Ethiopian protestors march down 42nd Street in New York during a “It’s my Dam” protest on March 11, 2021.
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Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt and their neighbours could deploy large-scale solar and wind farms, connected by a regionally integrated power grid.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s campaign against corruption is being undermined from within the governing ANC.
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Ramaphosa’s rise to power in 2018 offered South Africans hope that he would end corruption. Indeed, he made promises to do so. But he has met with resistance, especially within the ANC.
A tomato vendor attends to buyer at a makeshift food market established to cushion the effect of COVID lockdown in Lagos.
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To overcome food insecurity, especially in a pandemic, Nigeria’s emergency preparedness requires a total overhaul of it’s agri-food supply chain.
Nawal El Saadawi in 2015.
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Her 1975 novel demonstrated a far more radical feminism than was common in Africa and the Arab world – a precursor of the #MenAreTrash anger of today.
Conflicts between nomadic livestock farmers and crop farmers are common in Ghana.
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Institutional problems make it difficult to satisfy livestock and crop farmers’ interests, already in contest over agricultural resources.
A group of young men wait on a road for work in South Africa. A staggering 74% of the country’s youth are jobless.
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Relying solely on job placement as an indicator of successful intervention misses out on outcomes that are equally important, or more so, amid high structural unemployment.
Traditional media houses must adapt, innovate and converge to survive in the digital age.
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Media houses with digital and traditional newsrooms need to create collaborative environments to address the tensions that often emerge between the old and the new.
Vendors in front of their shop in China Town, Ojota, Lagos.
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Nigeria and China should work more on the relationship between their citizens so that the two countries can continue to have good bilateral relations.
The community of Xolobeni village, in the Eastern Cape, succeesfully challenged the mining of their land in the High Court in 2018.
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Traditional leaders do not adequately represent the interests of rural communities in dealing with mining companies.
Graduates in the science, engineering and technology fields enjoy an advantage in the labour market.
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South Africa is producing an oversupply of graduates in fields that don’t support economic growth.
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Women breadwinners believed that their role was viewed as threatening to men, who are traditionally breadwinners.
Rescuers work in Kamituga, South Kivu, at the entrance of one of the mines which collapsed following torrential rains trapping dozens of artisanal miners in September 2020.
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The mass privatisation of mining and the turn to foreign direct investment has created conflict with small-scale miners.
Climate change can trigger conflict between farmers and herders in Somalia.
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The federal government needs to address the relationship between climate-related realities and the country’s national security.
Incidents of road accidents are on the rise in Ghana.
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Authority culpability as a facet of road accidents has been overlooked in Ghana.
Despite the country’s political response to violence against women and girls, school-going girls struggle with male violence in and out of school.
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Pupils who are victimised at school tend to perform poorly academically, are regularly absent from school, suffer psychological trauma and may eventually drop out of school.
Gender discrimination and dominance of male culture top the list of constraints that women face in entering the construction industry.
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April 11, 2021
Richard Jimoh , Federal University of Technology, Minna ; Amina Nna Adamu , Federal University of Technology, Minna ; Luqman Oyekunle Oyewobi , Federal University of Technology, Akure , and Paul A. Bajere , Federal University of Technology, Minna
Women need to know what opportunities exist for them in the construction industry.
A lorry trailer carries the coffins of the victims of a munitions explosion in Brazzaville, the Congolese capital, in 2012.
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Data suggests that Africa as a whole suffers a relatively high rate of casualties at munition sites where there are unplanned explosions.
Giant old trees in the rainforest at Campement de Kloto, Missahoe, Agomé in Togo, West Africa.
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A stable ecosystem of organic matter is the key to improving agricultural yields in the surrounding farmland and fighting climate change.
Christof Heyns served as UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions and on the UN Human Rights Committee.
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From his positions at the United Nations, Professor Heyns made a huge impact on the protection of the right to life and the right of peaceful assembly.
University students in Kenya aren’t getting the mentorship support they need outside the classroom.
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A lack of consistent mentorship models leads to a skills gap which affects the global competitiveness of Kenya’s students and graduates.