Diani Beach, Kenya.
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Government leadership is needed to manage the aquifer as a system for all, including environmental services, rather than for the powerful few.
Hunger affects students’ ability to focus.
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Food insecurity remains a serious challenge among university students in South Africa.
Helen Zille’s election as head of the Democratic Alliance’s federal council has rattled many.
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All signs point to the Democratic Alliance being in deep turmoil which will affect its strength as South Africa’s official opposition.
Innovative efforts have been put in place to reach populations in partially and totally inaccessible parts of Borno state.
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Ending the Boko Haram insurgency is the last hurdle in Nigeria’s race against polio
Cameroonian nationals in Geneva protesting against the presence of President Paul Biya.
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What Cameroon needs is a properly mediated process signing all the parties to a pre-agreed agenda
Steve Biko is widely considered to be the father of Black Consciousness in South Africa.
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Black consciousness in South Africa changed blacks and whites.
Onkgopotse Tiro.
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The book depicts how Onkgopotse Tiro’s time at Turfloop amounted to a revolutionising political script for generations to come.
Conventionally, women are expected to be the main providers of care.
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Care facilities are often considered a last resort in South Africa. Personal care is assumed to be provided by family and household members.
Ageing increases the risk of non-communicable diseases.
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Rapid population ageing has prompted researchers to study disease trends in older South Africans. The aim is to understand the role that specific health conditions play in ageing among rural people.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa (L) is congratulated by Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane after being elected president.
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South Africa’s parliamentary system would make it difficult to achieve a fusion of parties.
Supporters of the Democratic Alliance in South Africa gather earlier this year to listen to the party’s leaders.
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Race is the fault line. Prominent black DA figures label attempts to remove leader Mmusi Maimane as an attempt by whites to force black members into a subordinate position.
One in five children in sub-Saharan Africa live in poverty.
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Child poverty has important psychological and social consequences. This means solutions need to cover very many different angles.
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During almost all outbreaks, women provide the majority of care to the ill voluntarily in their homes at great risk and cost to themselves.
Supporters of presidential candidate Filipe Nyusi’s Frelimo party on the last day of election campaigns in Maputo on October 12, 2019.
During the campaign, partisans of all political stripes were responsible for the violence. But Frelimo supporters were far more aggressive and violent.
The Ghanaian construction industry employs over 320,000 people and more than 2% of young people.
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An unregulated construction sector is stifling its potential to influence Ghana’s economy consistently.
The relationship between income and health underlines the need for strong government policies to break the cycle.
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It’s evident from research that while health influences economic well-being, the inverse is also true, economic well-being influences health.
Mmusi Maimane, leader of South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance.
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Because it’s a blend of political influences the transition it is facing has, inevitably, had an existential effect on the Democratic Alliance.
Syringe and cooked heroin.
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Most Kenyan women were introduced into drug use by male sexual partners in their teenage years.
Uganda’s English language policy isn’t applicable to schools in the the country’s rural areas.
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Uganda’s English language policy is at odds with the situation on the ground in the country’s rural schools.
A UN Security Council session in New York. Kenya wants a seat at the table.
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The country has not had a seat at the Security Council table for 24 years.