Africa accounts for nearly 27% of the World Trade Organisation’s membership and 35% of members from developing countries, but an African has never run it.
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Peacebuilding – Analyses
As more choices become theoretically available to prospective parents, it’s important to understand their rights.
Investments are starting to help grow the African continent’s science preparedness.
Cameroon’s anglophone crisis is not simply a dispute between two feuding groups: a range of international actors have been architects of the current situation.
President Alassane Ouattara (78) has been blowing hot and cold on whether he’ll be seeking a third term.
The value of women to political tickets in Ghana is being recognised as more women are contesting elections at various levels.
South Africa would benefit greatly from the rich beneficiation experience of Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Kenya’s new internet balloons could help to get more Kenyans online and drive new industry.
Pollutants from industrial and domestic sources in the Lagos lagoon represent a cocktail of environmental contaminants.
Even after becoming an ‘ex’, former gang members must still negotiate gang associations and activities in the communities they remain in.
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Gender-based violence needs urgent attention in South Africa.
The taxi industry carries 75% of commuters daily, yet, unlike bus and train operators, does not benefit from government subsidies.
The proposed bill demonstrates the political will to address these preventable and avoidable morbidities and deaths.
There is concern over the growing influence of non-regional players in decision making at the regional bank.
There are multiple health risks in living close to waste sites, with substantial racial and income differences playing a major role.
Kenya’s urban poor lack enough food and the little they can afford is often unsafe and of poor nutritional value.
A leading sociologist explains how different dimensions of humanity produce different kinds of inequality - and what that does to the least equal in society.
The outsourcing of domestic work contributes to the race, class and gender stereotypes of domestic work. It has neither elevated the status nor improved the working conditions of domestic workers.
Mobile health service providers should empower their personnel through the provision of periodic training on good customer relations.
Police officers are also not, and are not expected to be, sworn translators or interpreters. This has serious implications for justice.
In Africa, people who report higher levels of exposure to disinformation also report lower levels of media trust.
Civil society activists responding to the COVID-19 social crisis face important challenges and tensions. They should tackle these choices head-on as they develop longer-term plans.
More financial services should target low-income households in South Africa.
Increased capital investment and productivity need not result in job losses. Government can use industrial policy to link investment incentives to job preservation and even job creation.
There are, scientifically, no human races. How did race come to have this power and this durability?