Election officials confirm a voter’s biometric details during Kenya’s 2022 elections.
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It is too simplistic to say that the use of AI in elections is all good or all bad. The truth is that it can be both.
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Reducing risk requires moving beyond heavy-handed solutions like banning bushmeat, and instead focusing on making markets safer.
Using innovative ways to get vaccines to people in remote areas.
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For villagers in remote areas in Sierra Leone it takes a lot of time and money to get to a clinic. So the COVID-19 vaccine came to the people.
Play and storytelling are a crucial part of children’s cognitive development.
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Children benefit enormously from regular, cognitively stimulating interactions with their caregivers.
Supporters of President Julius Maada Bio celebrate his re-election in Freetown, Sierra Leone on 27 June 2023.
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A major concern is whether the recent attacks In Sierra Leone will encourage further division and tension in the country.
Karim Khan, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, at a UN meeting in July 2023.
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The push for national trials reflects a disappointment with the slow pace and high costs of international justice.
Coup leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani appearing on Niger state television to announce the takeover.
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The coup in Niger has the potential to further destabilise the whole of west Africa.
A man pours water on his head to cool off in Algiers, during a heat wave on 18 July 2023.
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Temperature records are being broken in Africa and around the world.
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu, new ECOWAS chairman.
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The new ECOWAS chairman must focus on strengthening democracy and security in west Africa.
The death penalty has not been enforced in Ghana for over three decades.
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Ghana is a signatory to several international conventions that oblige it to guarantee the right to life.
President of the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone, Mohamed Konneh announcing partial election results in Freetown on June 26, 2023.
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Sierra Leone needs to rebuild public trust in its election by maintaining a completely transparent process.
Henry, a teenaged rebel solider, before he is disarmed in 2001.
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Transitional justice contributed greatly to the peace which Sierra Leone has experienced in the last two decades.
A man casts his vote at a polling station in Freetown during the 2018 general elections.
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Economic management, food shortages, health services, infrastructure and education are key issues that may shape how Sierra Leoneans vote on 24 June.
Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone and haven for thousands of free slaves.
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Africans should get more credit for the abolition of the slave trade.
Africa’s secondary school enrolment rates still lag far behind those of other world regions’.
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The introduction of free education should follow a gradual process, starting with the lowest levels.
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An agreement to end conflict is only one small step in an often long process.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington on Dec. 15, 2022.
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As the United States government builds economic and security ties with African countries, some of those countries are encouraging African Americans to establish social and economic ties in Africa.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is shown in Moscow in March 2022, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine.
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The International Criminal Court announced an arrest warrant for Putin and his children’s rights commissioner in March 2023, alleging the illegal abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children.
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Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, has a chief heat officer, the first in Africa. She has her work cut out for her.
A small group of protesters holds Russia and Burkina flags as they protest against the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
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Although West Africa has made some headway with efforts to propagate democracy, its dividends, in the form of good governance, remain elusive.