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Across Africa, Reporters Without Borders has documented sustained online harassment and surveillance targeting women journalists in West Africa, noting that digital abuse has become an emerging barrier to press freedom.

China is making a deliberate attempt to weave Africa into its global EV map — not just as a supplier, but as a distribution hub and consumer base.

"Because I decided to speak up, I am jobless. I was ostracized and frustrated to accept the norm. To remain silent is to be complicit..."

A United Nations Women poll found that 58 percent of girls and young women have experienced at least one form of online harassment, often before they turn twenty-five.

If the COVID-19 pandemic taught Africa anything, it is that when the next global health crisis hits, no one is coming to save her.

In terms of gender gap rankings, Sub-Saharan Africa ranks sixth globally, with a gender parity score of 68.0 percent. Namibia leads the continent, achieving 81.1 percent gender parity...

“When I was fighting for my South African citizenship, the department told me, ‘There's nothing we can do for you. To us, basically, you don't even exist.’”

...there has been a growing rise in violence against women and girls since 2023, and there have been the highest levels of intimate partner and family-related femicide in Africa...

Centuries of being overshadowed and misrepresented by colonial and other external perspectives have portrayed the continent through a lens of primitivism and inferiority. Such depictions served to justify colonial subjugation and exploitation.

African cinema generates approximately USD 5 billion annually but has the potential to grow to USD 20 billion and create 20 million jobs per year.

The South African High Court ruled that the poor air quality violates citizens' constitutional right to an environment that is safe for their health and well-being.

Increasingly, citizens are prioritizing accountability and performance over party loyalty, using their votes and voices to demand change from governments that fail to address corruption, inefficiency, and unmet promises.

Preserving a language has multiple elements. It’s about ensuring that scripts are digitized, so that we can read and write a language online — this might include scanning and digitizing analog books, as well as designing contemporary fonts.

The creative economy provides jobs across several sub-sectors, including music, art, cinema, and video games, which generate millions, even billions, of US dollars.