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According to secondary data from Nigeria's most recent population census (2006) the crude marital dissolution rate was 11 per 1000 population. Among those ever married, the rate was 29.5 per 1000. ...

Nigeria’s GDP per capita was US$835.49 in 2025. ...

In 2023, 448,641 first-year students enrolled in Ghana’s Free Senior High School Programme, bringing the total number of beneficiaries for the 2022/23 academic year to 1.3 million. ...

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the monetary value of all goods and services that a country produces in a given time period. Livestock is a sub-sector of agriculture that includes animals used to produce food or other products, like cattle, goats, sheep, camels, poultry and other smaller species, ac...

The Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town was founded in 1825, making it almost 200 years old. Other old museums in Africa include the Egyptian Museum, first built in 1835, the Bardo National Museum in Tunisia (1888), South Africa’s Albany Museum (1855) and the Uganda National Museum (1908). ...

Domestic violence refers to abusive behaviour by someone the victim lives with or is in a close relationship with. In 2021 South Africa expanded the definition beyond physical, sexual and emotional abuse to include other forms, like coercion and control, and economic, spiritual and elder abuse.&nbsp...

We used data from The World Bank and the Kenyan National Bureau of Statistics, and only included police officers ‘on the ground’ (excluding administrative staff).Kenya’s police to population ratio in 2021 was 1:688 (one officer for every 688 people). In 2009, the ratio was 1:978. The num...

Neither Johannesburg Water nor the National Institute for Communicable Diseases has released any information about a recent cholera outbreak. In April 2024, Johannesburg Water addressed an old video from 26 May 2023—a local news channel clip circulating on social media that claimed cholera contami...