A Rwandan officer on patrol in Palma, Mozambique, during a military assistance mission in 2021.
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Kigali wants to be seen as a reliable security provider at home and abroad.
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.
Girls may encounter obstacles that hinder their educational participation and reading development.
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Improving school sanitation, reducing household chores, and addressing harassment and bullying could enhance girls’ reading performance relative to boys’.
A woman cheers at President Yoweri Museveni’s inauguration for a sixth term in 2021.
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Women are constantly battling stereotypes that seek to maintain the status quo of male dominance in political spaces.
Countries in east Africa are facing the harsh realities of climate change.
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Business and management graduates can become the kind of sustainability champions the world needs today.
A banana market in Kitwa, Uganda. Most of Uganda’s economic activity is informal and untaxed.
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Uganda Revenue Authority has turned its focus on small traders and VAT law enforcement after the World Bank funding freeze.
Kenya is one of the jurisdictions under increased monitoring for money laundering.
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Kenya must complete a national terrorist financing risk assessment and share it publicly.
Kenyan police arrest journalists protesting against a controversial media bill in December 2008.
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Important factors, such as conflict, are central to understanding a country’s degree of press freedom, development and democratisation.
Financial abuse persists when access to economic opportunities is controlled or limited by an intimate partner.
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When money is entangled with relationships, it can often become a tricky situation.
The research assessed newspaper coverage of fintech in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa.
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Coverage is celebratory and offers limited cautionary and critical reporting to the public and to policymakers.
Bobi Wine stands on a motorbike as he travels Uganda campaigning for the opposition.
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An emotional roller coaster, the film tracks the pop star’s political battle up close and personal.
The Obim Rock internally displaced persons’ camp in northern Uganda.
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Uganda, as the concerned state party, is expected to go out and find Dominic Ongwen’s victims.
Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, on the campaign trail ahead of Uganda’s 2021 general election.
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Bobi Wine’s run at the presidency in 2021 had appeared to present an unprecedented threat to Yoweri Museveni’s longstanding rule.
Greenhouse gas emissions from transportation contribute to climate change.
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Ghana needs strong political will to enhance its climate change regulation.
Youth-targeted strategies are part of the authoritarian rule book in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda and Ethiopia.
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Africa’s youth are not countering the deepening of autocratisation across the continent.
Kenya’s former president Uhuru Kenyatta and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu signing agreements in Jerusalem in 2016.
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East Africa’s reaction to the war in Gaza appears shaped by history, affinity to the policies of the west and the threat of terrorism.
Empty bowls at a refugee camp in Kenya.
Budget cuts have resulted in increased hunger in camps in Uganda, Burundi and Kenya that house refugees from across the region.
Total Energies employees work on Uganda’s crude oil pipeline.
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Uganda needs to focus on production sharing, infrastructure development and export timing.
Ugandan soldiers in the deep forests of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2021.
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Regional rivalries have functioned as oxygen, allowing the rebel group to survive and grow.
Activists in the UK protest against a government plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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The government of Rwanda must commit to eliminating the forced return of refugees and asylum seekers.