Some African journalists are concerned that foreign funders may influence what they cover and how.
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Western aid has resulted in an Anglo-American culture of journalism education which has proved impractical to implement in African countries with illiberal political regimes.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (left) and Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki at the re-opening of the Eritrean embassy in Addis Ababa.
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It’s unclear how relations between Addis Ababa and Asmara will develop but the warmth has largely gone.
Countries can be better prepared and respond faster to disease outbreaks if public health data is shared more freely.
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Sharing data openly across regions and organisations can help to accelerate preparedness and responses to public health emergencies.
Africa has tried for decades to develop robust intra-regional trade. Free trade agreement is the most recent effort
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Now that African countries have signed up for the continental free trade agreement, they must complete the institutional loop by jumpstarting the creation of the African Monetary Fund.
A Senegalese nun prays during a service at the St. Peters church in Dakar, Senegal.
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Neither French nor American, Senegalese secularism stands midway between these two models
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with United Nations Secretary General António Guterres.
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Election to the Security Council is prestigious for member states because it gives them a seat at the highest table of global decision-making.
Debate about SA Reserve Bank’s mandate must be done in a more considered manner, informed by evidence.
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The debate about the mandate of the South African Reserve Bank must be located within a clearly articulated political vision and social compact on the kind of society South Africans aspire to.
The displaced populations within Ethiopia could destabilise the entire country.
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Ethiopia’s internally displaced populations are a stain on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s first term in office.
South Africa’s child support grant helps fight poverty among children up to the age of 18.
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The child support grant, as a policy instrument, cannot work alone in ensuring that young people thrive and succeed.
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What should be done to ensure that the SDGs actually change countries’ development trajectories? Here are four practical steps.
With so much research, data and evidence in the world, it’s tough to pull it together in a useful way.
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With accessible software tools and workflows, machines can be left to do the laborious work so that people can focus on planning, thinking and doing.
Aerial view of Kariba dam.
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Zimbabwe has a severe energy crisis because its major sources of electricity are struggling to keep up with demand.
Doctors preparing to perform an operation.
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To reverse brain drain, the government should create a conducive environment for investment that will ensure employment opportunities
Ghana has, since independence in 1957, regularly turned to the IMF for financial assistance
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Ghana has completed yet another IMF financial assistance programme. Given its long history of living within its means and then blowing the budget again, will it be knocking on the IMF’s doors soon?
The coal plant would be about 20km from Lamu town - a Unesco world heritage site.
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The court case highlighted that key environmental challenges were not adequately covered by the Environmental Impact Assessment
Inheritors of an order we did not build, we are now witnesses to a decline we did not see.
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We are, as Snyder is urgently reminding us, perilously close to the edge of the fascist cliff
The Otigba Computer Village shows that sharing knowledge widely benefits all businesses in a cluster.
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The Otigba Computer Village shows how businesses in a largely informal market identify new and useful knowledge, apply it innovatively to scale up their operations and increase profits.
Botswana’s Okavango Delta.
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Our work represents the first assessment of what social and economic factors are connected to environmental degradation across the entire African continent.
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When the policies and programmes developed in Belo Horizonte were rolled out nationally, Brazil experienced a notable decline in hunger.
Higher education remains a significant challenge for refugees.
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Just 1% of refugees in the world are able to continue education beyond secondary school.