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Almost 80 million Nigerians do not have access to electricity and its erratic supply is costing the economy an estimated $29 billion annually. Nigeria’s abundant sunlight could be the solution.
Historically, Khoisan people from southern Africa were used as scientific subjects in racist experiments.
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Modern western science must be stripped of the epistemological and methodological privileges it enjoys.
Academics, farmers and entrepreneurs in Malawi integrate their expertise.
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Local based approaches from farmers, researchers and entrepreneurs prove successful for innovation in Malawi.
A Kenyan LGBT activist campaigning for a change to the country’s Penal Code.
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The High Court’s ruling goes against the trend of greater liberalisation in a number of African countries.
Private security guard in Nairobi.
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There’s been a rise in partnerships, over the past 20 years, between private security companies and police units in Kenya
International unemployment standards ignore a big part of South Africa’s labour market problems.
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South Africa’s embrace of international conventions has buttressed the country’s reputation in statistical circles. But these global standards prove a poor fit for the country.
Health workers burying a child who died of Ebola in the DRC’s North Kivu province.
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The grim facts are undisputed: the current Ebola outbreak is expanding, largely unabated.
Burnt shacks after a fire in a Mumbai slums. Adolescents are deeply affected by traumatic events in their lives.
The data suggest that boys experience as much disadvantage as girls.
Nigerians living in Spain rally against Boko Haram insurgents who abducted over 200 girls from a school in Chibok, northeast of the country.
Kidnapping in Nigeria has blossomed into a burgeoning criminal enterprise.
Eight candidates are running for president in Malawi’s election.
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It’s an achievement in itself that Malawi is holding its sixth multi-party national elections since its transition from dictatorship under former President Kamuzu Banda.
Protesters outside the army headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan.
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The African Union’s policy offers no wriggle room for a discretionary response to coups, a scourge that imperils the consolidation of democracy.
Glen Mashinini, the head of South Africa’s electoral commission announces the 2019 elections results.
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The recent election has shown again that the extremism which worries democrats in much of the world has little traction in South Africa.
A view of Sandton City, the richest square mile in Africa, towering over Alexandra township, in Johannesburg.
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In matters of policy-making and governing, understanding the systemic complexity of interrelated forces is crucial to avoiding failure.
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In Ethiopia, boys are more likely to go to school than girls are. Role models can change this.
Kumasi in Ghana is one of the world’s fastest growing cities.
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Africa is home to the world’s fastest growing cities. However, poor governance has robbed the continent of the benefits of people and firms clustering together.
Soldiers patrol the Nigerian city of Jos, in the central Plateu State, in a bid to quell religious violence.
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In Nigeria, the government often uses the army to restore order and to keep the peace, largely because the police are unable to contain internal violent conflicts.
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In some Nigerian universities, wealthy female students engage in trasnactional sex for pleasure, while those that needed financial support did it for the money.
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema at an election rally.
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The EFF’s militarised aesthetic is more than a sideshow. It forms a key part of its spectacle-oriented brand of politics.
Legislation can guard against political interference and maladministration.
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Over the past few years, heads of department and chief financial officers in South Africa have been placed under enormous pressure by politicians to bend compliance rules.
Isis claims attacks in Beni province of northern Kivu, eastern Congo, close to the border to Uganda.
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Links between groups within the Kivu province and the Islamic state are not new.
Malawian villages operate according to strict hierarchies. NGOs can unsettle these.
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The mere presence of NGOs, no matter their size or aims, inadvertently reduced the legitimacy of local village headmen.
Local communities have taken advantage of campaign trail visits by leaders such as President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Community radio stations have thrown themselves into the political discussion with gusto.
Protesters in Sudan demanding the end of military rule.
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The immediate cause of the economic crisis that brought many thousands of Sudanese onto the streets and continued beyond al-Bashir’s downfall lay in the structure of the economy itself.
Durban’s Bhambayi township was among the areas wrecked by heavy rains, mudslides and winds that have left more than 300 people dead.
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Rebuilding informal settlements after a disaster must be done through learning from those who live in the settlements.
Online activities enable Sudan’s women to work at home without jeopardising social expectations.
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Women in Sudan have been resisting the controls placed on them for some time - by using their smart phones and social media to trade.