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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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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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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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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Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations and Director of the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS), University of the Witwatersrand