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Will a more feminine touch do the trick for Africa?
Data from UN Women show that as of 10 January 2024, there are 26 countries where 28 women serve as...
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Saudi Arabia joins the Africa Scramble – But what’s in it for the continent?
Oil giant Saudi Arabia has started eying Africa like never before. The Kingdom hosted a Saudi-Arab-African economic conference in Riyadh...
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Russian boots on Burkina Faso soil: Putin takes Moscow-Africa ties to dizzying heights
On Wednesday, 24 January 2024, African Initiatives, a Kremlin-connected media outlet, reported the landing of 100 Russian soldiers in Ouagadougou,...
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Is Africa trapped in China’s ‘New Silk Road’ debt?
On 28 November 2023, Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group, expressed grave concern over Africa's...
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Has Africa become Putin’s willing pawn in Russia’s proxy war against Western democracies’ business interests on the continent?
BBC Newsnight & BBC Eye Investigations reported in the last third of February 2024 that Russia is offering governments in...
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Africa is too blessed to be poor, yet she is: What went wrong and how can the continent cultivate prosperity?
At the second edition of the Africa Prosperity Dialogues on Thursday, 25 January 2024, Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo...
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The politics of global warming, climate change national development
In recent times, the issue of climate change has become not only topical but a major security and existentialist issue...
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Burkina Faso: Russia officially back on favourable grounds
Russian diplomacy has been making itself felt in Burkina Faso since the last quarter of 2022. It all began when...
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Can Kiswahili, as a common language, rescue Garvey and Nkrumah’s United States of Africa dream?
Julius Sello Malema, the founder and leader of South Africa’s third-largest political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), in July...
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LGBTQIA+ and the Africa debate: Whiteman’s ‘Import’ or Africa’s ‘shadow’?
In November 2023, Cardinal Peter Turkson got tackled by his Ghanaian kith and kin for sounding, in the view of...
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