Rongai’s rapid development has happened without services keeping pace, and the rivers have paid the price.
Alexandra township is situated next to the wealthy suburb of Sandton, laying bare post-apartheid South Africa’s vast gulf between wealth and poverty.
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Efforts have been made to change the patterns of inequality in South Africa. But not enough has been done. Race-based inequality is still a real problem.
Supreme Court judges at the installation of Kenya’s first woman chief justice, Martha Koome, in 2021.
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A rapid exit of AU troops from Somalia could hand a battlefield and propaganda advantage to al-Shabaab.
Opposition supporters calling for free and fair elections outside the offices of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission in Harare in 2018.
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Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections look like their predecessors: stolen. But this one is a bit different. Opposition strategies and regional responses have changed too. What does this mean for the future?
The aftermath of a 2021 fire disaster in an abandoned building in central Johannesburg.
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Ghanaians measure the quality of education by examination scores.
Ali Bongo Ondimba (in cap) and his wife, Sylvia (in blue shirt), at a campaign rally on 19 August 2023.
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