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Ensuring the participation of ordinary citizens and producers in the industry is the big challenge facing African states.
The number of smokers in Africa is projected to increase.
Coltan is indispensable to the making of modern electronic devices but its mining causes human and environmental disasters in the DR Congo.
When humans eat fish, mussels and other foods containing antibiotics, the residual antibiotics may cause bacterial pathogens to become resistant.
Women in more prestigious jobs than their husbands were seven times more likely to experience physical and emotional violence, compared to women ranked lower than their husbands.
Obese persons are regularly associated with laziness and inactivity in Ghanaian society.
If small-scale farmers can’t afford to grow certified seeds – or can’t find them – food shortages would follow.
Artificial lights could trick malaria-transmitting mosquito species that feed nocturnally into behaving as if it’s daytime.
Nigeria must step up its preparedness for monkeypox.
Some Niger Delta residents are less concerned about oil-induced hazards and risks, or floods and erosion. They are more worried about a lack of sanitation amenities.
Medicinal plants and the associated indigenous knowledge could offer alternatives for women who lack access to modern contraceptives.
If you cannot communicate a concept clearly, then you don’t understand it well enough yourself.
Ideology informs foreign policy practice. Behaviour that could – for better or worse – influence individual lives.
At this stage of the pandemic complacency is likely to lead to an increase in cases, hospitalisation, morbidity and mortality.
Potato productivity in Kenya is declining, this is partly due to potato cyst nematodes - a microscopic type of roundworm that feeds on potato roots.
Abortions are more often self-induced by women with drugs and dangerous substances in Nigeria due to restrictive abortion laws.
Repeated resurgences of SARS-CoV-2 transmission are expected in the years to come.
The herbicide revolution reduces the availability of edible weeds, which may undermine food and nutrition security.
Kenya’s LGBTI community continues to face the deadly consequences of homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.
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