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Sub-Saharan Africa

Advice mattered in pre-colonial times: 19th century Bambara king in consultation with elders.

Governance

In West Africa, authoritarian attitudes go back to colonial rule

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by Baba G. Jallow
Presidents Xi Jinping and Hakainde Hichilema in Beijing in September 2023.

Sovereign debt

Zambia’s difficult quest for debt restructuring

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by Beaulah N. Chombo
by Charles Chinanda

Fake News

Combating disinformation in South Africa’s elections

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu
The company Biovac produces vaccines in South Africa.

Local vaccine production

Success in Senegal and South Africa

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by Anna Lotte Böttcher
by Katja Pohlmann
Construction of a vaccine-production plant supported by Germany and the EU by Biontech and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar in the Dakar region, 2022.

Medical care

Supporting local vaccine production in Africa

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by Anna Lotte Böttcher
by Katja Pohlmann

Gender equality

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda

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by Stella Tushabe
As many as 250 people are accommodated in these hangars. There is no protected area for women – sexual assaults are a regular occurrence.

Humanitarian crisis

Risking collapse

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by Fabian Böckler
Tamikrest in Hamburg.

Music

The desert alliance

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
A protest four years ago in Cape Town. The situation has not improved much.

Corruption

How to challenge a corrupt system

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by Hafte Gebreselassie Gebrihet
by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
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