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Africa and the challenge of achieving access to clean water and sanitation

Africa presently reels under serious water challenges. Water-based challenges such as widespread shortage, pollution, degradation, flooding and poor water management in cities and rural centres are problems which dot the African landscape today. This state of affairs is further compounded...

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Defence corruption: The AU’s next fight

Corruption is a major unseen contributor to insecurity, instability and conflict. Seifeddine Rezgui, the man who recently killed 37 tourists at the Imperial Marhaba hotel in Tunisia,was able to travel unimpeded into Libya for military training and to gain access...

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ID for Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Africa

An official identity is essential for any person to participate in a modern economy and to access basic rights and services. It empowers people to vote, register assets, own bank accounts and travel. Adequate ID systems also help governments to...

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Accelerating Industrial Development In Africa

Africa is highly diverse in its economic, social and political structures. But the continent’s countries share common characteristics and face similar challenges, such as low levels of socio-economic development, high vulnerability to risks and persistent gender inequality. Africa also remains...

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`Third termism` in Africa and its socio-economic impact

Democracy and governance often thrive if there is respect for the rule of law from the executive trickling down. Any constitutional republic has its soul in the supreme law of the land – the constitution. Respect and upholding the constitution is critical for the healthy functioning of any democratic nation.

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Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa 2024 (STISA-2024)

The Constitutive Act establishing the African Union recognises the ever-growing urgency to collectively address the global social, economic and environmental challenges across our national boundaries. Governments cannot single-handedly tackle these global challenges – such as food and nutrition insecurity;, neglected...

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Managing records as the evidence base for development: access and integrity in the digital environment

Every public sector policy maker, auditor, court official and criminal investigator knows the importance of being able to find, use and trust official records as evidence of policies, actions, transactions, expenditure, precedents and rights. And yet, little if any attention...

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The Open Government Partnership and socio-economic development: A perspective from African countries

One of the enduring challenges faced by the African continent in lifting millions out of poverty is this: how do you ensure that Africa’s natural endowments are used to benefit Africans directly? It is the conundrum of all time that...

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Deploying E-Government Technology in Africa

What we today call information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been with us even here in Africa since the advent of radios, telephones and telegrams (telex) in colonial times and much later television, computers and smartphones. The incident of the...

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Why should we worry about the capacity of public institutions in Africa and what can we do about it?

Africa has undoubtedly registered significant achievements since the turn of the century. Notwithstanding this success story, the continent still faces daunting economic, social, political, security and environmental challenges. Research shows that many African countries have for a long time had...

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Raising Revenue in Africa: New solutions to old problems

Introduction: The problem of revenue generation in Africa Raising revenue to fund government salaries, infrastructure projects and public services is one of the core tasks of any state. However, in Africa a shallow and narrow tax base has undermined the...

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Democracy and Good Governance as Tools for Africa’s Development: The role of the African Peer Review Mechanism

At the turn of the millennium, Africa faced an array of challenges, not least the eradication of poverty and the urgent need to foster socio-economic development. The adoption of the Constitutive Act of the African Union in 2000, which established...

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COVID-19 in AFRICA

AU Appoints Special Envoys to Mobilise International Economic Support for Continental Fight Against COVID-19

COVID-19 cases in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region have increased by 43%

Update Kenya: Government extends ban on international flights for another 30 days

African Development Bank approves $2 million emergency assistance for WHO-led measures to curb COVID-19 in Africa

African finance ministers: urgent need for $100bn immediate emergency financing for COVID-19

Africa’s Pulse – An Analysis Of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future

Africa’s Pulse – An Analysis Of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future

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Transforming Africa’s Socio-Economic Landscape Through Entrepreneurialism

Transforming Africa’s Socio-Economic Landscape Through Entrepreneurialism

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