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Education and gender equality: focus on girls isn’t fair and isn’t enough – global study
22nd October 2024 For the past two decades, investing in girls’ schooling has been hailed as a cornerstone of promoting gender equality in sub-Saharan Africa.... →
The revived Luanda Process – inching towards peace in east DRC?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 22nd October 2024 Rwanda-DRC talks have resumed, but whether they can shift the fundamental barriers to peace remains to be seen. The Luanda Process was established... →
No, photo of Somali man with gun not taken in South Africa
By: Africa Check 22nd October 2024 IN SHORT: A widely shared image of a man with a machine gun has been used to stoke xenophobic tensions in South Africa multiple times, including by... →
Some you win, some you lose
22nd October 2024 There is an old saying that there are weeks when nothing happens, and then there are days when weeks happen. The first 2 weeks of October were days... →
Africa gets its chance to lead the Commonwealth
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 21st October 2024 Africa takes the reins for the first time in 20 years, but will the new secretary-general adopt a more assertive stance? The Commonwealth holds its... →
What to Expect from the 2024 Brics Summit
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 21st October 2024 As the 2024 Brics Summit approaches, SAIIA highlights the key issues and debates that will shape the agenda. As the 2024 Brics Summit in Kazan,... →
South Africa’s 36.1% electricity price hike for 2025: why the power utility Eskom’s request is unrealistic
18th October 2024 South Africa’s state-owned electricity company, Eskom, has applied to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa to approve a 36.1% electricity... →
Whole greater than sum of parts
By: Terence Creamer 18th October 2024 The official launch of the National Transmission Company South Africa as an independent subsidiary of Eskom Holdings did indeed represent an... →
Single-cause issues and the problem of collective action
By: Saliem Fakir 18th October 2024 In his book, How Neoliberalism Failed, and What a Better Society Could Look Like, which critiques neoliberal policies and explores alternatives for... →
Egypt-Ethiopia hostilities are playing out in the Horn – the risk of new proxy wars is high
17th October 2024 Egypt recently deepened its involvement in the war-weary Horn of Africa by arming Somalia and deploying its troops in the embattled country. To... →
