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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has renewed its efforts to clamp down on the rising use of cryptocurrencies in the country and has forced the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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By Priyal Singh In December 2020, South Africa ended its two-year term as an elected member on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) – the

By Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara The US NASA Perseverance Rover safely landed on Mars on 18 February 2021 after a 470.7 million-kilometre-journey from Earth, which

By Monica Orisadare Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has become the first woman and the first African to be chosen as director general of the World Trade

By Victor Harison and Mario Pezzini Many African countries reacted quickly and effectively to mitigate the health and economic risks posed by COVID-19. Less well documented is

Fighting big pharma over Covid-19 vaccine access
The domination of global medicine by major pharmaceutical companies needs to be confronted to provide fairer access to vaccines, a leading South African official has

By Fifa Rahman, Felicita Hikuam, Nyasha Chingore-Munazvo, and Gisa Dang* The COVID-19 pandemic is a bleak reminder of the enduring inequity in global public health.

South Africa’s Audit Bureau of Circulations data for the fourth quarter of 2020 is harrowing: there will be no rebound for print, and newspapers in

Linking Africa and African history to its contemporary placement in international relations is now rarely done, not least in Zimbabwe’s case with its peculiar pariah
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