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Until vaccines that are capable of protecting all populations against TB are developed, treatment is the best option to preventing infection.
Given the ever increasing importance of coordinated management Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt should manage all dams through the Nile Basin Commission.
Dam politics have resurfaced in Africa as the continent’s urban population grows.
Solar-powered cold chain technologies can be game-changers in the fight against COVID-19 in resource-limited settings in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
The low levels of familiarity with key historical events indicate that there are serious shortcomings in the development of national collective memory in South Africa.
Nigeria’s academic community is mourning the death of engineering professor and university administrator, Professor Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe.
The independent theatre will be a monument to how a failed department of arts and culture could not match state support with public philanthropy.
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Understanding when there will be extreme heat and extreme cold can help people prepare.
Issoufou has failed to strengthen fundamental democratic rights. If anything, the Issoufou era is a textbook case of democratic backsliding.
Several countries on the continent had introduced COVID-19 vaccination by early March 2021.
The legitimacy of SWAPO, the former liberation movement that has governed since 1990, has been eroded amid growing corruption and a deepening economic crisis.
Due to the poor security response of the Nigerian state, insurgency will continue to pose a serious threat to its northeast border communities.
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Nigeria must do more to tackle banditry, terrorism and kidnappings which have led to the closure of some schools in the northern part of the country.
Sacred sites where rituals are performed by the community should be protected as living archives that house local heritage.
Women MPs point to a toxic environment in which a politics of insults, ridicule and rumour work against having more women in political offices.
Sustainable financial inclusion in Nigeria requires interventions that strengthen financial capability, participation and well-being of small-scale farmers.
An enabling approach was more likely to create attitudes among suppliers that were conducive to learning.
The attitudes that people with disabilities may encounter when trying to access sexual and reproductive healthcare are hugely deterring.
Though initial reactions towards abortion were negative, there were displays of understanding and empathy when discussing why women have abortions.
In the past five years, the rise of banditry and terror attacks have had devastating effects on children in northern Nigeria.
Rural migrant farmers are bearing the brunt of climate change in Ghana
Ghana remains heavily dependent on primary commodity exports for foreign exchange earnings.
South Africa’s long-awaited TB prevalence survey results were recently released. They reveal that the country has a much higher burden of TB than previously thought.
In Nigeria, the unmarried, the unemployed, the less educated and those from the northern parts of the country were most susceptible to psychological challenges associated with COVID-19 lockdown.