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Governance Challenges in Cabo Delgado: Spinning Wheels in the Mud

By: South African Institute of International Affairs      24th October 2024 Amid unrest surrounding Mozambique's election, the task of dealing with extremism in the country remains. Mozambicans went to the polls on 9... 

The Conversation

End of coal in South Africa: what 100,000 workers will need when their jobs go

23rd October 2024 South Africa’s move to renewable energy means that the coal industry will be phased out over the coming decades. This transition away from a... 

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Cameroon after Paul Biya: poverty, uncertainty and a precarious succession battle

23rd October 2024 Cameroon’s President Paul Biya is 91 years old. He is Africa’s oldest head of state and only one has served longer: President Teodoro Obiang Nguema... 

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Zimbabwe’s ZiG: devaluations won’t fix a currency that’s in trouble because of government overspending

23rd October 2024 The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe devalued the ZiG by 43% on 27 September 2024. This weakened the official exchange rate from 13.9 ZiG per US dollar to... 

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Latest elections widen Mozambique’s democratic deficit

By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies      23rd October 2024 SADC remains silent as electoral fraud, post-election violence and the murder of opposition figures undermine democracy. On 9 October, Mozambique... 

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South Africa must push agricultural exports within Brics

By: Econ3x3      23rd October 2024 South Africa has an export-led agricultural sector, with exports having been a major catalyst in the sector’s growth over the past three decades.... 

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South Africa’s unity government won’t dent poverty and inequality if it follows the same old policies – sociologist

22nd October 2024 A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was... 

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Education and gender equality: focus on girls isn’t fair and isn’t enough – global study

22nd October 2024 For the past two decades, investing in girls’ schooling has been hailed as a cornerstone of promoting gender equality in sub-Saharan Africa.... 

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The revived Luanda Process – inching towards peace in east DRC?

By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies      22nd October 2024 Rwanda-DRC talks have resumed, but whether they can shift the fundamental barriers to peace remains to be seen. The Luanda Process was established... 

Africa Check

No, photo of Somali man with gun not taken in South Africa

By: Africa Check     22nd October 2024 IN SHORT: A widely shared image of a man with a machine gun has been used to stoke xenophobic tensions in South Africa multiple times, including by... 

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