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Scientific knowledge is a critical driver for human health and wellbeing, economic development and environmental sustainability.
Violent protests in Dakar, Senegal, after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko is arrested on a rape charge.
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The Senegalese culture of discretion, called “sutura”, inhibits survivors of sexual violence from publicly denouncing perpetrators.
Tanzania’s Mbwana Samatta (right) celebrates scoring his team’s second goal during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations match with Kenya in Cairo.
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National sports victories increase nationalism and national pride, but can also influence attitudes towards refugees.
Delft after protests against the local government. One of South Africa’s first social impact bonds funded a project in the town.
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Two social impact bonds that have concluded in South Africa showed that they got innovation going where it was desperately needed.
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The way foreign aid is disbursed needs to be revisited to avoid the traps it’s fallen into in the past.
An unaccompanied foreign minor does lessons provided by a volunteer in a park in Toulouse, France, October 2017.
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Governments and agencies should prepare second chance opportunities for formal education as emergency situations may last for several years and create a backlog of education.
Despite its numerous benefits, biodiversity is still not well appreciated in Nigeria.
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Nigeria must improve biodiversity awareness among its citizens to stem animal poaching and halt biodiversity loss.
Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa as well as of the ruling party, the African National Congress.
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Ramaphosa is set to go down in the annals of history as an ANC president who presided over a tumultuous epoch in the party’s evolution.
Trade partnerships rarely work in the West African region.
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EU trade partnership is more important to some African countries than regional or continental trade.
Rob Davies, former South African trade and industry minister.
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Rob Davies is critical of economic policy, starting with the Mandela administration. He reserves particular criticism for its macroeconomic policy framework introduced in 1996.
Ghana is struggling to curb a surge in car accidents.
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The inability to curb road accidents in Ghana is tied to colonial and neocolonial legacies.
General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, who heads Chad’s transitional military council.
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The struggle among elites has not resulted in efforts to improve the material lives of ordinary people unconnected to the political elite.
Entrepreneurs at this popular Lagos cane furniture market could do a lot more for their business with the use of social media.
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Nigerian small business owners highlight the factors that limit full potential of social media use in commerce.
A US soldier carries his belongings to a waiting truck at a military camp on the outskirts of Niamey, Niger.
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Reforms that will entrench constitutionalism, the rule of law, and political inclusion will solve Africa’s security problems, not moving the US Africa Command headquarters to the continent.
Olu Maintain’s hit song Yahooze is an ode to cybercrime.
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Poverty aside, cultural factors like the influence of hip hop songs may also play a role in making a life of cybercrime attractive to young people.
Electoral reforms are important before Nigerians go to the polls in 2023
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Nigeria must fix its electoral system before the next general elections in 2023.
A child walks along a road in Mathare informal settlement.
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Residents of Nairobi’s informal settlements use names as a way of voicing the issues that they struggle with every day.
The move towards an open process for appointing judges is unprecedented in Lesotho.
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The appointment of judges has hitherto been an obscure and oftentimes clandestine affair. This has produced incompetent judges and led to claims that the judiciary is beholden to the executive.
Social reintegration and personal reconciliation should be paramount in post-conflict Cote d'Ivoire
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Based on the Cote d'Ivoire experience, the United Nations must reconsider its emphasis on coordinating reintegration and transitional justice irrespective of the post-war context.
Rwanda’s presidential couple at the 2021 genocide commemoration.
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A survey of the commemorations since 2014 reveals the politicking behind the writing of history and Rwanda’s place in the world.
A community health worker attends to a baby during a free mother and child clinic for the public.
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Our findings provide an additional tool for determining what to prioritise, where to target and when to intervene.
Image of a polling station sign in Kasama, Northern Province, in 2015.
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Distrust of the electoral commission runs deep in the opposition, which may well lead to increased tensions ahead of and following the polls.
Renters in Ghana are at the mercy of landlords.
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The government of Ghana needs a more creative solution to the problem of advance rent payment
Karoha Langwane (right) teaching a tracker to collect data on a CyberTracker PDA/GPS device.
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The term “citizen science” is intended to widen the network of people whose contribution to science is acknowledged. But the word “citizen” can be problematic.
Waste reclaimers do a far more effective job of collecting waste for recycling in Johannesburg.
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Waste reclaimers save South African municipalities up to R748 million a year in landfill space. Without them, the country’s recycling economy would not exist.