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121. Uganda bans deployment of workers to Saudi Arabia  
Hundreds of women enticed by prospects of well-paid domestic worker jobs in Saudi Arabia have returned home to Uganda with horrifying tales of being repeatedly raped, assaulted and overworked.  
122. The World Has a Problem: Too Many Young People  
At no point in recorded history has our world been so demographically lopsided, with old people concentrated in rich countries and the young in not-so-rich countries.  
123. Beware of ‘second scramble for Africa’ — Mkapa  
Former Tanzanian president Benjamin William Mkapa has warned African leaders to be worry of the “second scramble for Africa” being orchestrated by erstwhile colonisers who are resorting to soft power…  
124. Will right of access to information be promulgated in 2016?  
There are things worthy of not forgetting in life. One of such very memorable landmarks during the Fourth Phase government of Dr Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete is his 10-year promise to legislate for the…  
125. Beware of ‘second scramble for Africa’ — Mkapa  
Former Tanzanian president Benjamin William Mkapa has warned African leaders to be worry of the “second scramble for Africa” being orchestrated by erstwhile colonisers who are resorting to soft power…  
126. 10 Predictions on Africa in 2016  
Economic pain will likely continue, the China-Africa romance enters a new, more clear-eyed phase, and terror groups on the back pedal.  
127. The time for treating Burundi with kids’ gloves is over, AU must now swing into action  
Size does not matter. Burundi, a small country in East Africa teetering on the brink of chaos, will, if ignored as it has so far been, almost inevitably create a major regional crisis with a heavy…  
128. The Ethics of Refugee Repatriation  
Around the world, refugees are often denied rights under the 1951 Convention for the Protection of Refugees. They cannot access work visas or social services, and some are forced into detention or…  
129. How Burundi’s activist journalists fill a news void using Facebook and Whatsapp  
Months after a coup attempt and street protests failed to prevent president Pierre Nkurunziza’s violent consolidation of power, news-starved Burundians rely on social media as a lifeline for news and…  
130. A Social Science in Africa Fit for Purpose  
Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, argues that African scholarship on Africa is operating at only a…  
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