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Bobi Wine’s escape from Uganda to the US reveals controlled tensions within both the Museveni regime and opposition.
Moto-taxi drivers remain informal workers in an unprotected labour market, while companies chase profits.
President Yoweri Museveni’s effort to stop evictions didn’t address underlying problems, but it enhanced his political legitimacy.
Motorcycle ride-hailing taxis have been hailed as a major boon for African cities. But they also present new risks of their own making.
Uganda’s interest in natural resources during the second Congo war has had a lasting impact on how it’s perceived in the DRC.
Workers’ power is being recast as precarious workers in Africa experiment with new ways of organising in the digital age
East Africa is one of the fastest urbanising regions in the world, but it’s still in the early phases. There’s a big opportunity to get the region’s cities right.
Lockdown measures may stop the spread of the virus. But they can also lead to a larger and more protracted public health crisis in the form of deprivation and hunger.
When tackling an Ebola outbreak speed is a critical element - every hour counts.
Producers in Zambia should be getting more for their crops, and buyers in East Africa should be paying less, alleviating food price spikes.
Local realities shape the transport system, making it less directly applicable as a model elsewhere.
Uganda is making an effort in a neighbourhood where few other countries have the same enthusiasm.
Kampala, like many other cities in sub-Saharan Africa, has a critical data gap on the scale and magnitude of air pollution.
The active and uninhibited dissemination of knowledge is vital for the advancement of knowledge.
We found that air pollution levels in Nairobi increased by 182% over the study period, Kampala by 162% and Addis Ababa by 62%.
China is funding global infrastructure projects to expand its influence and capacity for economic growth.
African cities are failing to raise development funds through bond markets.
Metropolitan areas are key to economic prosperity of countries. But this is affected when the population grows too fast like in Uganda’s Kampala, where growth has outpaced infrastructure development.
The rise in the number of people fleeing Boko Haram terror calls for urgent amendments to Nigeria’s constitution to provide legal protection to the country’s millions of internally displaced citizens.
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
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Research Associate and Independent Researcher, ODI Global
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Professor in International Development, University of Antwerp
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Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Climate School, Columbia University
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Assistant professor, University of San Francisco
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies; a CEPR Research Fellow; and Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford., University of Oxford
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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Urban Geography, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor, Makerere University
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Professor and Holder of the South African Research Chair in Social Policy, University of South Africa
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Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Community Development, UMass Boston
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Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow in International Migration Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University
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Professor of Economics, Centre for Competition, Regulation & Economic Development, UJ, and at SOAS University of London; advisor Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, University of Johannesburg
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Birmingham