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A counter protester (R) stands on her car and shows her middle finger to people gathered for a pro-Trump rally in Beverly Hills, California on October 3, 2020. (Apu Gomes / AFP)

AFRICAN AMERICANS

Why would anyone vote for Trump?

COMMENT: For this gay, white soldier there simply isn’t a good enough challenger to knock him off his perch

Craig D

Outreach: Esther (centre), a staff member of the nongovernmental organisation Lady Mermaid’s Bureau, which advocates for the human rights of female and bisexual sex workers, distributes items to those who have been hard hit by the lockdown in Uganda. (Sumy Sadurni/AFP)

Sex workers abandoned as Covid-19 crackdowns undo Africa’s HIV efforts

Controlling Covid-19 may worsen Africa’s HIV epidemic by stopping state and civil society health services built up over 35 years

Lydia Namubiru, The Continent
Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu
Kerry Cullinan

Girls read an educational book at an adolescent youth center in Uganda. The girls are offered critical life skills training to help them manage socail issues. Low contraceptive usage has fuelled fertility with 59% of girls pregnant by the age of 20. (Neil Thomas/Corbis via Getty Images)

ASSOCIATION FOR LIFE AFRICA

Inside Uganda’s controversial ‘pregnancy crisis centres’, where contraception is discouraged

Undercover investigation shows that controversial US-linked centres are defying government policy and providing inaccurate medical information

Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu
Lydia Namubiru, The Continent