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New technologies can help reduce the cost of producing maps that warn where floods might happen.
Young Nigerians are culturally encouraged to overdrink. How can they be protected?
Women and girls in low-income countries are disproportionately likely to be affected by the plastic waste that’s flooding our planet.
Major international donors, including the US and UK, are pledging to stop funding fossil fuel projects overseas, but they aren’t making the equivalent cuts at home.
African government and international funding partners should focus on building laboratories in different parts of Africa to support plastic pollution research.
Malaria is one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases. So why has it taken so long to get a vaccine?
But the vaccine isn’t perfect. So we’ll still need mosquito nets and insecticides too.
Natural resource abundance in a country should not translate into a curse.
Governments must take urgent steps to revamp rural universities.
De nombreux pays africains ont acquis beaucoup d'xpériences en matière de gestion de épidémies de fièvres hémorragiques virales qu'ils peuvent appliquer à celle du virus à Marburg.
The producers are recasting the show as a documentary. The original version would have done more harm than good for the causes being showcased, two scholars argue.
Making vaccines in South Africa by building on the foundation that’s been laid is possible. But only if substantial and sustained investment in human resources and infrastructure becomes a reality.
Most indigenous signed languages in Africa today are marginalised, dominated and suppressed by foreign signed languages.
Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China has become the world’s largest country-to-country lender. A new study shows that more than half of its loans threaten sensitive lands or Indigenous people.
The NBA Africa is making a play for expansion. Where does Barack Obama fit in?
Yusuf Grillo charted a path in African art and enabled the emergence of more artists.
Using data from the popular navigation app, researchers have pinpointed the areas of Lagos, Nigeria, where emergency obstetric care is most needed.
Towering trees in African tropical mountain forests are a vital, overlooked carbon store threatened by deforestation.
Rebasing matters because it makes updated and better data available so that better policies can be designed.
Top contributors
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Scientific Officer, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Anthropologue et démographe, professeur émérite au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle et conseiller de la direction de l'INED, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
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Visiting Professor of Sustainability Science, Technical University of Denmark
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Director of Research, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, University of Maryland
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Associate Professor, China Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
