Flooding is projected to increase in eastern Africa.
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The report projects an increase in mean temperatures and hot extremes across the continent. Worryingly the rate of temperature increase across the continent exceeds the global average.
President of Angola Joao Lourenco in Berlin, Germany in 2018. The powers of the president remain intact.
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The Angolan political elite lost an extraordinary opportunity to improve significantly the country’s constitution.
A road running through Kigali, Rwanda.
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These results emphasise the high significance of the transport sector in Kigali’s air pollution levels and the need for further action to address air pollution from the sector.
Nigeria recently started commercial operation of a China-assisted railway linking the southwestern cities of Lagos and Ibadan.
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In his new book, Nigeria Democracy Without Development: How To Fix It, international political economist Omano Edigheji explains why democracy has not led to development in Nigeria.
Humanitarian agencies are often thrust into the heart of contentious crises without easy or quick solutions.
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When humanitarian agencies are obliged to stop operations by political decision or because of huge physical insecurity, the poorest and most vulnerable succumb first through starvation and disease.
Might the 2021 Zambian elections usher in another period of economic growth?
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Whoever wins the elections will face two key challenges: reviving the country’s democratic credentials and stimulating the economy.
Hakainde Hichilema (C), leader of the Zambia opposition party United Party for National Development.
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Frustration is growing among opposition supporters who believe the last election was stolen.
Hot mix asphalt plants should not be built within residential areas and around water resources.
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There have been instances of heavy metals pollution in Nigeria that led to public health crisis.
A woman sells vegetables on the street in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia in June 2021.
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To avoid a repeat of one of the worst humanitarian crises of recent times, Ethiopia needs all-inclusive national dialogue.
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Eurobonds are costly for governments. But they are also attractive because investors buy them without preconditions.
History is better taught to young, impressionable minds from an early age.
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Nigeria should stop showing contempt for history as a subject, profession or topic of discussion.
“Creativity machines” are capable of independent and complex functioning, so they can invent things.
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The decision is supported by the government’s policy environment in recent years. This has aimed to increase innovation, and views technology as a way to achieve this.
A protest organised by the Congress of South African Trade Unions in South Africa. The question is: on whose behalf does the union movement advocate?
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In this moment of crisis, South Africa urgently needs decisive action. But all too often South Africans of all political stripes seem trapped in stale discourses.
Bush meat consumption is enjoying a renaissance in Ghana.
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For conservationists and the government, religion and culture could serve to discourage the overharvesting of bushmeat from the wild
Ghana’s real estate boom has focused on luxury housing.
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In the formal real estate industry, there is an emerging narrative that affordable housing deficits in African cities represent a vast untapped market
The distribution of agricultural land in South Africa remains deeply unequal.
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An agency could accelerate land reform by removing the process from political and bureaucratic control.
The fruit from a marula tree.
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Wider acceptance of indigenous plants could help reduce over-reliance on exotic food varieties.
A worker carries a water container at a newly installed internally displaced person camp in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia.
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Africa needs to embrace a new approach that focuses on what countries in an embattled region – as a ‘community’ of regional states – can do to intervene.
Marie Coetzee and her husband Fanie Coetzee live in the poverty stricken shanty town community of Munsieville, west of Johannesburg.
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There is no substance to the view that poor people are lazy and prefer to live on handouts from the state rather than seek work.
Innovation in food systems and agricultural research is critical for African countries.
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Stronger agricultural R&D systems will enable agriculture to power Africa’s transformation.