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Why we did it: the Kenyan women and girls who joined Al-Shabaab

March 29, 2021 no comments

Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen, Technical University of Mombasa The direct involvement of women and girls in terrorism has attracted increased interest as the nature of recruitment tactics has evolved. In ...

COVID-19: a new challenge for clean cooking progress in Kenya

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Suzanne Bartington, University of Birmingham; Jessie Pinchoff, Population Council, and William Robert Avis, University of Birmingham Over 90% of the 238 million people living in sub-Saharan Africa’s ...

Why South Africa’s HIV prevention programmes should include sex ...

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Monique Huysamen, Manchester Metropolitan University and Marlise Richter, University of the Witwatersrand There are around 150,000 sex workers in South Africa. The National Strategic Plan on HIV iden...

In Magufuli’s shadow: the stark choices facing Tanzania’s ...

March 29, 2021 no comments

Michaela Collord, University of Oxford and Thabit Jacob, Roskilde University The sudden death of Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli has thrown the East African nation into a period of political...

First Person: ‘No daughter of mine will be cut’

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NEW YORK, 26 March 2021 – PRN Africa — ‘I have never felt so much pain in my entire life’ “Today, I curse the practice of female genital mutilation, but as a child I act...

Biography of an outstanding President as Tanzania mourns the passing o...

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Africa mourns the death of His Excellency John Pombe Joseph Magufuli who has been the fifth President of the United Republic of Tanzania from 2015 until his death on 17th March 20...

Sierra Leone’s arrogant President withdraws security detail of t...

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Sierra Leone’s outstanding and highly reputable Mayor of Freetown, the capital city, Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr, has continuously been the victim of molestation and harassment by government offi...

Why East and West Africans are in favour of integration, and others ar...

March 27, 2021 1 comment

Rorisang Lekalake, University of Cape Town This year’s Africa Day message from African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma affirms the organisation’s commitment to political and econo...

UNAIDS Board adopts new global AIDS strategy which paves the way to en...

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GENEVA, 25 March 2021 – PRN Africa — The UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) has adopted by consensus a new Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026 to get every country and every community o...

CAR: a society without authority, where children’s schooling suf...

March 27, 2021 no comments

Marieke Hopman, Maastricht University The news from the Central African Republic (CAR) is rarely good. The country has been involved in an on-and-off war for at least 20 years. It has been rated as h...

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