Simon Kingori, a survivor of the 1998 bomb blast at the US embassy in Nairobi prays at the memorial park in the city.
Jacob Wire/EPA
Two decades after terrorists bombed the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Kenya has implemented a slew of measures to counter terrorism.
A Togolese opposition supporter during protests over alleged electoral fraud in 2005.
EPA/Nic Bothma
Togo illustrates the difficulty of moving away from personalised politics.
Women who lead schools must deal with internal and external stresses.
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Researchers pay scant attention to women principals’ identities as leaders in relation to race, culture, ethnicity, religion, class, and sexuality.
Limited by illiteracy and workloads women are less involved in Turkana.
Flickr/Tom Albinson
Turkana women weren’t properly represented in decisions made between the oil company and community.
Cecil the Lion shortly before he was killed.
Vince O'Sullivan/Flickr
The Cecil movement didn’t lead to any deep-seated changes as trophy hunting persists in many parts of Africa.
MDC-Alliance supporters at a campaign rally addressed by the party leader Nelson Chamisa.
EPA-EFE/Aaron Ufumeli
Zimbabweans face a complicated array of choices at the polls.
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin greets former South African President Nelson Mandela in 2000.
EPA/Mike Hutchings
Mandela did not make the decision to jettison Taiwan and recognise China. He adhered to a decision by the governing ANC.
Policies must be put in place to reduce the number of working children in Nigeria.
Shutterstock/Atfie Sahid
About 15 million Nigerian children work - the highest rate in West Africa.
Business owners may feel the benefits of automation outweigh the risks.
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There seems to be very limited high-level discourse about how South Africa plans to navigate this wave of technological advancement.
Abstinence campaign posters in Uganda.
Flickr/Jake Brewer
Uganda needs to face the reality that many young people are sexually active and need information to protect themselves.
African women do a lot of unpaid work that isn’t captured in GDP calculations.
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The methods used to measure gross domestic product are being criticised for excluding the unpaid work done by women.
Egenie told her story for her father whom she describes as her friend and mentor.
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Wider access to technology has increased possibilities to share stories via digital means.
Senegalese women queuing to vote at a polling station in Dakar.
Nic Bothma/EPA
To understand why women in Africa are less politically represented than men, one needs to look into the history of the continent’s gender gap when it comes to matters of leadership and governance.
One of the refugee camps in Dadaab, northern Kenya, where more than 300,000 call home.
EPA/Boris Roessler
Kenya may never close Dadaab, but it has good reasons for wishing to do so
Women teachers can be powerful role models for girls.
Mark Stedman/Flickr
Female teachers can act as role models who enhance girls’ motivation and learning outcomes.
Street-connected children use begging as a livelihood strategy.
Shutterstock/SunshineSeeds
As Addis Ababa develops into a modern city, beggars are increasingly being treated like public nuisances and criminals.
A woman sells charcoal in Nairobi, Kenya.
Flickr/Laura Rantanen
There are some big misconceptions about the charcoal sector and its role in environmental damage.
Family physicians are a relatively new innovation in the South African health system.
Dalton Dingelstad
Family physicians have started to play a key role in the district health system in South Africa.
Rwanda needs to push its pledge to remove all obstacles against women’s development.
Flickr/Adam Cohn
Rwandan girls with disabilities are challenging domination and stereotypes in a male-dominated setting.
Supporters celebrate Julius Maada Bio’s victory in Sierra Leone’s presidential run-off.
EPA-EFE/Ernest Henry
It’s the fourth time a peaceful democratic election has taken place in Sierra Leone. But these are not the stories we hear.