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Interview: have oil companies learnt anything from the Niger Delta crisis?

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imageAfrica's rural population benefits very little from the exploitation of oil and gas but often rural people bear the brunt of environmental damage resulting from oil spills.Reuters/Tife Owolabi

Over the past decade, oil and gas exploration operations have multiplied across sub-Saharan Africa, often in remote areas far from political and commercial...

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Uganda's private schools must stop snubbing language learning policy

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imageUgandan children are meant to learn in local mother tongues for their first three years of primary school.EPA/Stephen Morrison

Private schools are becoming ubiquitous across Africa. Research has shown that their growth, although it has positive effects, is also problematic because many private schools are being set up without proper policy...

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