Internationalisation enhances the quality of higher education and the graduates’ capabilities.
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Contributing to global knowledge, from the lens of local experience, can lead to solutions to universal problems such as inequality and climate change.
“shadowy groups” are using coordinated and elaborate tactics to spread disinformation on social media.
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Some states are adopting subtle and sophisticated ways of controlling or shaping political agendas and discussion.
Sudanese protesters gather outside the main entrance to the southern port in Port Sudan.
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The grievances of those instituting the blockade are justified, to some extent. But the blockade will harm the entire nation instead of only disturbing the ruling elites.
The World Health Organization (WHO) sign at its headquarters.
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Sexual exploitation and abuse requires an active rather than passive response.
A woman running her stall on Vilakazi Street, Orlando West. Soweto, Johannesburg.
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South Africa has a huge gender gap in terms of policies and interventions that would help women entrepreneurs.
Resource rich African countries do not have to fall victim to the resource curse.
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Natural resource abundance in a country should not translate into a curse.
Thousands of activists protest outside the South African parliament in Cape Town, following a week of brutal murders of young women in 2019.
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The problem of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa is structural and fuelled by inequalities that transect race, class, gender, sexuality and age.
Dead animal carcasses lie outside of the village of Dambas in Kenya during a drought in 2006.
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The next year appears likely to bring another sequence of La Niña-related droughts to eastern East Africa. The time to act is now or many will suffer.
The definition of child labour on cocoa farms in West Africa is still in dispute
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Child labour rates, and potentially other sensitive subjects, are not being measured accurately
Students at St Dominic Bukna Secondary School in Kisumu, Kenya, take their English test outdoors due to overcrowding in classrooms.
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More teachers need to be employed to cope with the increasing number of students in secondary schools.
Herder-farmer conflicts are on the rise in Ghana.
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Critics have said that ranching is environmentally unsustainable because it results in land degradation. There are other reasons it’s not the solution.
Rural universities are not prepared for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Governments must take urgent steps to revamp rural universities.
Late Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s, seen in this 2004 photograph, is one leader whose legacy will linger for long.
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Bouteflica’s two decades in power were the most damaging Algeria had experienced since independence from France in 1962.
Police officers parade suspected Boko Haram militants.
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Exploring many contemporary cases of radical behaviour showed they had one thing in common: how the risk of radicalisation may be linked to fractured relationships.
Freed inmates prepare for rehabilitation and integration.
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Nigeria’s plan of de-radicalising and integrating former Boko Haram terrorists should be fine-tuned to achieve more.
Nigeria’s Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, leader of the Northern region, Ahmadu Bello and the Governor General, Nnamdi Azikiwe, at the celebration of Nigeria’s independence, on October 1, 1960.
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Nigeria’s albatross is its political leadership and its limited capability to provide effective and modern governance.
A man removes water from a fishing boat in Idenau, Cameroon. Illegal activity by foreign fishing companies has depleted fishing stocks.
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Efforts to combat illegal fishing and fisheries crime must recognise the relationship between the sector and maritime security.
Bag sellers at Kumasi market in Ghana. Over 80% of workers on the continent work in the informal sector.
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While inequality is a global problem, its growth is most pronounced and the political, social and economic challenges it poses are most complex and pronounced in the global South.
Relatives of the victims at Hissene Habre’s 2015 trial in Dakar, Senegal
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For Hissene Habre’s victims, the clock is ticking –many elderly ones have already died and will never see the compensation they were owed.
Law Society of Kenya official Mercy Wambua holds a placard at the Supreme Court in Nairobi after a protest over government disobedience of court orders.
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Constitutional amendments sought to make it easy for Kenyatta and Odinga to craft a broad tribal coalition against the deputy president.