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  • Abubaker walks with three of his kids. He had a vasectomy in secret because he decided it was time to stop having children. Credit: Edna Namara/Global Press Journal.
    GPJSocietyUgandaZimbabwe

    “It was time I took responsibility”: The men getting vasectomies

    By Edna Namara & Evidence Chenjerai
    February 3, 2022
    More men are starting to push back against misconceptions about the procedure, opening up more possibilities for family planning. Three years ago, Abubaker overheard ...
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  • At a media roundtable in Gondar, Ethiopia, in 2015. Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia / 2015/Tesfaye.
    Editor's PicksEthiopiaPolitics

    Four ways the Ethiopian government manipulates the media

    By Meron Gebreananaye, Saba Mah’derom & Kisanet Haile Molla
    February 1, 2022
    From targeted harassment to blackouts, Addis Ababa has tried to dilute, distract and deflect from coverage of atrocities in the Tigray war.  Despite near ...
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  • Allen Asimwe, left, plaits hair at the salon she opened six years ago to supplement her income teaching high school geography in Kampala, Uganda on October 26, 2021. Since Uganda’s government is raising salaries only for science-oriented teachers, she has decided it makes more sense to focus on clients than students. Credit: Edna Namara/Global Press Journal.
    GPJSocietyUganda

    Uganda’s tripling of salaries for STEM teachers delights and divides

    By Edna Namara & Patricia Lindrio
    January 25, 2022
    The pay rise for educators in science-related fields has left arts and humanities teachers feeling spurned. Will students suffer for it? Allen Asimwe, 54, ...
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  • EconomyKenyaSouth Africa

    Could two troubled airlines’ pan-African partnership work?

    By Eric Tchouamou Njoya
    January 20, 2022
    The potential risks and rewards of the South African Airways and Kenya Airways’ joint vision. There are very few profitable African airlines. Those operating ...
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  • Voters queue outside a polling station in the Somaliland 2021 elections. Credit: Somaliland International Election Observation Mission 2021.
    PoliticsSomaliland

    How did Somaliland end up with zero female MPs?

    By Conrad Heine
    January 10, 2022
    While rightly lauded for its elections, the self-declared states’ lack of female representation points to a deep problem in its democratic health. Over 30 ...
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  • Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia giving a speech in 2019. Credit: Paul Kagame.
    EthiopiaPolitics

    What could happen next in Ethiopia’s war of attrition?

    By Nick Westcott
    December 17, 2021
    While Abiy may control the plains, the TPLF are almost impossible to defeat in the mountains. The one factor that could change things is ...
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  • The 8 December 2021 protest by the media against state-led press repression in Sudan. Credit: Ayin.
    Editor's PicksSocietySudan

    “Back to the former lies”: Sudan reverts to media repression post-coup

    By Elzahraa Jadallah, Khaled Fathi & Tom Rhodes
    December 16, 2021
    When the military seized power on 25 October, one of the first casualties was Sudan’s newfound freedom of expression. On 17 November, journalist Ali ...
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  • President Yoweri Museveni has been in power in Uganda since 1986. Credit: Paul Kagame.
    PoliticsTop storyUganda

    Uganda’s regime is not the solution to insecurity. It’s part of the problem

    By Michael Mutyaba
    December 9, 2021
    Despite its reputation as a beacon of stability, the government itself is the main source of violence and terror for many Ugandans. Earlier this ...
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  • A Kenyan secondary boarding school soon after it was burnt down. Credit: Elizabeth Cooper.
    KenyaSociety

    Kenyan students keep setting their schools on fire. Where’s the alarm?

    By Elizabeth Cooper
    December 8, 2021
    Students setting dozens if not hundreds of schools on fire each year is no longer surprising. What’s shocking is the government’s apathy. When the ...
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  • US soldiers training counterparts in Uganda. Credit: Spc. Jason Nolte, 21st Theater Sustainment Command.
    PoliticsTop storyUganda

    The cynical realpolitik of the War on Terror: Uganda 2021 edition

    By Kristof Titeca & Eric Mwine-Mugaju
    November 29, 2021
    The Kampala bombings will likely mean more counter-terrorism ops, more human rights abuses, and more donor support for the Museveni regime. In the last ...
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