Banners and candles are displayed during a ceremony commemorating the Biafran War
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Fifty years after the Biafran war, the massacre in Asaba in the south-south region of Nigeria is still a highly sensitive issue.
Women are often primary caregivers in their communities.
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Women must be included at decision making levels to advise on development, designing, delivery and implementation of tools that target health issues that affect them especially malaria.
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African countries need to strengthen their capacity for identifying new cases.
Namibians queue to vote. Fewer and fewer cast it for the ruling party SWAPO.
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The hunger, frustration and desperation of ordinary Namibians should be first on the political agenda. But this isn’t the case.
A vendor distributes newspapers wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Nairobi, Kenya.
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The economic impact of the disease will have dramatic effects on the well-being of families and communities
Progress has been slow in Ghana in expanding access to water.
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Governments must take note of specific geographic contexts and local attributes that drive water insecurity.
Vicious cycle: violence is often used to stop violence.
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The school playground is not just a place to have fun. It’s an important space to claim power and this is often done through violence.
South Africa still depends on coal for most of its electricity.
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Climate pledges must be more ambitious and focus on early and aggressive action to deal with global emissions.
Everyone needs to be fired up with a rage aligned with the feminine principle of care rather than the masculine principle of control.
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How two massive opposing forces - the shift towards a sustainable world and the force that thrives on inequality - are unfolding at a global level.
The number of new cases at the epicentre of China’s coronavirus epidemic dropped to a new low.
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Several questions about the origin of the outbreak remain with no clear data on what this was or if it was an animal source.
Algerian protesters wave the national flag during a demonstration in the capital Algiers.
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They protest to have a sound economic system based on healthy competition and free enterprise.
Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane and his new wife, Maesaiah, at the Magistrate Court in Maseru.
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The doctrine of equality is ingrained both in theory and in the express provisions of Lesotho’s constitution.
Global education assessments show that South Africa’s education system is moving upward.
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New insights show that South Africa’s education system is heading in the right direction.
Nigeria has to include digital literacy in its primary school curriculum.
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Nigeria’s education system must embrace artificial intelligence technologies to join the fourth industrial revolution.
Eskom and other state owned companies have become a huge burden on the government purse.
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Those who benefit from economic reforms are often not the same as those who bear the costs.
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It's important to focus on the challenges facing higher education before the reach a boiling point.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari at a campaign rally ahead of the 2019 general elections.
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One year after the 2019 general elections in Nigeria, courts and not the electorate, are busy deciding actual winners of the polls.
Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden greets supporters after addressing a Super Tuesday event in Los Angeles on March 3, 2020.
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A Biden presidency would be highly likely to adopt policies that would restore the cooperative links that prevailed under Obama.
The St Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty with mask-wearing women holding stretchers at the backs of ambulances during the global flu epidemic, St Louis, Missouri, October 1918.
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The Spanish flu episode highlights some elementary mistakes made back then which must be avoided at all costs to prevent another public health disaster.
Most households didn’t want their future generations to become farmers.
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Understanding rural household aspirations and taking them seriously in development planning could offer great potential in shaping the future of rural spaces.