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DA charges Helen Zille over colonialism tweets
South Africa’s main opposition party has formally charged its former leader with misconduct after a series of social media posts where she suggested colonialism brought benefits to the country. Helen Zille, the ex-head of the Democratic Alliance (DA) party and the current premier of the Western Cape province, could be…
Read More »World Autism Day highlights lack of resources in S Africa
Autism affects an estimated 70 million people worldwide. Sunday is World Autism Awareness Day, where campaigners highlight the disorder which causes sufferers to feel isolated from society. In South Africa, many children with special needs do not get the care they need owing to a lack of available resources. Al…
Read More »Why are African men and women still fleeing to Yemen?
Conflict has been raging in Yemen since 2015, yet people from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea remain undeterred to thread on the perilous routes only to encounter dangerous conditions when they get there. To paraphrase the Somali-British poet Warsan Shire, they continue to flee their lands, as home won’t let them…
Read More »Nigerian army in ‘final push’ to remove Boko Haram
Nigeria’s military has begun what it calls the “final offensive” to retake Boko Haram’s last strongholds. For years, Nigeria’s Sambisa Forest served as a hide-out for the armed group until they were pushed out by the army in December. Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow reports from northern Nigeria. The post Nigerian…
Read More »Suspects in arms depot raid claim torture, humiliation
About 20 Burkinabe soldiers on trial at a military tribunal over a failed raid on an arms depot last year have said they were tortured to extract their confessions. Almost all of them said they had suffered beatings, humiliation and food deprivation at the police camp where they were held…
Read More »Nigeria faces growing e-waste problem
In Nigeria, an entire industry thrives on the demand for imported second-hand electronic goods. Urban mining is when electronic items are broken apart and then stripped of precious metals such as gold, silver, palladium and others. This poses a danger to the environment and also to people’s health/ Al Jazeera’s…
Read More »South Africa: Protests erupt after President Zuma sacks ministers
The sacking of South Africa’s Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan , has divided the ruling ANC party and the South African public. Protesters took to the streets in the capital Pretoria after President Jacob Zuma’s overhaul of his Cabinet. Zuma called the sackings a ‘radical socio-economic transformation’. Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller…
Read More »Malusi Gigaba: Need to ‘radically transform economy’
South Africa’s new finance minister, Malusi Gigaba, said there was a need “to radically transform the South African economy” as pressure mounted on President Jacob Zuma after a dramatic cabinet reshuffle that rocked the country’s markets and currency. On Friday, Zuma, head of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), said he…
Read More »Bridging the gender gap in Science, Technology, and Engineering
Globally, there is a huge gap in respect of the percentage of women and girls studying Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) courses and pursuing carriers in the same fields. The gap is even wider in the developing countries of Africa, Asia and South America Twenty year old…
Read More »UN renews smaller DRC peacekeeping force
The United Nations Security Council has renewed the mandate of the peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) but decided to cut its numbers. The 15-member council on Friday unanimously renewed the $1.2bn mission for another year amid warnings that violence was spreading across the country ahead of…
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KACIG: Advancing a Whole-of-Society Approach to Strengthening Governance in Kano
The Kano Coalition for Climate Action and Inclusive Governance (KACIG) is charting a new …
