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Africa Books: The Rise of Africa’s Middle Class

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An underwater view of fishes and coral reef in the Red Sea near Marsa Alam, Egypt

It is time to save our oceans

Fishermen in Inhaca Island, Mozambique.

Overfishing destroying livelihoods

A man sorting a sea of plastic bottles at one of the Wecycler hubs in Lagos, Nigeria. Most plastic litter from cities ends up in oceans.

Plastics pose biggest threat to oceans

The Sahel has been battered by drought due to climate change.

Africa feeling the heat of climate change

Peter Thomson , the 71st president of the United Nations General Assembly. AR/Eleni Mourdoukoutas

Ocean Conference: Our best and last chance to get things right

Salva Dut (left) pumps water from one of the boreholes he has helped drill in South Sudan. Photo: Water for South Sudan

How South Sudan’s ‘lost boy’ brought water to his village

An administrative building at the new Diamniadio industrial park in Dakar, Senegal. Photo: Reuters/Nellie Peyton

Urban growth a boon for Africa’s industrialization

SDG14 economic development

An advertisement for a mobile phone money transfer company hangs over stalls of fruit and vegetables at a covered market in Kigali, Rwanda. Photo: Panos/Sven Torfinn

Africa’s quest for a cashless economy gains momentum

SDG14 economic development

Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, head of UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Africa. Photo: UNDP/Freya Morales

Global economic gravity rapidly pulling towards Africa

economic development

A flooded road. Photo: AMO/B. Karlie

Disaster insurance against climate change attracts African countries

economic development

Fumani Mthembi, one of the founders of Pele Energy Group. Photo: Tsidi Bishop

Young South Africans investing in lucrative renewable energy sector

Baby elephants “play soccer” as they graze at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: AMO/Stephen Mudiari Kasabuli

Conservationists take aim at poachers

A retired couple go through their financial files. Photo: AMO/George Philipas

Pension funds, insurance companies as key drivers of regional integration

economic development

Fatou Bensouda, ICC Prosecutor (left) and James Stewart, ICC Deputy Prosecutor. Photo: ICC

ICC: Beyond the threats of withdrawal

The Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh (in white) prepares to depart from Banjul airport to exile in Guinea Bissau on January 21, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Thierry Gouegnon

Gambia’s democracy survives political turbulence

A farmer in the drought-affected area of Senegal watering plants. Photo: UN Photo/Carl Purcell

Paris Agreement on climate change: One year later, how is Africa faring?

A Kenyan teacher checks his mobile phone while guarding his cattle. Photo: Panos/Sven Torfinn

Africa’s digital rise hooked on innovation

An official checks data from an internet-based water monitoring device at a borehole in Basbedo, Burkina Faso. Photo: Panos/Andrew McConnell

The Internet of everything water

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