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Africa: When Myths Reach Communities Before Evidence, New CSE Platform Tries to Change the Conversation

Africa: When Myths Reach Communities Before Evidence, New CSE Platform Tries to Change the Conversation

Mombasa, Kenya — What happens when the first thing a parent hears about comprehensive sexuality education is that it teaches children to have sex? Or when a faith leader encounters CSE through a social media post warning that it is foreign, anti-family, or incompatible with African values? For organisations working on sexual and reproductive health…

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Africa: Burhan’s Dialogue Is Not a Path to Stability

Africa: Burhan’s Dialogue Is Not a Path to Stability

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has discovered dialogue again. After years of promises, a military coup, emergency rule, war rhetoric and political exclusion, Sudan’s army chief now says he wants a comprehensive dialogue inside the country to complete a civilian democratic transition. Al Jazeera reported proposals to drop death-penalty charges against opposition leaders and form a…

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Post Office wants out of rescue anyway

Post Office wants out of rescue anyway

The South African Post Office is trying to leave business rescue without a single committed private sector partner, without guaranteed government funding and with an unresolved statutory creditor claim that two funds are now using to oppose its exit. That was the picture that emerged on Tuesday when the Post Office, its business rescue practitioners…

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Zambia elections: Hakainde Hichilema re-elected president as main rival goes into hiding over alleged threats

Zambia elections: Hakainde Hichilema re-elected president as main rival goes into hiding over alleged threats

Zambia has a record of peaceful transfers of power. Since the return to multiparty democracy in 1991, presidential transitions have occurred through the ballot box. It is unclear if the opposition will challenge the election result. Mundubile had earlier alleged there had been discrepancies between polling-station results and those officially announced and claimed military involvement…

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