Lusala a local wild yam in Zambia that supplements diets has seen a considerable rise in demand.
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Lusala, a wild yam that many in Zambia rely on for consumption and trade, is gradually taking longer to find due to deforestation.
When the wheels of partnership turn smoothly, Africa can benefit enormously.
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It’s all too common for local scholars to be sidelined in what are supposed to be genuine research partnerships.
Medium-scale African farmers are relatively wealthy and influential.
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Medium-scale farms are an important driver of agricultural and rural transformation in much of Africa.
The theme for World Aids Day is “know your status”.
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Access to HIV testing is an important factor in reaching UN goals that 90% of people with HIV must know their status by 2020.
Egyptian-born Australian musician, Joseph Tawadros.
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African Australians contribute to all major musical genres - from dance to hip hop and beyond.
A United Nations staff member pays tribute to Kofi Annan during a ceremony at the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Kofi Annan and John McCain’s positive eulogies could be because both men seized moments of human dignity and decency.
Cybersecurity is everyone’s problem, all over the world.
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In reality, cybersecurity attacks are like a disease affecting people globally.
A female farmer in Zambia tends to her crops.
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Civil society organisations in Zambia help women get access to land.
School children at the site of the KAT-7 radio telescope in Carnarvon, South Africa.
Kevin Govender
Astronomy is accessible to anyone with a view of the sky.
Rosewood is popular in China for ‘hongmu’ - antique furniture.
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Zambia’s rosewood forests are being decimated but it’s still not reaping the full benefits of exporting the coveted wood to China.
Burundi’s Pierre Nkurunziza is one of many authoritarian African leaders.
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More leaders in more African countries will abolish term limits unless organisations like the African Union take action.
A woman harvests groundnuts in Malawi. Land ownership does not automatically empower women.
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We found that even when women own land, their husbands are still perceived as household heads.
A white-throated swallow, one of several intra-African migratory birds.
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There are hundreds of variations on the basic ‘flavour’ of bird migration.
Reconstruction of a Permian swamp.
Rose Prevec
Plants, in their fossil forms, can reveal a great deal about past environments and climates.
Herbs, roots and plants can have health benefits. But they can also interact negatively with Western medicines.
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Numerous traditional African medicines are undeniably beneficial in treating disease or maintaining good health.
A Malawi boy sits among drying tobacco leaves in 2014.
Jeffrey Drope
The tobacco industry claims that tobacco- growing is essential to the livelihoods of millions of small-scale rural farmers in Malawi, Zambia and Kenya. Research shows that’s untrue.
An image by MeerKAT shows hydrogen gas in M83, a famous spiral galaxy.
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A precursor to the Square Kilometre Array- the MeerKAT telescope - is being built right now and remarkable progress has been made in the last 12 months.
A Zenzeleni cooperative member carefully aligns some equipment in the village of Mankosi, Eastern Cape.
Bill Tucker
South Africa has some of the highest mobile voice and data costs in the world. A project to deliver affordable services and keep money in communities with high unemployment rates could be the answer.
Carefully tracking the migration habits of birds like the Barn Swallow can help to conserve these species.
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If Europe is going to reap the benefits of conservation measures at home, its experts need an understanding of where “their” birds migrate to when they head off to Africa.
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Faced with a massive food production shortfall, Africa can look towards India’s Green Revolution to jump start its agricultural output.