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The keys to universal health coverage

Jakaya Kikwete, former president of Tanzania, urges national leaders to focus on improving primary care

Reuters

The way forward

100 years after the end of German colonialism in Namibia, the two countries are edging closer to reconciliation

By Peter H. Katjavivi

Reuters

Like a cat with nine lives

Nigerian history had its ups and downs. But celebrating 58 years of independence now, its democracy is here to stay

Reuters

Human rights, interrupted

Arabs are thirsting for democracy and social justice. So why are human rights viewed with such hostility in the Arab world?

By Mohamed Adel Mtimet

Reuters

Take Africa seriously!

Germany‘s Africa policy is still stuck in old models and urgently needs a paradigm shift. Six recommendations

By Robert Kappel

Reuters

Refugees as entrepreneurs

In northern Kenya, the arrival of refugees drives the economic development of impoverished areas

By Bettina Rühl

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Vulnerable poor communities are the real climate leaders

Alternative Nobel Prize laureate Nnimmo Bassey on global warming, false techno-optimism and the Global South

By Nnimmo Bassey

EPA

More of the same?

The first election in Zimbabwe after Mugabe's 37-year rule probably won't deliver more democracy

By Ulrich Golaszinski

EPA

Holding Nigeria to ransom

A second mass abduction of schoolgirls in Nigeria raises questions about the state’s ability to keep its citizens safe

By Ulrich Thum and Ugonna Obi-Emeruwa and Marvin Lantz

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An end to linguistic loyalties

Why Nigeria is aligning with Cameroon against secessionists