Children whose families benefit from social grants and family support interventions enjoy better health, nutrition and schooling.
The UN doesn’t have the magic formula to end tensions in Burundi. It’s up to the country’s leadership.
It's increasingly difficult to manage diseases in inner cities.
Building a fiscally capable state won’t bring benefits in the short term but can build taxpayers confidence.
New analysis indicates that a strict beneficiation policy might not lead to optimal developmental outcomes.
The African Peer Review Mechanism got off to a good start, but enthusiasm soon waned.
Nelson Chamisa has the opportunity to foster peace, tolerance and democracy within Zimbabwe’s main opposition party.
The debate on sanctions on Zimbabwe has been lost in the southern African region and on the continent.
While the 2019 presidential election wasn’t perfect, it showed that democracy is gradually being entrenched in Nigeria.
Much deeper social forces underlie the struggles within the governing ANC and society over the shape of the economy.
The visibility of #MeToo makes it easy to overlook the very powerful campaigns against sexual violence in Africa.
If the pattern of drought continues in South Africa it’s likely to affect the country’s financial standing too.
Nigeria, like many emerging countries, needs to educate its women at the same rate it does its men to enhance entrepreneurship.
Nigeria’s high unemployment rate has created a bloated and unproductive informal sector.
With the exception of Somali piracy, counter-measures have failed to stop transnational criminal networks from taking to the seas.
In the end, Buhari possibly won simply because the Peoples Democratic Party wasn’t offering a viable alternative.
The legacy of colonialism’s unfinished business has now migrated to the Indian Ocean.
Disinviting a person to speak on a university campus adds up to abandoning freedom and speech.
While refugees in Rwanda have the right to freedom of movement and work, in practice it’s difficult for them.
South Africa needs to wean itself off coal in a way that protects jobs and the environment.
Cape Town’s draft strategy on water supply is out for comment, but important elements are missing from it.
Across Africa less than 10% of the population is connected to a sewer system. But the waste could be used elsewhere.
A Lancet commission has come up with a new sustainable diet that’s supposed to be the way forward.
Nigeria has a massive battle tackling Lassa fever.
There’s a lot of evidence to suggest South Africa should grow its impact investment market.