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Awarding punitive costs against legal practitioners would make them think twice about facilitating delaying tactics and malicious lawsuits.
Rongai’s rapid development has happened without services keeping pace, and the rivers have paid the price.
Efforts have been made to change the patterns of inequality in South Africa. But not enough has been done. Race-based inequality is still a real problem.
Kenya’s confidence crisis is a problem because people need to believe the judiciary is acting independently if it is to play its role.
Climate change is putting pressure on Ethiopia’s largest city, Addis Ababa, and exposing people to disease and natural disasters.
Trans-border collaboration is required to recover protected areas that transverse Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin Republic from armed groups.
Current reforms in Tanzania lack popular participation and legal safeguards.
No matter how clean an election is, Nigerian politicians typically challenge the result.
A rapid exit of AU troops from Somalia could hand a battlefield and propaganda advantage to al-Shabaab.
Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections look like their predecessors: stolen. But this one is a bit different. Opposition strategies and regional responses have changed too. What does this mean for the future?
Armed police interventions are unconstitutional and incapable of addressing housing and safety in the inner city.
Africa has made good progress towards reducing maternal mortality and newborn deaths over the past decade. But climate change is reversing the gains.
The rhetoric that presents the Amhara people as a national enemy has gone on, unchallenged, for far too long.
Indigenous knowledge of spiritual protection could help fight crime.
Africa’s future looks catastrophic if we don’t act now on climate change.
The French president has struggled to maintain the influence his country gained in Africa through colonialism.
Ghanaians measure the quality of education by examination scores.
Ali Bongo’s illness, the contagion effect of other recent successful coups and palace power tussles are factors responsible for Gabon’s recent coup.
The birth rate was lower and the death rate markedly higher in areas outside government control in the Central African Republic.
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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