The death of a 14-year-old girl, Anna Machaya, while giving birth in 2021, sparked national outrage and put the spotlight on the practice of child marriages within Zimbabwe’s Apostolic church, which also often rejects...
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Food for thought
Food taboos exist in virtually all societies as beliefs and practices prohibiting the consumption of specific ingredients (or combinations thereof) for religious and/or cultural reasons. Violations unleash strict...
Understanding the Nigerian petrol industry’s new legal landscape
How does the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU), introduced by Chevron Nigeria, and the Nigerian Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) protect communities in the oil-rich Niger Delta? Deji Haastrup explains in the PDF...
Angola’s oil riches stream into the pockets of an entrenched elite
Oil-rich Angola is one of the most talked-about investment destinations in Africa, but behind the economic boom there is an impoverished and disenfranchised population burdened with some of the worst social indicators...
Economic downturn in Ghana
Managers of Ghana’s economy are being called to rise to the occasion in the face of worsening economic fundamentals across all critical sectors of the economy. From the downgrading of credit ratings to the depreciation...
Russia in Ukraine: South Africa’s unprincipled stance
The South African government’s policy on Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine comes in the context of its record on human rights internationally, which is a sorry tale. In the pursuit of its own agenda...
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