Satellite imagery after the catastrophic flooding that struck the city of Derna.
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Dams are usually built to withstand heavy rainfall or drought.
Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane has been impeached and fired as South Africa’s public protector.
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Awarding punitive costs against legal practitioners would make them think twice about facilitating delaying tactics and malicious lawsuits.
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Rongai’s rapid development has happened without services keeping pace, and the rivers have paid the price.
Alexandra township is situated next to the wealthy suburb of Sandton, laying bare post-apartheid South Africa’s vast gulf between wealth and poverty.
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Efforts have been made to change the patterns of inequality in South Africa. But not enough has been done. Race-based inequality is still a real problem.
Supreme Court judges at the installation of Kenya’s first woman chief justice, Martha Koome, in 2021.
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Kenya’s confidence crisis is a problem because people need to believe the judiciary is acting independently if it is to play its role.
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Climate change is putting pressure on Ethiopia’s largest city, Addis Ababa, and exposing people to disease and natural disasters.
An African antelope at the Mekrou river in the W National Park, Niger.
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Trans-border collaboration is required to recover protected areas that transverse Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin Republic from armed groups.
Tanzania is not yet out of the woods despite reforms by President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
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Current reforms in Tanzania lack popular participation and legal safeguards.
An election tribunal recently upheld President Bola Tinubu’s election victory in Nigeria.
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No matter how clean an election is, Nigerian politicians typically challenge the result.
It may be only the Burundian troops that leave Somalia by the end of 2024.
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A rapid exit of AU troops from Somalia could hand a battlefield and propaganda advantage to al-Shabaab.
Opposition supporters calling for free and fair elections outside the offices of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission in Harare in 2018.
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Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections look like their predecessors: stolen. But this one is a bit different. Opposition strategies and regional responses have changed too. What does this mean for the future?
The aftermath of a 2021 fire disaster in an abandoned building in central Johannesburg.
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September 8, 2023
Marie Huchzermeyer , University of the Witwatersrand ; Amira Osman , Tshwane University of Technology ; Hannah le Roux , University of the Witwatersrand ; Margot Rubin , Cardiff University ; Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon , University of the Witwatersrand ; Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane , University of the Witwatersrand ; Neil Klug , University of the Witwatersrand ; Philip Harrison , University of the Witwatersrand ; Priscila Izar , University of the Witwatersrand ; Sarah Charlton , University of the Witwatersrand ; Sarita Pillay Gonzalez , University of the Witwatersrand , and Tanya Zack , University of the Witwatersrand
Armed police interventions are unconstitutional and incapable of addressing housing and safety in the inner city.
Mother and baby take refuge from drought and hunger at a refugee camp in Somalia.
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Africa has made good progress towards reducing maternal mortality and newborn deaths over the past decade. But climate change is reversing the gains.
Farmers in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
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The rhetoric that presents the Amhara people as a national enemy has gone on, unchallenged, for far too long.
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Indigenous knowledge of spiritual protection could help fight crime.
What was once a farm dam in South Africa is now parched earth.
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Africa’s future looks catastrophic if we don’t act now on climate change.
Emmanuel Macron has found himself to be an unpopular figure in parts of Africa.
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The French president has struggled to maintain the influence his country gained in Africa through colonialism.
Ghanaian students are trained to focus on testing.
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Ghanaians measure the quality of education by examination scores.
Ali Bongo Ondimba (in cap) and his wife, Sylvia (in blue shirt), at a campaign rally on 19 August 2023.
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Ali Bongo’s illness, the contagion effect of other recent successful coups and palace power tussles are factors responsible for Gabon’s recent coup.
A woman at a a counselling centre for rape victims in Paoua, 500km northwest of Bangui in the CAR.
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The birth rate was lower and the death rate markedly higher in areas outside government control in the Central African Republic.