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Art and visual culture played a significant role in building a unified Afrikaner nationalism that allowed apartheid to thrive. A new book unpacks the issue.
CFA franc countries will no longer have to keep 50% of their foreign exchange reserves at the French Treasury.
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The decision by eight Francophone states to delink their common currency from France won’t be without challenges.
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South Africa should not uncritically embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Sudanese protesters during a demonstration in Khartoum.
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Taking Sudan off America’s list of terror is just one step in the country’s journey to economic recovery
South African corporates ignore exploitative business practices to get their products onto spaza shelves.
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Informal retailers that dot South Africa’s townships have changed dramatically, but at great cost - avoidance of regulation and exploitation of employees.
Tubeho Neza community distributions of household water filters and cookstoves in western Rwanda in 2014.
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The Tubeho Neza programme has showed that it is possible to provide interventions against major diseases to vulnerable households.
Ronald Jackson sells dried fish on the roadside in Mangochi, Malawi.
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Nutrition policies offer the chance for us to think differently about men and women’s roles in society.
Students at school on Rusinga Island, Kenya.
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Overcrowding can have severe negative consequences for the education and safety of learners.
Kenya’s Supreme Court upholds President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election victory following a re-run in 2017.
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By pushing their usually valid complaints onto the streets and the courts, opposition leaders deny governments the popular goodwill and international credibility they need to govern effectively.
There has been a slide in the levels of foreign direct investment in Africa.
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African governments need to spend more effort on maximising the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar sign an agreement ending the US’s 18-year war in Afghanistan, Doha, Feb. 29, 2020.
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A peace deal with the Taliban has been signed. But rebuilding Afghanistan after three decades of conflict will take much more than an accord, says a scholar of peacebuilding.
Johannesburg Metropolitan Police raid a building highjacked by a criminal syndicate.
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President Ramaphosa’s emphasis on fighting crime is well placed. Most categories of violent crimes have risen dramatically over the past eight years.
Former South African President FW De Klerk at the opening of parliament recently. The Economic Freedom Fighters objected to his presence.
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It seems that former president FW De Klerk continues to find it hard to accept that apartheid was a crime against humanity.
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) shakes hands with the opposition coalition leader Raila Odinga to symbolise a truce in March 2018.
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Even in the most tense and dangerous of moments, the elite has found a way to come back together.
Military commanders inspect arms and ammunitions recovered from Boko Haram jihadists.
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The re-integration of defectors from terror groups into society is a conundrum governments in conflict situations have to deal with across the world.
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Increases in human density and mobility make the latest coronavirus a serious threat to human health.
Ethiopia’s economic growth hovered between 8%-11% for over 10 years but its sovereign credit rating has not been upgraded
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The alarm being raised by multilateral financial institutions about rising government debt across Africa is exaggerated. The real problem is that African governments pay way over the odds for debt.
Workers harvest grapes on a wine estate in Stellenbosch outside of Cape Town.
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Labour can use networks to create public pressure to protect workers’ rights.
Kenya’s second president, Daniel arap Moi, now deceased.
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The former president’s stranglehold on the press made it very difficult for journalists to do their jobs.
Supporters of Zambia’s president-elect Edgar Lungu in 2016. The country is known for peaceful polls, but this one was marked by clashes.
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Political legacies generated during authoritarian rule have a tendency to transcend into the multiparty era.