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Digital tax filing can improve accuracy and timeliness but it doesn’t always translate into higher tax revenue.
Thandi Galleta of Malawi (right) and Karin Burger of New Zealand in a 2023 World Cup warm up match in Cape Town.
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The world’s largest women’s sporting event is being hosted in Africa for the first time.
The experience of schooling matters as much as the practices it teaches.
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In this area, much of the work of being educated is only indirectly tied to the schooling experience.
Relatives of victims in Uganda mourning the victims of a brutal attack by suspected extremist rebels that left at least 40 people dead, including many schoolchildren.
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Deadly attacks on schoolchildren by terrorists groups have been growing around the world from 2009.
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Gay and gender-diverse people have historically faced enormous obstacles finding refuge abroad.
The annual gay pride parade in Entebbe, Uganda, in 2014.
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A scholar of politics and religion explains how anti-LGBTQ laws are being used to distract the public from governance failures in many parts of the world.
Paul Kagame at a commemoration of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in April 2023.
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The circumstances, challenges and history of Rwanda are intertwined with Paul Kagame’s own life story.
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Health workers with relatives in positions of power were frequently absent from work.
A witness cries while giving testimony in a trial against former Guatemalan dictator Gen. José Efraín Ríos Montt in 2013.
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College students learn about people who have dedicated their professional lives to reducing the threat of violence – and their successes and failures.
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The success of the Ugandan dance troupe offers a chance to discuss the harms of institutional care.
Refugees who crossed from Sudan to Ethiopia wait in line to register at the International Organization for Migration at Metema on May 4, 2023.
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The number of refugees leaving Sudan is particularly high because Sudan was itself host to a million refugees.
Democracy cannot survive without free media.
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Finding the right balance between media freedom and limits remains one of the greatest challenges modern democracies face.
Workers working on the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Train project at Halim Station, East Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Using the state budget as collateral it is too risky a move when it comes to dealing with Beijing.
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The proposed law reinforces unscientific conversion practices – or so-called reparative therapies – that don’t work.
South Sudanese soldiers prepare for deployment to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The region’s forces are seen as important in addressing the long-running conflict in the DRC – but their involvement is complicated.
The performance by Ghetto Kids on Britain’s Got Talent won them new fans across the world.
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The Ugandan orphans stole headlines after performing on Britain’s Got Talent - but have been an internet sensation for years.
Uganda passed discriminatory anti-gay laws in March.
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In March, Albanese joined 50,000 people to march in support of queer rights. At the same time, in another part of the world, Uganda passed a string of draconian anti-gay laws.
Uganda president Yoweri Museveni thinks homosexuality is “disgusting”.
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It seems likely that Uganda’s president, who has described homosexuality as ‘disgusting’ will pass this bill into law.
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Thirty years ago the World Bank recognised that its position was untenable. It put in place mechanisms to make the bank more accountable to ordinary people.
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It is not the drought that causes disease outbreak, but instead the way society deals with dry conditions.