Morocco football players celebrate with fans.
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African teams take the football world cup by storm.
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Africa contributes less than 1% of research worldwide on movement behaviours in children. This means that research on movement behaviours has largely excluded over 16% of the world’s population.
China’s population peaked, and is now falling.
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African countries can learn from China about how to design policies that anticipate major demographic changes in their societies.
Abdellah Taïa in Tangier, Morocco, in 2010.
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His books bring north Africa into conversation with sub-Saharan Africa about lived queer experiences.
While there’s no single solution to the crisis, a range of approaches can help to bolster children’s literacy.
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Political will is key to tackling pupils’ literacy struggles.
Moving beyond our dependency on oil requires developing viable alternative energies.
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Political will is necessary for governments to move away from oil. But alternative energies are not all that they seem, and should be considered carefully beyond the appearance of sustainability.
Delegates at an African Union summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in 2022.
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Member states need to arrive at binding, transparent and enforceable priorities to see progress.
Sahrawi protesters demand an end to hostilities by Morocco in the occupied territory of Western Sahara at the Square of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland in 2021.
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Western Sahara remains largely under occupation and without any kind of international human rights monitoring.
But who will go down as the greatest?
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The World Cup is drawing to an end. Will the tournament be remembered for a Messi moment to rival that of Maradona’s? Or as a breakthrough yeah for African nations?
Youssef En-Nesyri of Morocco celebrates his winning goal.
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Defences win championships - and Morocco has all that it takes to lift the trophy.
Rising above Spain is one thing … but can Morocco repeat the feat again and again and again?
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Shock results happen, but that doesn’t make it any easier for lower-ranked nations to rise up the ranks, a soccer economist explains.
The West African coastline is a source of livelihood for millions.
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There is only a single mooring managed by French researchers that monitors the impacts of climate change on West African Canary Current.
80% of malaria deaths are in children younger than five.
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There are many reasons that malaria is so persistent in Africa. Four of them are poverty, human movement, resistance and climate change.
Thalassotitan teeth.
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Fossils of a giant killer mosasaur have been discovered, alongside the fossilised remains of its prey.
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African countries need to be more deliberate in developing space capabilities.
Protesters demand the freedom of the Sahrawi population.
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Long considered a frozen conflict, the Western Sahara dispute roared back to life in late 2020, reviving old wounds and inflicting fresh ones.
Multiple champions Nigeria, in black, were beaten by Morocco in the Wafcon semi-final.
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The Wafcon final on Saturday is proof of the development of the women’s game on the continent - and of mining star players abroad.
Sadio Mané (left) with Mohamed Salah in 2018 when both played for Liverpool.
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The Caf African Player of the Year is named on 21 July – but it’s only one of eight trophies being handed out.
Workers fill bags with fertiliser in Morocco’s northern city of Meknes.
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How well Morocco manages challenges to its fertiliser industry will affect its own development and the stability of food supplies across the world.
Nigerian star forward Asisat Oshoala has suffered injuries in Morocco.
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The thorny issue of testosterone testing has made news, not just the growing skills on the field.