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EAST AFRICA: LGBT rights may face renewed attack
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES276658
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Taxation effects on inequality in Africa.
This 'infodemic' is particularly acute where leaders have actively denied the significance of COVID-19 (Burundi, Madagascar, Tanzania), and where government is widely distrusted…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB253447
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It follows Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's decision on April 23 to abandon such a deal with Nairobi, instead opting for a rival project with Tanzania. Due to be completed in…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB210932
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However, it also faces a crisis moment as the COVID-19 pandemic tests regional bonds, exposes the bloc’s weaknesses and threatens to spill over into a wider regional political…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB253937
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Coffee and tea farmers across the region face challenges, with knock-on impacts for the wider economies. The national development plans of most East African governments emphasise…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB224875
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However, Kenya's wider economic prospects are buoyant, underlined by the IMF's robust 6.0% GDP growth forecast for 2016 and 6.1% in 2017.