Mahamat Idriss Deby, right, greets his brother Zakaria during the state funeral for their father Chadian President Idriss Deby.
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The recent spate of military takeovers, most recently in Chad, highlights a developing trend by armed forces in Africa which overtly subvert constitutional governance.
Renters in Ghana are at the mercy of landlords.
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The government of Ghana needs a more creative solution to the problem of advance rent payment
Karoha Langwane (right) teaching a tracker to collect data on a CyberTracker PDA/GPS device.
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The term “citizen science” is intended to widen the network of people whose contribution to science is acknowledged. But the word “citizen” can be problematic.
Waste reclaimers do a far more effective job of collecting waste for recycling in Johannesburg.
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Waste reclaimers save South African municipalities up to R748 million a year in landfill space. Without them, the country’s recycling economy would not exist.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the Nigerian Senate in 2015. There are very few women representatives.
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The equitable participation of women in public life is essential to building and sustaining strong, vibrant democracies.
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.
Kenyan journalists and members of civil society marching on the World Press Freedom Day in 2018.
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No matter what tactics are used to muzzle, restrict, limit, or censor information, trustworthy information that serves the public good can still find its way to those who matter most: the citizens.
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.
The Kariba Dam, a hydroelectric dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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The socio-economic and political factors that keep conventional energy out of reach of the poor can do the same with renewable energy.
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.
A teeming number of Nigerians of working age are unemployed.
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Nigeria’s economy is in bad shape. This has affected its ability to create jobs.
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.