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Security-focused modernisation has failed in Afghanistan

An attempt to build peace in Afghanistan – with the Taliban

Identity checks

Securing Ghana’s borders

New identity checks at Ghana’s border crossings are causing confusion

Infrastructure

Railway to nowhere

Why Kenya’s ambitious cross-country railway is controversial

Development finance

Massive Chinese lending

Kenyans worry about Chinese loans needed for prestigious railway project

Marginalisation

Living on the land – but not owning it

Zimbabwe’s women face resistance to exercising their rights to own land

National budget

Stadiums versus clinics

Controversy about how to spend public money in Malawi

Populist delusions

Self-declared "patriot" wants "globalist" help

The absurdity of what Trump just said at the UN needs to be pointed out

Syncretism

Religious pluralism serves peace

Africans practise a mixture of traditional animist beliefs and monotheistic religion

Blog

Self-pitying majority

K.S. Komireddi argues stringently that India's current government is driven by a dangerous Hindu-supremacist ideology

Rule of law

Reports of torture

In Ghana, juvenile offenders are kept in prisons for adults which is against the law

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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.