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A landmark climate case before the African Court asks what African states must do to protect human rights, phase out fossil fuels, and tackle climate change.
Floods regularly devastate Lagos’s informal workers, but traders and residents have built their own systems to adapt where the state has failed.
“We are not xenophobic, we want to assist Home Affairs” says march organiser
Road counts over 16 years revealed declines in populations of birds of prey in South Africa.
Childcare responsibilities, housing access and regional cultural norms influence where Nigerian women work.
The DA-run City is bending the rules to accommodate a favoured few. We are being asked to breathe life into a 17-year-old "Helen Zille Zombie Deal" that has already died three times.
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Nigeria’s new electoral act doesn’t tackle some of the real problems of electoral governance.
Solar energy can cut costs and pollution for South African households, but fear of theft holds people back. Shared mini-grids offer a safer, affordable alternative.
As ocean uses expand, it will be necessary to reduce disputes because they disrupt the environmental sustainability and equity central to a blue economy.
Louis Theroux (perhaps unintentionally) shows us that a traditional TV documentarian like him no longer holds the power.
The sad truth is that African countries cannot avoid being harmed by the current Gulf war. But they can make efforts to emerge from the crisis in a better place.
There are four practical policy shifts that the Nigerian government could take to improve the use of maternity services.
Research suggests a shift to electric mobility is technically and economically feasible.
By 2100, rural African dwellers will be exposed to dangerous levels of heat nearly twice as high as those in urban areas.
Although the theatre of the war is far away from Nigeria geographically, the impact is being felt in the country.
South Africa is proposing to extend labour and social protections to platform workers.
Preventing unintended pregnancies among women living with HIV is a critical strategy for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
African countries must not sign away their health data or release their pathogens in exchange for donor funding.
Strong institutions ensure that foreign investment supports sustainable growth rather than environmental decay.
Millions of people in west Africa and the Sahel region face starvation.
‘Prophetpreneurship’ is a strategic blend of prophecy, charisma and business.
Structural barriers such as inaccessible infrastructure and lack of transport options affect South Africa’s reputation as a disability-friendly country.
Across Africa, governments are finding ways to reduce dependence on foreign arms suppliers and building capabilities they can control, maintain and adapt.
In sub-Saharan Africa, over 300,000 people are envenomed each year, leading to over 7,000 deaths and almost twice as many amputations.