An offensive in the Tigray region followed months of aerial strikes by the Ethiopian government. The situation could spark a wider regional conflict.
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The war against Iran has exposed Africa’s dependence on external transit hubs for international and even intra-African connectivity.
At a time when UN peace operations are declining, African organisations are often the first responders to emerging crises.
Digital platforms offer opportunities for African dance influencers to construct their own visions of what it means to be African.
Recent confrontations in Tigray are a sign that the 2022 peace process has seriously derailed.
Whether in Kenya or California, herders face dangerous temperatures and difficult conditions that put a strain on their health.
Crises that add up on top of each other have to be addressed in an integrated way.
Effective migration policy is not about imposing new patterns of movement, but about making existing ones safer, fairer, and more beneficial for all.
Most lightning strike survivors have no visible scars, but their invisible injuries often go untreated.
Africa still needs millions of better-paying jobs and higher productivity to reduce poverty. What has changed is the route to achieving those goals.
Sovereign creditworthiness is interpreted and reassessed through several overlapping evaluations.
The response to the many problems facing the region has been set back by cuts in humanitarian aid.
Chinese lenders have invested billions in African agriculture. But new research shows the money often misses what’s needed to modernise the sector.
France’s ethnically diverse squad reflects the nation’s multi-faceted history: its colonial heritage, migration patterns and the French Football Federation’s training policy that dates back to the 1990s.
Until now, there has been little evidence of how young people in middle- and low-income countries use and feel about AI.
Well-run institutions are more resilient to financial instability and better positioned to attract long-term partnerships.
With a population of just 500,000 people spread across ten islands, Cape Verde is used to defying the odds.
Muslims were woven into both America’s founding population and its labor force, writes a scholar of Islam on the nation’s 250th anniversary.
Citizens don’t just respond to disasters. They also respond to how governments manage them.
With added climate pressures, ending the abusive practice of female genital mutilation becomes more challenging.
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University; Aston University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Professor, World Christianity and African Studies, DePaul University
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Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
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Professor of Economics, Salisbury University
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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Aston University