Raila Odinga, the leader of the Azimio la Umoja coalition in Kenya.
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The government and opposition have a duty to work towards creating a Kenya in which all citizens can live peacefully.
Slum-dwellers with high blood pressure struggle to get proper treatment.
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Hypertension is a manageable condition – but left untreated, it can damage organs such as the kidneys, heart and brain.
A scout from Kenya’s forest protection unit walks past mangrove tree stumps in Malindi.
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The Kenyan state has historically viewed forests in terms of production and economic development – not biodiversity and conservation.
Effective African economic development depends on economic integration and free movement of people.
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Immigration policy is so highly politicised that the South African government seems afraid to move.
Protesters in Kisumu confront police officers after Kenya’s disputed 2017 elections.
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Kenya’s inability to move past ethnic ideology has made it difficult to develop alternative bases for political organisation.
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Queer theory tells us that people’s identities are complex. If all research subjects are approached this way, we can understand their responses more fully.
Kenya’s first president Jomo Kenyatta waves at a crowd.
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Jomo Kenyatta and his successor Daniel arap Moi set the tone for ethnic and authoritarian politics which Kenya has wrestled to free itself from in recent decades.
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A world without pastoralists would not only be a poorer place, but we would lose an important lifeline to our collective future.
Increases in the number of women lawyers does not equate institutional change in the legal profession.
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Philanthropic investments must support the capacity of women in law and leadership.
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Africa contributes less than 1% of research worldwide on movement behaviours in children. This means that research on movement behaviours has largely excluded over 16% of the world’s population.
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Kenya’s experienced fast population growth and urbanisation - this has brought about some big challenges.
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In a world where economic sanctions make trade in US dollars almost impossible, gold has offered a way to evade these restrictions.
Kenya has over 18.2 million children and youth in educational institutions.
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Kenya’s budgetary allocation misses opportunities to improve basic education and address unemployment.
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Intelligence reports offer information that can avert threats to national security or promote national interests.
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Calls to secede have been heard from time to time in Kenya – most often around elections.
Activists protest outside the Ugandan Embassy in Washington DC on April 25, 2023.
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The Ugandan law is one of a spate of laws across Africa that are said to protect the heterosexual African family.
Africa’s secondary school enrolment rates still lag far behind those of other world regions’.
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The introduction of free education should follow a gradual process, starting with the lowest levels.
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African governments have more influence on China-funded projects than mainstream narratives acknowledge.
The oldest known footprint of our species, lightly ringed with chalk. It appears long and narrow because the trackmaker dragged their heel.
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This was an area in which early anatomically modern humans survived, evolved and thrived, before spreading out of Africa to other continents.
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Avoid ‘get-rich-quick’ schemes. They are, more often than not, bogus and fraudulent business ventures.