Informal employment is significant in sub-Saharan Africa. The plight of informal workers needs to be highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Access to water and other sanitation infrastructure depended on income level.
This grass may hold the key to improving milk yields from cows kept by small-scale farmers across the African continent.
Jihadi groups take advantage of endemic poverty, inequality, high unemployment levels, illiteracy, ethnic divisions, and poor governance to spread their campaign of violence in the Sahel region.
In principle, most conflicts end with peace negotiations. In the Ethiopian situation, it is a matter of when, not if.
South Africa has seen a fair number of whistleblowers raising the alarm on irregularities and corruption – the most recent was murdered.
The core of the objections, whether they are about vaccinations, lockdowns, social distancing, or mask wearing, seems to concern an apparent erosion of personal liberty.
Understanding what drives conflict, and tension, is the starting point for developing paths to peace.
Religious organisations have the potential to draw people out of their private, racially segregated lives, into a safe social space.
Corruption and fraud make a few rich households richer. But the already poor and low-skilled lose their jobs and become poorer.
Prior to the secession of South Sudan, the rural livelihoods of people living in the 11 states were dependent on free trade and movement across the boundaries.
The biggest challenge to the health system is the war in Tigray and other insecurity all over the country. Conflict has made COVID-19 prevention and vaccination efforts impossible in many areas.
Ghana is losing out the booming global cashew industry in terms
of job and revenue generations.
Rwanda’s military intervention in Mozambique’s war against Islamic insurgents has included a request that Mozambique rein in Rwandan opposition members on its soil
Any recognition of the coup could incentivise future ones. Yet Alpha Condé can’t simply be restored to office, sweeping under the carpet the dubious basis on which he has retained power.
The optimism Angolan president João Lourenço’s election generated four years ago has dwindled as electoral promise after another have failed to materialise.
Just as Algeria and South Africa could not stop Morocco’s entry into the AU, neither can they stop Israeli accreditation.
It is becoming increasingly clear that South Africa’s policymakers can no longer ignore the country’s obligations in terms of international, regional and national human rights law.
Can the structural barriers to low-skilled employment growth be overcome?
Chad’s political institutions are corroded by corrupt politics to a degree that make true political reforms highly unlikely.
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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