South African court rules that racism is a criminal offence.
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Past cases indicate that verbal crimen injuria is not that serious. But a landmark sentence in South Africa has changed that.
Slums like Mathare in Nairobi are particularly prone to flooding.
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The health challenges that Nairobi can expect in the wake of heavy rains are largely preventable.
Limpopo Province, South Africa. Who owned this land?
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In practice, land expropriation in South Africa will be a matter of deciding which descendants of the dispossessed are entitled to it.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma at the 5th anniversary celebrations of the country’s National Development Plan.
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It’s important yet complicated to align national development plans with the SDGs. But it isn’t impossible.
South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, is on a mission to rebuild a battered party and state.
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South Africa’s new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has done well so far but more challenges relating to reigniting the economy lie ahead.
African leaders meet in Kigali to sign the continent’s free trade agreement.
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Continental free trade area’s potential impact includes boosting intra-Africa trade, manufacturing exports, job creation and poverty alleviation.
Despite the climate crisis, humans have continued emitting and intensively using fossil fuels.
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The climate crisis is a complex scientific problem. New systems have to be developed through democratic systemic reforms.
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, left, and his successor Muhammadu Buhari.
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Claims about Cambridge Analytica’s role in elections in Nigeria and Kenya have been overstated.
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The current range of TB diagnostic tests have various limitations like the sputum smear which is outdated, clumsy and takes long to process.
Antique ivory – defined as pre-1947 worked ivory – is an exception and can be traded in the UK and EU.
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The EU and UK are fuelling the illegal trade through their continuing sale of legal ivory items.
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Survivor’s guilt is arguably an instance of good character, an emotional expression.
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma.
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Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s proposed prosecution is a welcome reaffirmation of the principle that all are equal before the law.
Insects are constantly adapting to methods used to control them.
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Farmers needs a way to manage harmful insects without destroying the ecological balance.
The Hulene landfill in Maputo, Mozambique.
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Recent urban disasters in Ethiopia and Mozambique resulted in high female mortality, which was been largely ignored.
Nairobi’s current waste disposal system is fraught with major problems.
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Nairobi’s new governor should learn from the mistakes of the past
Protests are taking place in Ethiopia’s Amhara region an opposition stronghold.
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Ethiopia’s recent upheavals could potentially destabilise the entire Horn of Africa.
A Malagasy girl works on her laptop.
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Laptops have introduced the children of Nosy Komba in Madagascar to previously inaccessible tools.
Shipping vessels seen off the Djibouti port in the Gulf of Aden.
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A deal brokered by Ethiopia to develop the port at Berbera will have a ripple effect across the Horn of Africa.
Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi. Kenya’s health system is under huge pressure.
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Kenya spends millions treating women who have complications after unsafe abortions.
LiDAR, was used to “redraw” the remains of the city, along the lower western slopes of the Suikerbosrand hills near Johannesburg.
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Technology which located Mayan cities has been used to rediscover a southern African city from the 15th century.