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Sports tourism: The key to economic development in Africa
Sports tourism can provide opportunities to jump start tourism and travel economy post COVID-19, harness community togetherness, accelerate cultural and…
For Africa’s Manufacturers, Going Green May Offer Profits
The days of smokestack economies are slowly winding down. As evidence of climate change mounts and governments take urgent action…
For Africa’s Manufacturers, Going Green May Offer Profits
The days of smokestack economies are slowly winding down. As evidence of climate change mounts and governments take urgent action…
Small cannabis producers the losers in policy changes across Africa
Cannabis is a drug crop with a long history in Africa. Alongside coca and opium poppy, it has been subjected to international control for…
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Young fathers in Ghana are expanding the meaning of manhood
By Gloria Abena Ampim As the world works towards the goal of gender equality, it’s widely recognised that reaching it…
Global action is the only way to get ahead of Covid-19
By Mark Suzman This week, we learned that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca appears to provide…
As a black Ugandan farmer, people ignore my advice on fighting poverty
The mostly white development sector only funds efforts led by more ‘legitimate’ people. We need support from the diaspora
South African COVID-19 vaccine trials hold key lessons for future partnerships
Keymanthri Moodley and Theresa Rossouw COVID-19 vaccine supplies are available in various parts of the world. But it’s clear that…
Why the international community must stop legitimising despots in Africa
Africa cannot afford to continue with the authoritarian, dictatorial and despotic forms of governance that are predominant on the continent.
Can Tshisekedi successfully chair the AU while trying to assert his power at home?
Mohamed M Diatta On 6 February, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi will officially take over the…
Malawi setting up field hospitals to cope with virus surge
Malawi faces a resurgence of COVID-19 that is overwhelming the southern African country where a presidential residence and a national…
Africa’s scramble to bury virus dead, get vaccines
Shipping containers have become overflow mortuaries for the dead from COVID-19 in South Africa, while some other African nations are…
Young Nigerian content creator first winner of #ThisIsMyAfrica campaign
Nigerian content creator Adekola ‘McKennie’ John Kehinde has been voted the first monthly winner of Sasai’s #ThisIsMyAfrica campaign and is set…
South Africa can help Zimbabwe, but it must abandon ‘quiet’ diplomacy
By Ian ScoonesWestern diplomats’ holier-than-thou rhetoric is unlikely to help. South Africa can be more understanding, sensitive and practical. Zimbabwe’s…