Sita Ghimire, Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute Hub
This grass may hold the key to improving milk yields from cows kept by small-scale farmers across the African continent.
Mauritanian soldiers stand guard near the border with Mali in the fight against jihadists in Africa’s Sahel region.
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Jihadi groups take advantage of endemic poverty, inequality, high unemployment levels, illiteracy, ethnic divisions, and poor governance to spread their campaign of violence in the Sahel region.
The core of the objections, whether they are about vaccinations, lockdowns, social distancing, or mask wearing, seems to concern an apparent erosion of personal liberty.
Parents of abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School wail in Kaduna, Nigeria.
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Prior to the secession of South Sudan, the rural livelihoods of people living in the 11 states were dependent on free trade and movement across the boundaries.
People who fled the war in Tigray gather around in a temporarily built internally displaced people.
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The biggest challenge to the health system is the war in Tigray and other insecurity all over the country. Conflict has made COVID-19 prevention and vaccination efforts impossible in many areas.
Key cashew producing countries in Africa are rolling out strategies to increase production and processing of raw cashew nuts.
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James Boafo, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) e Kristen Lyons, The University of Queensland
Ghana is losing out the booming global cashew industry in terms
of job and revenue generations.
Military intervention by Rwanda and SADC only buys time for Mozambique to address lack of development in its northern region.
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Rwanda’s military intervention in Mozambique’s war against Islamic insurgents has included a request that Mozambique rein in Rwandan opposition members on its soil
Colonel Mamady Doumbouya (C) and his team of Guinean special forces listen as he holds talks with religious leaders at the People’s Palace in Conakry on September 14, 2021.
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Any recognition of the coup could incentivise future ones. Yet Alpha Condé can’t simply be restored to office, sweeping under the carpet the dubious basis on which he has retained power.
Joao Lourenco, the President of Angola.
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The optimism Angolan president João Lourenço’s election generated four years ago has dwindled as electoral promise after another have failed to materialise.
The Chairperson of the African Union, Moussa Faki Mahamat, speaks during a briefing in Addis Ababa.
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Just as Algeria and South Africa could not stop Morocco’s entry into the AU, neither can they stop Israeli accreditation.
Residents of Masiphumelele informal settlement in Cape Town gather to collect food parcels provided by One South Africa Movement representative.
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It is becoming increasingly clear that South Africa’s policymakers can no longer ignore the country’s obligations in terms of international, regional and national human rights law.
Young people wait to register at a South African university in 2012. They are bearing the brunt of high levels of unemployment.
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