Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame meets Israel’s then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017.
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Most countries in Africa have chosen to separate the issue of the Palestinians from economic cooperation with Israel.
The spread of malaria can be controlled by community-based management.
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We’ve made advances towards delivering new devices to empower even people with basic medical knowledge to administer malaria tests in the field.
COVID-19 lockdowns have increased the need for ARV delivery in communities.
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There are currently 1.2 million Ugandans enrolled on antiretroviral therapy (ART). They are especially affected by the lockdown.
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Policymakers need to make sense of the data so as to predict and manage what’s happening. To address this need, we developed a visualisation tool to track and predict country-level COVID-19 cases.
Many doctors and healthcare staff feel the need to practice in richer countries that offer a more stable politics, better education and opportunities for their families.
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India, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa lose thousands of trained doctors each year, lured away to work in richer countries – at great cost to their nation’s healthcare systems.
Men did more unpaid care work during COVID-19 lockdowns.
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Finding a way to increase the participation of men and fathers in unpaid care work would have an important influence on a more equal distribution between women and men.
Health workers wearing protective suits lower the body of a COVID-19 victim for burial at a graveyard in Gulu, northern Uganda.
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Uganda needs to activate the community engagement pillar and resource the new strategy that’s in place.
Traders leave their cabbages after the County Governor ordered the closure of the main open air market to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Kisumu, Kenya.
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Lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19 had various effects on food as it went from farms to plates.
Supporters of the National Resistance Movement celebrate.
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These appointments provoked debate in Uganda, reflecting both the constraints and the possibilities of women’s rights reform in an authoritarian country.
Congolese women at the border crossing with Uganda at Bunagana in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Within already economically perilous border areas, informal cross border trade is even more vulnerable during a pandemic.
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Digital media shutdowns in Africa will lead to higher economic costs and greater public outrage.
Appropriately designed taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages would result in proportional reductions in consumption.
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Without reliable, local and timely data, countries will miss the potential of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation as a public health intervention.
The competing interests of economic growth and public health aren’t being managed well.
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Implementing a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in all African countries will require sufficient political will and support from civil society.
A patrol car of the Ugandan police is seen stationed outside the headquarters of the Uganda oppposition party National Unity Platform (NUP) on January 20, 2021.
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Arbitrary detention and torture are both prohibited under local and international laws.
An initiate parades through his village in Mbale, Uganda.
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Sacred sites where rituals are performed by the community should be protected as living archives that house local heritage.
Two men work their maize crop in Uganda’s Kapchorwa district.
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The government intervening to ensure food safety will increase awareness among producers and consumers.
Protesters march towards a line of Kenyan riot police during post-election violence in Nairobi in 2007.
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It is often assumed that patrimonial beliefs fuel electoral malpractice whereas civic ones challenge it, but this is an oversimplification.
Muslim women and children in Lamu in north east Kenya. Al-Shabaab’s recruitment of female members is most evident in coastal and north eastern counties.
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Women’s motivations for joining terrorist networks belie Kenyan media accounts of naive girls manipulated through romantic notions of Jihadi brides or wives.
The doum palm is an indigenous tree in Kenya which produces edible fruit.
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Africa’s key to future food-nutrition security may depend on the untapped potential of indigenous fruit trees.
Activists highlight some of the United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals in Lima, Peru (February 20, 2017).
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A new report from the GovLab and the French Development Agency (AFD) examines how development practitioners are experimenting with emerging forms of technology to advance development goals.