High levels of bureaucratic corruption prevail in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania.
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People are swayed by social pressure to help relatives, share contacts or reciprocate favours received from their networks. Many also believe that corruption is normal.
Thousands of Ethiopian refugees have fled the violence, crossing into neighbouring Sudan.
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As ever, civilians are caught in the middle of warring ethnic groups in this strife-torn region of Ethiopia.
Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki (left), Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (right) and Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed.
The proposed cooperation promises to address transnational problems within the three countries but it might alienate the rest of East Africa.
The Conversation Africa is expanding in West Africa.
Taking a loan has never been easier thanks to the proliferation of mobile lending platforms.
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Mobile loan platforms have given Kenyans access to easy loans, but they come at a high price.
Kila with her infant, Kitu.
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Attacks on chimpanzees are happening at an alarming rate, within and outside national parks.
Lake Turkana Wind Power turbines.
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Our research shows how a large scale renewable energy project can be plagued by many of the same troubling impacts on local communities as oil and extractive industries.
Hepatitis is a major public health burden.
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Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have made vaccination and post-infection therapy available. But the number of those infected annually and dying from viral Hepatitis continues to be high.
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Factors behind the hits and misses of the higher education sector in Kenya and East Africa. What needs to be done to address the problems.
People gather to look at the debris from a building that collapsed in Nairobi, Kenya in June 2017.
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The more people come to a city, the more demand for buildings is amplified.This demand creates pressure from which a range of agencies, motivations and causes arise.
Health workers from Bwera hospital prepare to transport the body of a fifty-year-old woman who died of Ebola to the burial site in Bwera, Uganda.
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Ebola is difficult to contain because of human social and behavioural factors. But it can be if 100% of the infected people’s contacts are identified and monitored.
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Poor understanding can be put down to the content in Kenyan schools’ curricula.
Representative stone tools (handaxes) recorded in the study area.
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There’s almost no place on earth that doesn’t hold traces of humanity. But which routes did our ancestors follow first?
Google Images have revealed valuable data on what Africa’s largest eagle preys on.
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Scientists now have a better understanding of what martial eagles eat. This is valuable for the conservation of this endangered species.
Tools like the WHO checklist can lead to better surgical outcomes in countries with limited resources.
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Research found that only a quarter of anaesthetists working in main referral hospitals in East Africa used the WHO safe surgical checklist.
Pregnant women waiting to see a doctor at a hospital in Uganda.
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If women don’t have access to quality emergency surgery, they can develop dibilitating complications such as fistula.
Beautifully preserved flowstone and sediment layers from the Cradle of Humankind.
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South Africa’s fossils can step out of the shadows of being undated and undateable.
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The BBC drama about Rwanda tackles post-genocide events in a way few dramas or documentaries have done before.
A herd of Masai giraffe towering over zebras in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania.
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The number of giraffes in Africa has dropped by 40% over the past 30 years, but the reasons for this remain largely unknown.
Kenya needs more skilled local workers who can be employed in the oil sector.
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A major constraint that prevents Kenyans from benefiting from the oil sector includes the lack of specialised training or technical skills