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  • This year's UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) is taking place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Environment, Rwanda.
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    Is it time to abandon decolonisation?

    By Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh
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    Decolonisation has become an uncritical and condescending buzzword used to police what it means to be African, argues a sharp new book.   Does decolonisation, ...
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    Agroecology is the African-led solution we need from COP27

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    Industrialised agriculture is big driver of emissions. Agroecology is sustainable, resilient, high yield, and gives farmers sovereignty. It is a welcome shift to see ...
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    Why are Nigerians keeping migration plans secret from their friends?

    By Kingsley Charles
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    Many relationships have suffered as people planning to leave Nigeria only inform their nearest and dearest once they’ve already gone.  On the morning of ...
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  • COP27 takes places in Egypt from 6-18 November. Credit: Jeffrey Barbee/Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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    COP27: It’s Africa’s time to lead

    By Lily Odarno
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    Zimbabwe’s education was once the envy of Africa. Not anymore

    By Evidence Chenjerai
    November 2, 2022
    Educators during the country’s post-independence golden age wanted for nothing. Today’s teachers say they barely scrape by. It wasn’t just his well-fitted suit, the ...
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    Of sunken states and ballet nights: Prize-winning photos from E Africa

    By Uganda Press Photo
    October 27, 2022
    The East African Photography Awards – as well as the Uganda Press Photo and Young Photographer Awards – return in 2022 with stunning and ...
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  • A scam text received in Tanzania persuading the receiver to contact a ‘witchdoctor’ in order to obtain wealth, academic success, and love attraction. These scams are sometimes accompanied by fabricated testimonies. Credit: Mweha Msemo.
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    “Gone like it was nothing”: The irrepressible rise of mobile scams

    By Mweha Msemo
    October 25, 2022
    Despite Tanzania making SIM card registration mandatory, people still receive daily texts from fraudsters trying to trick them into sending money. Out of the ...
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  • A truck carries people from South Sudan towards the border of West Nile region, Uganda. Credit: UNHCR / F. Noy.
    SocietyTop storyUganda

    Borders areas should be used, not feared, in pandemic responses

    By Innocent Anguyo & Elizabeth Storer
    October 13, 2022
    Uganda’s experience shows how communities near borders come up with effective strategies for disease control, while resisting disruptive state ones. As Uganda continues to ...
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  • Africa COP27. UN Women/Joe Saade
    Climate crisisEditor's Picks

    What African governments must fight for at COP27

    By Africa Climate Justice Collective
    October 11, 2022
    African delegations must demand loss and damage reparations, that fossil fuels stay in the ground, and that false solutions are abandoned.  Climate change remains ...
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