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Mismanagement of funds appears to be the biggest challenge confronting the Niger Delta peacebuilding programme.
Rates of suicidal behaviour are higher among South African students than among the general population or students in other countries. Understanding why will help shape prevention efforts.
Images of white Namibian farmers and their workers and a collection of portraits by travelling black photographers form part of the early archive.
The bigger parties which contest elections at all three levels would benefit the most – but voters might split their votes.
There are over 1,000 lineages of SARS-CoV-2 circulating around the world. Nigerian scientists have found seven in the country and this is important.
Hundreds of handwritten letters found in an archive have revealed the real import of the writer’s enduring influence.
Mauritius’ oil spill highlights the plight of impoverished communities that live along the coastline.
Before 200,000 years ago, close to the origin of our species, people preferred the use of broad-leaved grasses to build their beds and resting areas using ash layers underneath.
Pooled testing, or group testing, has been used to diagnose relatively rare conditions, such as infection in blood donors. It could be used for universal early infant diagnosis and viral load testing.
That none of his collections were published in apartheid South Africa testifies to the police state’s censorship.
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The vaccines being tested in South Africa have been included on the World Health Organization’s list of 26 most viable candidate vaccines to enter human clinical trials.
Low productivity is one of the biggest challenges facing Uganda’s maize industry. But smallholder farmers still won’t adopt improved seed.
Collective action by the industry and government is key to unlocking opportunities for small and medium-sized citrus growers.
Kabuga’s arrest marks the beginning of a long legal process in which the prosecution faces numerous challenges.
In a political environment as polarised as Rwanda’s, there is no room for moderates and no space for critical voices.
Between 1992 and 1994, the former regime is said to have imported 581 tonnes of machetes into Rwanda. This figure appears to establish that the genocide was planned. But is this number accurate?
Communities who are the custodians of the knowledge associated with African traditional medicinal plants must derive a fair economic return from these natural resources.
Municipalities are now forced to identify new cemetery planning methods and models that are environmentally sensitive and consistent with diverse cultural practices, and facilitate social cohesion.
Agricultural investments could play a role in reducing poverty and improving food security.
Beyond the struggle for land and water, new triggers of conflict between farmers and herders have emerged in northern Nigeria.
The gift of his images lies in their depiction of the social worlds that apartheid sought to destroy, but that live on through the photographs.
Mason tirelessly sought to convince officials of the need to recognise and celebrate the African past, and the role that African people played in the making of modern South African society.
Less than 1% of the world’s research is produced in Africa.
Despite high prices, poor quality and inconvenience, Kenya’s urban poor continued to buy water from private vendors because it’s still their best option.