An avocado orchard in Tzaneen, South Africa. Food insecurity in the country went up in the wake of COVID-19.
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Government support for farmers, higher rainfall and grain imports have helped sub-Saharan Africa stave off food insecurity, but the region isn’t out of the woods yet.
Women make smoked fishes - locally called Okporoko - at Egede informal settlement in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
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The contributions that women in West Africa’s fisheries make to the sector are widely un(der)paid, undervalued and largely invisible.
Mural by Gabriel Marques, Dublin.
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It took black folk unimaginable resources of creativity, humanity, humour and generosity to detoxify the N-word for their own collective sanity.
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Digital media shutdowns in Africa will lead to higher economic costs and greater public outrage.
Thomas Sankara still casts a long shadow in Burkina Faso.
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Burkina Faso is still in the throes of chaos decades after the assasination of the charismatic president
Increasing poverty is forcing more women to become farmers in Adamawa State.
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Drug abuse among women farmers in Adamawa State, north east Nigeria, is rising.
Students take their test outside due to their overcrowded class room in Kisumu, Kenya.
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Far too often it is still an education for some and not for everybody.
Idriss Déby, the late former president of Chad.
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Déby’s legacy is one of violent beginnings and fake democratic shows
A soldier looking over a maize field where Somali farmers are tending a crop in Dollow, northern Somalia.
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For decades Somalia has been in a near-constant state of food insecurity. This is due to a combination of stagnant crop production, a rapidly increasing population and political unrest.
Input subsidies aren’t helping women like Malawian farmer Grace Stenala.
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Malawi’s revamped subsidy regime is designed to reach many more farmers. But a granular look shows that women aren’t reaping the benefits.
Developing a viable confectionery industry is essential for Africa’s cocoa giants.
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The importance of raw cocoa beans to Ghana’s foreign exchange earnings is derailing the development of a viable chocolate industry
Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari (left) and late Chadian president Idriss Deby during a 2019 summit of Sahel-Saharan States.
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Chadian president Idriss Deby’s death has serious implications for stability in the troubled Lake Chad Basin and the broader Sahel region of West Africa.
Computer village, Lagos, is one of those places where Igbo entrepreneurship is practiced and passed on to the next generation.
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The Igbos, like most other indigenous groups, believe in maintaining a legacy of not just their language, but other values, including trans-generational business legacies.
Modern secession claims find their roots in the Trusteeship System of the UN.
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Colonial powers framed secessionism as a threat to state-building and not as an expression of self-determination
Protesters descended on the seat of government in 2017 to demand former South African president Jacob Zuma resign.
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To build a political culture that supports democracy in South Africa, civic education needs to move beyond voter education.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court is considered the bedrock of the country’s democratic order. Here it is in session in 2019.
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The growing defence of South Africa’s beleaguered constitutional democracy is bolstered by African thinker Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book.
The grand designs of the major political and military actors lack an important ingredient: the views and the hopes of ordinary Somalis.
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The political and security order which numerous foreign actors have been investing in has produced marginal benefits for the population.
South African chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s term ends in September.
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The judicial process in South Africa is hugely contested. This places an exaggerated burden on the courts to act with maximum independence and impartiality.
Health workers fumigate Lagos streets during the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria.
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It’s common to find medical doctors providing supportive health services and in the process getting distracted from their main clinical job concerns.
A Somali refugee shops for fresh produce at a market in the Hagadera camp within the sprawling Dadaab complex.
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By securitising refugees, in this case accusing them of instigating terror, the Kenyan government is compromising their social, economic and political rights as set out in international law.
Nelson Mandela, first president of a democratic South Africa, wanted human rights to guide the country’s foreign policy.
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South Africa frequently invokes its celebrated constitution that is based on human rights, but has often failed to live up to its ideals.
Supporters of ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM - Party of the Revolution) drive with the party’s flag on their heads on a motorcycle.
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There may be significant limitations to the political reform that can be realised by new president Samia Suluhu Hassan.
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Tension between the government’s economic and public health priorities is preventing stronger fiscal measures to address nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases.
A student going through his work at the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
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As the internet continues to alter traditional journalism practices, Nigerian universities must adapt to the times.
Cairo.
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Africa’s urban challenges are increasingly well known and documented. But the amount of data produced on urban Africa still pales in comparison to other parts of the world.