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Africa contributes less than 1% of research worldwide on movement behaviours in children. This means that research on movement behaviours has largely excluded over 16% of the world’s population.
The Blue Nile river passes through the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
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Hundreds of rivers are shared between two or more countries – this could be a source of cooperation or conflict.
Pro-resistance social media pages share photos of graffiti like this.
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From the Arab Spring to the Belarus Awakening and the ongoing Iranian protest Women, Life, Freedom, female-centered imagery and social media are battlegrounds of resistance and oppression.
Jewelry of the kandake Amanishakheto from a pyramid at Meroe.
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The way many Americans think about racial identity today is hard to map onto the complex history of ancient Egypt and ancient Nubia.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington on Dec. 15, 2022.
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As the United States government builds economic and security ties with African countries, some of those countries are encouraging African Americans to establish social and economic ties in Africa.
While there’s no single solution to the crisis, a range of approaches can help to bolster children’s literacy.
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Political will is key to tackling pupils’ literacy struggles.
Cleopatra (centre) is played by a black actress, Adele James, in the new Netflix docudrama series.
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The ethnicity outcry says more about today’s preoccupations with race than ancient Egypt’s.
Jordanians being evacuated from Sudan amid fighting between two factions.
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Sudan’s location and natural resources have attracted international partners keen to benefit either geopolitically or economically.
Sudan army soldiers are fighting a rival paramilitary group.
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Violence in Sudan threatens to throw the troubled nation into chaos. A scholar of the region explains what is going on and what’s at stake.
Protesters face off with an anti-riot police officer in Nairobi, Kenya, in March 2023.
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Political protests in Kenya have become insular, sectarian, tribal and unashamedly personality driven.
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Aquifers are highly prevalent across Africa – but they’re not always going to be usable.
Burkina Faso servicemen hold portraits during the burial of soldiers killed in an Al-Qaeda attack in Gaskinde in October 2022.
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The spike in violence was marked by a 68% increase in fatalities involving civilians.
Hellenistic soldiers as depicted in the Nile mosaic of Palestrina.
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We uncovered evidence of a rebellion so significant, that events such as Cleopatra’s affairs and the rise of Christianity may not have come to pass without it.
The building blocks of the Giza pyramids contain trillions of fossilised remains of an ocean-dwelling organism called foraminifera.
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Fossils aren’t just pieces of the past that allow scientists to look backwards. They can play a role in modern policy decision-making, too.
Delegates at an African Union summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in 2022.
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Member states need to arrive at binding, transparent and enforceable priorities to see progress.
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South Sudan’s diplomatic support around energy and water is much sought after in Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan.
Former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 2019.
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He failed to understand that the struggle for justice and freedom in southern Africa was changing the world - and diplomacy itself.
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Artificial Intelligence comes with a litany of ethical risks and dilemmas. Some are universal, but some are unique to particular countries, like South Africa.
Open and distance learning were specifically designed to allow anyone, anywhere to access higher education.
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African governments, policy makers and education sectors could learn a great deal from other developing countries.
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood protest at a rally in 2013.
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The Muslim Brotherhood once held the reins of power in Egypt. Now it faces internal splits, government repression and dwindling support.