Africa is far from having an ageing farming population. What is missing is a critical mass of skilled, young farmers with access to finance who could drive productivity in farming.
AirQo monitoring system on a ‘boda boda’.
Makerere University
Many of the tools needed to tap into the potential of Africa’s livestock sector exist already.
The Thusong Multipurpose Center in Khayelitsha which will serve as a COVID-19 site in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Involving senior health science students in the everyday practice helped address the workload in facilities, improved quality of patient care, and increased patient and staff satisfaction.
Parts of Kenya have flooded as a result of Lake Victoria’s rising levels.
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The fact that teachers in Uganda’s rural schools weren’t trained in the local language means they can’t teach children in their mother tongue and this leads to poor literacy acquisition.
Ugandan activist and writer Stella Nyanzi outside a Kampala court after a ruling in her favour against President Yoweri Museveni
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Rebecca Tapscott, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
When protesters strip naked to amplify their political voice, it is often a last resort within very restrictive regimes.
A military officer distributes maize flour in Kampala, Uganda, where the urban poor have been affected by the lockdown.
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Africa is facing a profound crisis that could set its development back a generation. It needs a solution to its debt problems that doesn’t cripple countries.
The refugee-led organisation YARID delivering food and other items to refugees in Kampala.
YARID
International financing for massive infrastructure projects can create new problems for African cities.
An activist poses for the camera outside Botswana High Court which ruled in favour of decriminalising homosexuality in June 2019.
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By pushing their usually valid complaints onto the streets and the courts, opposition leaders deny governments the popular goodwill and international credibility they need to govern effectively.