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Giant telescope’s mobile-phone ‘dead zones’ rile South Africans
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Because sensitive radio dishes of the Square Kilometer Array will affect phone reception and could harm local economies, according to farmers.
A...
Frieze proves UK-South African ties remain strong
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Because South African artists are enjoying a growth in overseas interest, as seen in London in October.
While Brexit continues to...
Nigeria’s INEC postpones elections, shocks Nigerians
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Because Nigeria is Africa's largest country by population size and its biggest economy. A potentially fractious election can impact sociopolitical stability...
Science in Africa: prioritizing homegrown solutions and talent
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Because Africans have long established indigenous scientific methods and practices, but receive little recognition. African scientists working within modern scientific traditions...
POLITICS
Guinea-Bissau votes for president
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Because hundreds of thousands of voters hope that the election will end four years of political in-fighting that almost paralyzed governance...
Nigeria’s Buhari Begins Second Presidential Term
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Because Buhari's second-term inauguration is consequential for the continent being the biggest economy on the continent. With Buhari's inauguration, Nigeria has...
Nigeria Holds Supplementary Elections
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Because Nigeria's 2019 national elections, particularly state elections were characterized by varying levels of violence, forcing the Independent National Electoral Commission...
BUSINESS
US effort to counter China’s economic influence in Africa
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Because the United States and China are increasingly in fierce competition for the hearts and economies of Africa, but their strategies...
Africa’s airline industry, weakest in the world
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Because Africa's airline industry is underperforming, giving room for foreign airlines to dominate its air...
Kenya to develop blue economy’s potential
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Because the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Kenya will likely address challenges to Africa's blue economy and create awareness about the...
ENVIRONMENT
China’s ‘Belt and Road’: The noose around Africa’s neck
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Because Africa is the continent least responsible, but most vulnerable to climate change, which means that Beijing's 'Belt and Road Initiative',...
Improved husbandry practices boosts Kenyan aquaculture
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Because African countries have often paid little attention to the environment. The measures Kenya is taking to preserve fish species and...
Intensifying wildfires: The new normal?
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Because global wildfires may be the new normal.
Germany's public broadcaster Deutsche Welle joins forces with OZY to pique the curiosity of...
HEALTH
Congo’s Ebola outbreak 2nd largest in history
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Because despite efforts to control the spread of the deadly disease, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo is still...
UNICEF: Children in CAR desperate, deprived
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Because the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) has more invisible scars than the visible ones. Even after a conflict...
Gunfire, threats and curfews slow Congo’s fight against Ebola
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Because fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) limits health workers access to populations likely affected by the disease, which...
EDUCATION
ASUU Strike: Stalemate continues
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Because public universities in Nigeria have been shut for over a month over funding dispute.Several high-level meetings between belligerents have been...
Scant educational opportunities for disabled children in Nigeria
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Because disability in Nigeria carry a social stigma that limits children's access to educational opportunities, and gainful employment outside of school.
Dotun...
Why are young people having so little sex?
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Because despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession,...
ART & CULTURE
Netflix’s African all-girl spy children’s animation
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Because this will be Netflix's first children's animation from Africa, which is written by women and features an all-girl spy team. This...
Sir David Adjaye honour’s Hugh Masekela
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Because the Masekela family, in collaboration with Design Indaba, will be unveiling a memorial pavilion honoring the life of the iconic...
Salif Keita: ‘Democracy is not a good thing for Africa’
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Because the ‘golden voice of Africa,’ who has just released his final album and is still in love with his guitar,...
SCIENCE & INNOVATION
Why NASA chose Senegal for asteroid research
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Because dozens of scientists from NASA and France, along with five tons of astronomical equipment descended on Dakar, Senegal in August...
South Africa pushes science to improve daily life
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Because sweeping policy changes in South Africa aim to refocus research efforts on poverty, unemployment, drought and other national problems.
South...
Putting Nigerian neuroscience research under the microscope
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Because Nigerian scientists are doing incredibly innovative work in neuroscience, despite austere and hostile conditions, but receive very little recognition.
Researchers are...
VIOLENCE
ISWA Kills Scores of Nigerian Soldiers
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Because Islamist State in West Africa (ISWA) fighters have continued their run of successful attacks against Nigeria's security forces, likely prolonging...
A Review of Major Regional Security Efforts in the Sahel
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Because increased attacks from militant Islamist groups in the Sahel coupled with cross-border challenges such as trafficking, migration, and displacement have...
Confronting Central Mali’s Extremist Threat
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Because the Macina Liberation Front poses a major threat to stability in Mali and the Sahel by exploiting a potent mix...
SPORTS
13 Teams Already Qualified for 2019 AFCON
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Because the 2019 African Nations Cup will be the most competed in Africa's football history. It will showcase talents that possibly...
Pharrell Williams’ Adidas collection adopts East Africa
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Because rarely do African countries feature prominently in global cultural products.
Musician and fashion designer Pharrell Williams has collaborated with Adidas on a collection of brightly...
Qualified teams prepare for AFCON with friendlies
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Because the friendlies provide opportunities to assess countries' preparations and to meet some of the greatest football talents on the continent.
Five...
TRAVEL
Salif Keita: ‘Democracy is not a good thing for Africa’
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Because the ‘golden voice of Africa,’ who has just released his final album and is still in love with his guitar,...
Africa’s airline industry, weakest in the world
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Because Africa's airline industry is underperforming, giving room for foreign airlines to dominate its air...
Benin Bronzes are virtuoso art & history
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Because Benin Art, particularly its bronze art is world renown. During the colonial conquest, an enormous collection of priceless Benin art...
MAGAZINE
Implications of China’s One Belt One Road Strategy for Africa
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Because China's Belt and Road initiative offers China greater inroad into Africa, likely advancing Chinese geopolitical interests while whittling US (and...
Salif Keita: ‘Democracy is not a good thing for Africa’
WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
Because the ‘golden voice of Africa,’ who has just released his final album and is still in love with his guitar,...
5 Women Writers Ushering New Wave of African Stories on Stage
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Because "African stories, like African people, can be absolutely everything," and African women writers are breaking new grounds and redefining the...