Activists protest outside the Ugandan Embassy in Washington DC on April 25, 2023.
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The Ugandan law is one of a spate of laws across Africa that are said to protect the heterosexual African family.
Africa’s secondary school enrolment rates still lag far behind those of other world regions’.
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The introduction of free education should follow a gradual process, starting with the lowest levels.
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African governments have more influence on China-funded projects than mainstream narratives acknowledge.
The oldest known footprint of our species, lightly ringed with chalk. It appears long and narrow because the trackmaker dragged their heel.
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This was an area in which early anatomically modern humans survived, evolved and thrived, before spreading out of Africa to other continents.
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Avoid ‘get-rich-quick’ schemes. They are, more often than not, bogus and fraudulent business ventures.
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Infrastructure that links mines to ports isn’t enough – it needs to be accompanied by policies that encourage productive investment in factories.
Two juvenile baboons passively share information about a food source when one sniffs the other’s muzzle while feeding.
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Early life environments and adult social bonds both have strong effects on survival.
Supporters at the launch of the Jubilee Party manifesto in Nairobi, Kenya, in June 2017.
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The fluidity of the country’s short-lived coalitions is a major cause of instability in Kenya.
The Burundian flag flies at the head of a convoy of buses moving refugees back home from Tanzania in 2019.
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Tanzania’s refugee policy in the 1990s is a good example of how geopolitics affects ordinary refugees.
Democracy cannot survive without free media.
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Finding the right balance between media freedom and limits remains one of the greatest challenges modern democracies face.
A Kenyan investigator at a mass gravesite in Shakahola in April 2023.
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The media attention, public backlash and judgement of the dead in the cult saga have made processing the loss difficult for families.
A demonstrator at Queer Republic protests in Nairobi, Kenya.
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A backlash against progress in gender and sexual rights is common.
Some African countries are seeking to replace orphanages with family-based care.
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Rather than protecting some of the world’s most vulnerable children, many of Africa’s orphanages are exploiting them.
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COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic have increased our attention on how individuals and systems cope with stress-inducing shocks.
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The proposed law reinforces unscientific conversion practices – or so-called reparative therapies – that don’t work.
South Sudanese soldiers prepare for deployment to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The region’s forces are seen as important in addressing the long-running conflict in the DRC – but their involvement is complicated.
A substantive amount of irrigation in Kenya is being implemented quietly by self-motivated farmers.
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Kenya’s irrigation development is more advanced than official records show because they exclude what some farmers are doing.
Activists agitate for equal rights for all in Nairobi, Kenya, in January 2020.
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The criminalisation of same-sex sexual relations among consenting adults in Kenya worsens social disparities and inequalities.
Journalists take cover during March 2023 protests in Kenya.
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There is a growing public wariness about the performance of the media, which are increasingly accused of being partisan.
Protesters face off with an anti-riot police officer in Nairobi, Kenya, in March 2023.
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Political protests in Kenya have become insular, sectarian, tribal and unashamedly personality driven.