Juvenile offenders face stigma once released.
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Ghana needs a more effective approach to juvenile justice reform that considers the long-term impact of detention on youth offenders.
Learners in a school for about 5,000 children in Nguenyyiel Refugee Camp in Ethiopia’s Gambela region in 2019.
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Ethiopia’s unmet refugee education reforms highlight the ways in which bureaucratic structures and interests can shape policy.
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The inequitable distribution of the benefits and harms of the food system is a violation of the constitutional right to food.
The reasons that explain why girls don’t get into secondary begin in primary school.
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Deep-seated cultural practices – such as female genital mutilation and child marriage – prevent girls from making progress in school.
Guerillas from the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) pictured in 1990.
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Policies that reduce poverty, inequality and socioeconomic insecurity lower the incentive to engage in or tolerate terrorism.
A horse stands before solar panels used to power water pumps along the Afir agricultural irrigation canal in Egypt.
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African policymakers need to access science-based information that can directly inform future planning.
Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Abuja in July 2022.
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Once in office, the new president will face a myriad of challenges, chief of which is insecurity.
Winky D’s hit Ibotso has seen him removed from stage by police.
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In his music, he positions himself within the people’s struggles and identifies with them.
Zambia president Hakainde Hichilema and US vice-president Kamala Harris in Lusaka.
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President Hichilema’s self-styled ‘chief marketing officer’ approach has unlocked new investments from a diverse mix of partners.
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Slow growth of exports and tourism and a resurgence of global inflation have created dollar shortages in some African economies.
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Making the green energy transition a success requires governments to pay attention to environmental factors and socioeconomic imperatives.
An armed soldier at a polling station during the counting of votes in March 2018 in Freetown.
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Though public opinion surveys offer some hope, there are several concerns for democracy’s consolidation in West Africa.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, left, hosts his Tanzanian counterpart during a state visit in March 2023.
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Ties between the two nations date back to Tanzania’s solidarity with the anti-apartheid struggle.
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.
Begging is a strategy often used by homeless people.
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Food insecurity remains a major health problem. And poorer households are disproportionately affected.
Farmland razed by Eritrean soldiers at a village in Ahferom district, Central zone, Tigray.
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Typically, humanitarian concerns are prioritised following a war. But the environment must also get attention so that societies can produce food and goods to rebuild their lives.
The High Court in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Strengthening the judiciary would ensure a better democratic outcome.
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Ghana’s flawed democracy has failed to establish mechanisms to effectively control corruption.
Paul Mashatile, the deputy president of South Africa.
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Mashatile could be the new broom that sweeps clean. Ramaphosa’s apparent confidence in him suggests that he has some latitude to do so.
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The public bears the suffering and costs of the global epidemic of noncommunicable diseases, and the rapidly accelerating climate emergency.
Ghana’s e-levy has hit traders in the country’s informal sector the hardest.
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Domestic resource mobilisation cannot be achieved by over-taxing the livelihoods of the most vulnerable workers in the informal sector.