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Clearing huge tracts of land to plant one crop like maize has degraded land and put healthy food out of the reach of ordinary people. A new book has solutions.
Leaving millions of children out of school has devastating consequences.
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: massive regional economic repair.
African leaders’ authoritarian practices, domestic power struggles and governance failures have undermined efforts to create a ‘United States of Africa’.
Women in the Grafton community of Sierra Leone are often left with restricted land ownership rights.
Simple either/or ways of seeing women overlook the power dynamics and structural factors that give rise to the stereotypes.
Frelimo’s ability to repress political contestation in Mozambique is diminishing.
The hype around digital tools can divert attention from farmers’ real, on-the-ground challenges.
Global scientific reports about climate change are largely written and reviewed by older researchers from the global north.
Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.
Poor governance and incompetence plague South Africa’s public administration, particularly at the local level.
Sub-Saharan African countries should be given more financial and technical support to cope with climate change disasters, so that they can continue to spend funds on economic development.
Tanzania is using conservation as a pretext for land grabs and human rights violations.
Mali’s new penal code came into effect on 13 December 2024. It equates same-sex sexual relations with indecent assault and makes it a criminal act.
The annual Ọ̀ṣun festival is a week-long event that usually takes place between the end of July and early August.
Poorer states, like Rwanda and Burundi, have economic incentives for maintaining peacekeeping armies.
Madagascar tops the list globally in terms of the percentage of plant species endemic to a single island.
The capabilities of the Nigerian Air Force have geopolitical implications for combating terrorism and threats of coups in west Africa.
A uranium mine wants to drill into a giant aquifer system the size of Austria.
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Assistant Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, University College Dublin
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