An initiate parades through his village in Mbale, Uganda.
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Sacred sites where rituals are performed by the community should be protected as living archives that house local heritage.
Members of Ghana’s parliament during a break from electing a new leader of parliament. Only 14% of parliamentarians are women.
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Women MPs point to a toxic environment in which a politics of insults, ridicule and rumour work against having more women in political offices.
Survivors of the violence in Benishangul-Gumuz gather in a circle at a displaced persons camp in Chagni, Ethiopia in December 2020.
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It’s a confluence of local, regional, national and, possibly, foreign interests.
Financial inclusion in Nigeria must target smallholder farmers.
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Sustainable financial inclusion in Nigeria requires interventions that strengthen financial capability, participation and well-being of small-scale farmers.
Bank buildings rise above the business district of Lagos. Banks must effectively communicate the impact of their engagement with women.
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Banks should consider and integrate women empowerment principles into their corporate social responsibility initiatives.
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In the past five years, the rise of banditry and terror attacks have had devastating effects on children in northern Nigeria.
Ghanaian migrant farmers are bearing the brunt of climate change.
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Rural migrant farmers are bearing the brunt of climate change in Ghana
Countries must develop more efficient adaptation strategies to make food supply systems more climate-resilient.
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Large-scale droughts can have cascading impacts on food security. They can reduce yield, increase food prices, trigger changes in consumption and lead to unstable supply.
Many countries in Africa are dependent on commodities export.
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Ghana remains heavily dependent on primary commodity exports for foreign exchange earnings.
Protesters clash with police in February in Cape Town over student funding.
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Instead of being a democratic right and legitimate form of expression, protests have increasingly been framed as threats to national security.
Two men work their maize crop in Uganda’s Kapchorwa district.
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The government intervening to ensure food safety will increase awareness among producers and consumers.
The judicial inquiry into grand corruption heard shocking details of the abuse of power at South Africa’s preeminent spy agency.
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Globally, intelligence services trade in secrets and conduct covert operations. But this does not exempt them from public scrutiny, parliamentary oversight, and audit processes.
Protesters march towards a line of Kenyan riot police during post-election violence in Nairobi in 2007.
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It is often assumed that patrimonial beliefs fuel electoral malpractice whereas civic ones challenge it, but this is an oversimplification.
President Paul Biya during a visit to China in 2018.
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Biya’s long rule has robbed Cameroon of its credibility as a stable and peaceful country.
Students from the public school where more than 200 girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 on their first day back at the school.
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Research shows that radio and mobile technologies can support a swift and sensitive response to educational disruption.
Unemployment in South Africa is chronically high.
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Joblessness has become a fixture of the South African economy. Understanding the patterns of who is out of work and for how long is key to designing policies to address the problem.
People are faced with a lot of misinformation about both GMOs and COVID.
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For anyone who has worked on crop improvement in Africa over the last three decades, the flood of misinformation around vaccines evokes an eerie sense of déjà vu.
Commemoration rituals are superficial tools to deal with the injustices of the Nigerian-Biafran war.
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The crisis of statehood and citizenship confronting Nigeria can only be tackled by committed work around political justice.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa (right) shakes hands with Rwandan President Paul Kagame (left) at the Commonwealth summit in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2013.
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Despite its Imperial origins, the Commonwealth has a strong radical tradition. If it wants to remain relevant to Africa in the 21st Century, that radicalism needs to be rediscovered.
A young Ethiopian refugee carries water containers at the Um Raquba camp in Sudan in November 2020.
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Adolescent girls can contribute to social change, economic growth, sustainable development and peaceful societies. They should be able to live their lives free from violence.