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The Ukraine crisis is significantly increasing political stress and potential conflict throughout Africa.
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COVID is only one factor contributing to the difficult debt situation in the region.
A growing number of assistance programs give recipients money.
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A global team of researchers analyzed 34 studies of unconditional cash-transfer programs administered in low- and middle-income countries.
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In 2022 the world is in the midst of another inflection point that few predicted. African countries have history they can draw on to respond.
A child in the Mathare informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Cities have the authority and duty to consider children’s rights as part of climate change responses.
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The World Bank board operates on the basis of reaching decisions by consensus. This means that any executive director must earn the respect of their colleagues to affect change.
High speed trains like this one in Casablanca, Morocco, will benefit from satellite communication support.
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Africa’s outer space programme can help the continent meet its other flagship goals.
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The sourcing of wheat has factored into the political and strategic decisions and security of many countries.
Emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurialism in Nigeria has shifted responsibility for creating employment from employers to unemployed youths.
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Nigerian youth have increasingly been resisting and expressing their dissatisfaction with toxic workplaces.
Ghana is a popular destination for Chinese migrants.
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Opportunities for social mobility, rather than simply economic incentives, have generated emigration from China to countries like Ghana.
Some of the ancient manuscripts Jihadists burnt in Timbuktu in 2013 during civil conflict in Mali.
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Protecting the continent’s historical artefacts requires political will from governments – and a reawakening of cultural conscience among Africans.
A farm in South Africa’s Eastern Cape struggles with woody encroachment.
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Maintaining ecological balance in savannas is essential
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Many of Africa’s forests are unknown to the public at large, yet so fascinating and important.
Mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous in Africa.
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To date, the program has provided nearly $10 million to roughly 137,000 of the country’s poorest citizens.
Russian president Vladimir Putin and African leaders at the 2019 Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum in Sochi in 2019.
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Russia is attempting to export its governance model of an authoritarian, kleptocratic and transactional regime onto Africa.
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, speaks during a special session of the General Assembly on March 02, 2022.
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The resolution is not legally binding, but is an expression of the views of the UN membership.
African forest elephants.
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This was the first national DNA-based assessment of any free-ranging large mammal in Africa.
Kwame Nkrumah’s vision still resonates with Ghanaians.
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Nkrumah’s rhetorical vision used the politics of the crowd to build a postcolonial community outside of the conscripts of colonialism.
African Union and European Union flags the AU-EU Summit in Belgium.
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African participants have decided to press the reset button and begun to act as equal partners – but more can be done to improve the summit process.
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Social media platforms can be put to great use when it comes to promoting sexual health. But invoking threats and fear limits information reach and impact.