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Sub-Saharan Africa

The company Spiro has deployed over 80,000 electric motorcycles across several African countries. Other start-ups have been less successful.

Public infrastructure

Why impact start-ups tend to work best where they are needed least

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by Olumide Onitekun

Medicine shortage

Zambia’s health insurance dispute leaves patients stranded

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by Derrick Silimina
Mela for Her designes and manufactures reusable sanitary pads and menstrual underwear.

Ethiopia

“These menstrual health challenges require a market-based solution”

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by Kaleab Getaneh Zewelde
Nigeria is not the only country affected by sickle-cell disease: awareness campaign in Uganda in 2022.

Health

The high cost of sickle cell disease

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by Munyal Manunyi
An African journalist flies a kite at the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing.

Media

How China is expanding its media influence in Africa

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Soldiers wait for the funeral of Mali’s former defence minister, Sadio Camara, to begin. He died in an Islamist attack in Mali in April.

Conflict

Why military solutions keep failing in the Sahel

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by Olayinka Ajala

Gender equality

Speaking out about violence against women in Cameroon

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by Glein Neneng
The Chinese-built Entebbe Expressway in Uganda.

Africa

China is a main character, but Africa needs to write the script

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
A patient in isolation at a treatment centre in the province of Ituri, in eastern DRC.

Health

Ebola is not the only emergency

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by Jasmin Behrends
by Stephanie Johanssen
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