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With partnerships between landowners, the government and businesses, South Africa can invest in its wetlands and boost the country’s potable water reserves.
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In Ghana, backpackers often don't feel safe. Upgrading technology can solve this problem.
President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed a Kabila ally to the powerful post of prime minister.
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Felix Tshisekedi must come out from under former premier Joseph Kabila’s thumb.
The port of Mombasa in Kenya, which was the first country, with Ghana, to ratify the African Continental Free Trade Agreement in 2018.
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Africa’s new continental free trade area, the AfCFTA, is a remarkable achievement. However, decisive diplomatic, technical and social action is needed for it to succeed.
Billions of people globally don’t have access to safe, clean toilets.
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Research shows that targeting poor communities will go a long way in solving the country’s open defecation issues.
President Cyril Ramaphosa must prioritise evidence-based policy making.
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Ramaphosa’s “new dawn” will require a rigorous evidence-base of what works to guide high-level policy planning and design.
Rwandan reporters are using journalism to promote peace, recover and reunite.
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Reporters and editors in Rwanda saw themselves as unifiers, and that meant working to promote unity and reconciliation.
Nigerian citizens have turned to social media to keep tabs on infrastructure projects.
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Tackling corruption is notoriously difficult but Nigeria is pursuing a fresh approach. Using technology, especially social media, its citizens are producing evidence to hold officials to account.
The constitutionality of South Africa’s surveillance law is being challenged in court.
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South Africa’s law that regulates the Interception of communications is being challenged on the basis it can be abused by rogue elements in intelligence.
A newspaper vendor outside a polling station during the 2011 elections in Nigeria.
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Nigerian print media played a crucial role in monitoring violence, and thereby deterring it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zambian President Edgar Lungu meet on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg in 2018.
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Russia’s goal is to become one of Africa’s strategic partners through trade and armed support.
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Poor understanding can be put down to the content in Kenyan schools’ curricula.
Outside a coal burning power station in Witbank. Companies will now pay each time they emit a ton of greenhouse gases.
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South Africa will introduce the carbon tax which should be used to ensure benefits to poor communities.
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Almost 80 million Nigerians do not have access to electricity and its erratic supply is costing the economy an estimated $29 billion annually. Nigeria’s abundant sunlight could be the solution.
Historically, Khoisan people from southern Africa were used as scientific subjects in racist experiments.
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Modern western science must be stripped of the epistemological and methodological privileges it enjoys.
Academics, farmers and entrepreneurs in Malawi integrate their expertise.
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Local based approaches from farmers, researchers and entrepreneurs prove successful for innovation in Malawi.
A Kenyan LGBT activist campaigning for a change to the country’s Penal Code.
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The High Court’s ruling goes against the trend of greater liberalisation in a number of African countries.
South African peacekeepers on patrol in North Kivu, DR Congo
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UN peacekeeping missions need to adapt to the complexities of active conflict situations.
UN peacekeepers from South Africa in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012.
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The UN’s mandate must evolve to navigate new realities that include intra-state wars, non-state actors, and transnational crime.
Private security guard in Nairobi.
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There’s been a rise in partnerships, over the past 20 years, between private security companies and police units in Kenya