Tracking coronavirus in West Africa and beyond
BRUSSELS, 01 April 2021 – PRN Africa — Since the coronavirus outbreak, Elsi’s team have been using EU-backed SORMAS technology to track the spread of coronavirus in Nigeria. SORMAS ...
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Has ECOWAS made West Africa a safer place? Yes, but its track record i...
Benjamin Maiangwa, Durham University In an article published in 1994 titled The Coming Anarchy, the American journalist Robert Kaplan predicted an impending Armageddon for West Africa due to what he ...
Why we did it: the Kenyan women and girls who joined Al-Shabaab
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
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 ...
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 ...
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’
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...
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...
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...
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...