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Health care

21/04/2022 – by Benjamin M. Kagina

Covid-19 vaccine rollout: upsides and downsides in Africa

Sub-Saharan healthcare systems tend to be weak, but vaccinations help to make people’s lives safer

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Wedding grants

04/04/2022 – by Moutaz Ali, Amel Sabri

Love or money

Controversial government subsidy leads to wave of weddings in Libya

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Refugees

20/03/2022 – by Mona Naggar

Stop double standards in EU refugee policy

The Arab world is upset that refugees are treated differently in the EU according to skin colour and religion

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Al-Sisi regime

18/03/2022 – by Sofian Philip Naceur

How Cairo spies on regime critics online

Egyptian regime uses spyware against critics – some of it bought from European companies

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Egypt

17/03/2022 – by Sofian Philip Naceur

How Egyptian media workers are intimidated systematically

Egypt’s regime severely restricts freedom of expression, forcing media to toe its line

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Military security

13/03/2022 – by Vladimir Antwi-Danso, Hans Dembowski

Moscow tries to counter western interests

West Africa scholar explains why global trends are giving rise to “systemic coups” in his world region

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Development cooperation

17/02/2022 – by Conrad Schetter, Katja Mielke

In spite of the Taliban, Afghanistan deserves help

To support Afghanistan’s people, international community should restart development cooperation

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Covid-19

08/02/2022 – by Ben Ezeamalu

African Covid-19 containment strategies have failed

Africa has low coronavirus mortality rates, but frightfully low vaccination rates too

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Humanitarian crisis

18/01/2022 – by Jörg Döbereiner

UN calls for massive funding for Afghanistan

In order to tackle the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, a record amount of $ 4.4 billion for 2022 needs to be raised

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Emancipation

11/01/2022 – by Mona Naggar

Women are slowly asserting themselves in MENA region

In Arab countries, examples prove that patriarchal family traditions can indeed be changed

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Syria

23/12/2021 – by Dagmar Wolf

No part of Syria is safe for returnees

Amnesty International reports that Syrians returning to their country are subjected to arbitrary detention, torture and enforced disappearance

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