Knowledge about groundwater is scarce in some countries, and most development is informal and limited to shallow use.
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Groundwater has the potential to support broad economic, humanitarian and social development in sub-Saharan Africa, as it has in other regions globally.
US President Joe Biden’s policy of reengagement with Africa necessitates a more nuanced understanding of America.
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The US has about 40 centres that focus on African studies. Africa has only three looking the other way.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari (L) and South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa perhaps need to extend their hand shakes into the outer space.
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Nigeria-South Africa bi-national commission is a laudable initiative but missing the space cooperation element.
Representatives at the AU-EU Summit in Brussels.
Bolder action is needed if the African Union and the European Union are to find common ground on migration.
Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, a Swahili advocate.
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Over two millennia, Swahili has built bridges among people across Africa and into the diaspora.
Some African and European leaders at the last AU-EU summit in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, November 2017.
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The persistent power inequalities between Africa and Europe do not bode well for supposed change. This is why the latest summit is important.
Thousands of people have fled inter-ethnic clashes in northern Cameroon.
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The failures of nominally elected governments has denied leaders - as well as the democratic system - a vanguard popular constituency.
Freshly caught fish are pictured in a pirogue in Dakar, Senegal.
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Fisheries agreements favour the European Union and don’t do enough to protect African interests.
The African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Despite the criticisms the African Union has faced over the last two decades, it is far from being a docile follower of the orders of its member states.
African countries are still fixated on individual economic interests.
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African countries are struggling to implement the African Union’s protocol on free movement four years after its ratification.
A man walks on rail track near the bauxite factory of Guinea’s largest mining firm, Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee (CBG), at Kamsar, north of the capital Conakry.
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Successive regimes in Guinea have used mining to maintain the status quo.
US president Joe Biden and Democratic Republic of Congo president Felix Tshisekedi at the G20 summit in October 2021.
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Africa can make important contributions to the issues on the agenda: defending against authoritarianism; fighting corruption; and respect for human rights.
Refugees who fled Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict queue for contributions before sunrise in eastern Sudan.
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Despite the recognition of risk, it’s clear that the scope and severity of the Ethiopian crisis has caught many by surprise.
Inequality within countries is growing globally
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Ghanaian postcolonial intellectuals viewed terms such as development, neo-colonialism, self-reliance, and indigeneity as central to discussions of global inequalities.
More than 200 million Africans need at least one assistive device.
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The WHO estimates that only about 15% to 25% of those in need of assistive technology products in Africa have access to them.
Former Nigerian president General Olusegun Obasanjo.
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The AU’s choice of Olusegun Obasanjo as chief mediator raises even more questions about its partiality in Ethiopian conflict.
Relatives of the victims at Hissene Habre’s 2015 trial in Dakar, Senegal
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For Hissene Habre’s victims, the clock is ticking –many elderly ones have already died and will never see the compensation they were owed.
Colonel Mamady Doumbouya (C) and his team of Guinean special forces listen as he holds talks with religious leaders at the People’s Palace in Conakry on September 14, 2021.
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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.
General Mahamat Idriss Déby at the funeral of his father Chadian president Idriss Deby.
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Chad’s political institutions are corroded by corrupt politics to a degree that make true political reforms highly unlikely.
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The court has lived up to its promise in most cases, issuing some progressive and ground-breaking decisions and remedies.