New initiative with old handsets halves rates of the disease in southern Tanzania – and is being applied to other conditions, too.
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It took ages for one of African jazz’s hidden masterpieces to be reissued. Still today, four decades later, 1976’s ‘African Songbird’ tells volumes about the politics of the time.
A classical political science debate focuses on whether democracy is dependent on development. The director of the Electoral Integrity Project revisits the issue using new data from African elections.
African elections and referendums are still a heady mixture of the graceful and the shameless.
In the words of US President Obama: Africa doesn’t need strongmen, it needs strong institutions. In this light, the South African president’s acceptance of a court ruling against him is a good thing.
The 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts was the first state-sponsored showcase of the work of black artists, musicians and poets.
The gun attack at a hotel marks another bloody chapter in West Africa’s fight against Islamist militancy.
African academics should be leading the pack when it comes to producing research and information about the continent. So what’s holding them back?
Uganda’s president has ruled for three decades – and the opposition is getting stagnant too.
Barclays latest results show a slump. The underlying fundamentals of African banking, meanwhile, are sound.
There’s enough water under the ground to form a lake 100m deep over the earth.
Even with the end of the war in central Africa, continuing instability in the region has triggered an epidemic of rape.
Rapid genetic disease screening will be the key to saving East Africa’s crops - just as it was during West Africa’s ebola crisis.
Western commentators tend to see ISIS and al-Qaida attacks as fueled by ideology. But in Africa, such attacks are more often turf wars in the illicit drug trade.
Female genital mutilation have long been carried out by traditional circumcisers in Indonesia. In recent years, the ritual has been increasingly institutionalised into medical practice.
The African terror group has been weakened, but it’s now wreaking a new kind of havoc.
Africa has fewer resources than others when it comes to climate change adaptation. For this reason environmental agreements must be monitored by the likes of the AU.
The need for a solution to e-waste disposal is more urgent than ever.
One of the world’s poorest and most unstable countries is in the midst of a remarkably hopeful election campaign.
As concerns rise about the risk of genocide in Burundi, the country could still avoid the worst thanks to its social structure. But time is limited.
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Director of Research, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, University of Maryland
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