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Life president: NRM Presidential Candidate Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, together with the First Lady Maama Janet Museveni, arrive at Buziga Islamic School grounds, Makindye Division, to kick off election campaigns. Photo: National Resistance Movement

Africa 2026: polls sans choice, jobs

In addition, some of the continent’s wars show little sign of resolution

  • Eyaaz
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Every day, Congolese refugees, mostly women and children, arrive at the Musenyi site. The site has a capacity of 10,000 people, but by the end of April it was hosting more than 15,000 refugees. Photo: Dorine Niyungeko/ MSF

How to respond to sexual assault survivors

Many women and girls have survived sexual violence perpetrated by armed groups and armed forces in DRC, when fleeing to Burundi, and incidents have also been reported in the refugee site

  • Eyaaz
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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is expected to be the Horn of Africa country’s solution to acute power shortages, but it brings problems for downstream countries . (Flickr)

Abiy Ahmed touts Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as showcase of African excellence

The dam is expected to be the Horn of Africa country’s solution to acute power shortages, but it brings problems for downstream countries

  • Eyaaz
3 min read
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. A 0.3% tax would generate enough to secure life’s necessities for many tens of millions of the world’s most vulnerable. Photo: File

G20, endorse a tax on the world’s ultra-rich to feed the world’s starving

A 0.3% tax would generate enough to secure life’s necessities for many tens of millions of the world’s most vulnerable

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Children in Africa are exposed to violence such as armed conflict, with some children recruited as child soldiers. Photo: Stefanie Glinski/AFP

Safeguard the rights and welfare of Africa’s children

About 50% of the continent’s children have experienced violence – emotional, sexual, physical and the added dangers of war

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A woman looks at the wall of the names of people killed in the Rwanda genocide. Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

Address ethnic extremism to prevent another genocide in the Great Lakes region

Countries such as Uganda, South Sudan and the DRC must learn from the devastating 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

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Salva Kiir and Riek Machar hold the nation’s fate in their hands. Again. (X)

In South Sudan, the same two old men beat the same old war drums

Salva Kiir and Riek Machar hold the nation’s fate in their hands. Again

  • Eyaaz
4 min read