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Yes, teenagers account for 10% of deliveries in South Africa, but not half the maternal deaths
By: Africa Check 23rd January 2019 Many of the mothers who die during or shortly after childbirth are teenagers, the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government’s head of health said... →
What needs to be done to stop Zimbabwe's violent meltdown
22nd January 2019 Zimbabwe is sliding into a violent meltdown and it’s expected to worsen, unless there are some serious interventions. Days of mass protests have... →
South African commentators often don't understand the ANC -- or the country
22nd January 2019 Regular media as well as social media in South Africa have much to say about the governing African National Congress (ANC). But much of the... →
Will Sudan’s latest protests bring down Bashir?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 22nd January 2019 Street protests that started in the north-eastern Sudanese city of Atbara over bread and fuel price hikes on 19 December have snowballed into weeks... →
Making sense of the DRC's struggle for democracy
By: Creamer Media Reporter 21st January 2019 On January 10, amid much controversy, the national electoral commission announced that Félix Tshisekedi had won the Democratic Republic of the... →
Books paint contrasting pictures of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
21st January 2019 Writings on South African liberation struggle icon Winnie Mandela almost all fall into one of two categories – either hagiography or demonology.... →
Ramaphosa’s wooing of Zuma: does it spell problems for the country? 
By: Raymond Suttner 21st January 2019 Since the 2017 ANC conference held at Nasrec in Johannesburg, it has been clear that the organisation has not been united behind Cyril Ramaphosa as... →
Attack shows that al-Shabaab is still a potent threat to Kenya
18th January 2019 The terror attack in Nairobi was a tragedy. But also, to some extent, unexpected. Kenya suffered relatively frequent attacks between 2013 and 2016... →
The silent destruction of Senegal’s last forests
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 18th January 2019 Senegal’s Casamance region was once the breadbasket of this West African nation, known for its rich vegetation, biodiversity and expansive forests.... →
The real challenge facing the Eskom task team
By: Terence Creamer 18th January 2019 The most recent financial and operational crises at Eskom have brought to the fore the serious economic risks associated with relying on an entity... →
