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Khartoum: the creation and the destruction of a modern African city
Smoke rises from Sudan’s capital as conflict grips Khartoum. Abdelmoneim Sayed/AFP via Getty Images Amira Osman, Tshwane University of Technology…
Millions of young South Africans are jobless: study finds that giving them ‘soft’ skills like networking helps their prospects
Study finds that soft rather than technical skills are more effective in getting rural youth jobs. GettyImages Chijioke Nwosu, University…
China’s population has peaked and is now falling – opportunities and risks for Africa
Oleg Elkov/GettyImages Lauren Johnston, University of Sydney China will no longer be the world’s most populous nation. India’s population will…
US laws to promote home-grown industries will hurt African economies
Thursday, 06 July 2023 22:43 Written by THECONVERSATION Shutterstock Jonathan Munemo, Salisbury University The Biden administration has ratcheted up protectionism and industrial policy amid surging economic tensions with…
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China in Africa: Kenya railway study shows investment projects aren’t a one-way street
Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images Gediminas Lesutis, University of Amsterdam and Zhengli Huang, Tongji University China is an important economic…
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China in Africa: Kenya railway study shows investment projects aren’t a one-way street
Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images Gediminas Lesutis, University of Amsterdam and Zhengli Huang, Tongji University China is an important economic…
Wagner group mercenaries in Africa: why there hasn’t been any effective opposition to drive them out
Wagner has assisted rebel leader Khalifa Hiftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces. GettyImages John F. Clark, Florida International University It is…
China’s population grew older and richer: policy lessons for some African countries
China’s population peaked, and is now falling. Tang Ke/VCG via Getty Images Lauren Johnston, University of Sydney For decades China…
Gold fraud: the Goldenberg scam that cost Kenya billions of dollars in the 1990s – and no one was jailed
Shutterstock Roman Grynberg, Griffith University and Fwasa K Singogo, Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) The Goldenberg scandal in the…
Mosul faced mass heritage destruction by the Islamic State. We asked residents what they thought about rebuilding
After the Islamic State captured the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in mid-2014, they unleashed a wave of devastating human…
