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04 November 2026
The Conversation
Public engagement is about listening, not just explaining the science.
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03 November 2026
The Conversation
Households with certain assets can diversify into activities that produce higher incomes.
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03 November 2026
The Guardian
Timau’s industry has provided local Kenyans with an economic lifeline. But now, many believe it has made them seriously ill
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20 October 2026
The Conversation
Monitoring boats on African waters is the easy part; the harder part is what comes next.
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21 October 2026
African Arguments
On 9 February 2021, as government troops and Russian mercenaries pushed rebels back from Bangui, the Central African Republic (CAR) signed Decree No. 21.044. It gave a young company called Bois Rouge a forestry permit covering 186,596 hectares in the south-western Lobaye region – roughly 1,866 km² of tropical forest, an area larger than Greater London. Bois Rouge had never logged a tree. What it had, according to the US Treasury, was a patron: the concession was granted in exchange for services the Wagner Group provided to the CAR, at about the same time Wagner fighters and government forces were […]
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14 October 2026
AlJazeera English
Foot-and-mouth disease threatens livestock farmers’ livelihoods and disrupts meat supplies as authorities impose curbs.
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28 October 2026
AlJazeera English
The metal is generating billions, but mining communities say basic services have failed to keep pace.
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09 October 2026
The New Times
A total of 364,569 land boundary corrections have been recorded since 2020, as discrepancies dating back to Rwanda's initial land registration exercise continue to emerge...
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19 October 2026
The Elephant
The decisive question is no longer simply whether foreign powers are present in Africa. They are.
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28 September 2026
Zimbabweland
At the UN General Assembly last week, a group of world-renown economists together with the governments of South Africa, Brazil, Norway and Spain demanded that inequality be taken seriously with the…
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