With partnerships between landowners, the government and businesses, South Africa can invest in its wetlands and boost the country’s potable water reserves.
Frank Mattheis, University of Pretoria dan Ueli Staeger, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Africa’s new continental free trade area, the AfCFTA, is a remarkable achievement. However, decisive diplomatic, technical and social action is needed for it to succeed.
Billions of people globally don’t have access to safe, clean toilets.
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Tackling corruption is notoriously difficult but Nigeria is pursuing a fresh approach. Using technology, especially social media, its citizens are producing evidence to hold officials to account.
The constitutionality of South Africa’s surveillance law is being challenged in court.
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South Africa’s law that regulates the Interception of communications is being challenged on the basis it can be abused by rogue elements in intelligence.
A newspaper vendor outside a polling station during the 2011 elections in Nigeria.
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Nigerian print media played a crucial role in monitoring violence, and thereby deterring it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zambian President Edgar Lungu meet on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg in 2018.
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Almost 80 million Nigerians do not have access to electricity and its erratic supply is costing the economy an estimated $29 billion annually. Nigeria’s abundant sunlight could be the solution.
Historically, Khoisan people from southern Africa were used as scientific subjects in racist experiments.
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