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Africa
Podcast: The challenges faced by small-scale fishers
The small-scale fishers that feed coastal communities worldwide face mounting threats, from disputed waters to climate change
The fight for fish in Cameroon’s disputed waters
Along Cameroon’s coastline, a battle for once-rich waters is taking place, pitting artisanal fishers against huge industrial trawlers
The rise of life-changing social circuses
Zip zap circus in South Africa is one of a growing number of ‘social circuses’ that is transforming the lives of marginalised youths
Review: Africa is Not a Country by Dipo Faloyin
Kit Gillet reviews the new book by Dipo Faloyin, Africa is Not a Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa, published by Harvill Secker
Can community trekking tourism boost livelihoods in Tigray, Ethiopia?
The development of community trekking promises a blessed future for the people in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.
Tensions mount over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Tim Marshall investigates how the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is creating tension between Ethiopia and Egypt.
Modern Africa is so much more than outdated stereotypes
Modern Arica now has a solid middle class, coinciding with more aid for development and an end of the wars that had dogged the continent
The unsettling sources of the Nile
The commonly held view of Lake Victoria in East Africa as being the source of the Nile isn’t quite as clear cut as many would believe
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