Studying ancient African societies, like Great Zimbabwe, can reveal how communities dealt with disease and pandemics.
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Archaeologists have long studied diseases in past populations. They’ve explored the evolution of pathogens and how they interacted with humans.
Rains regularly displace thousands in Africa.
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Communities prepare better for flood disasters when they have been actively involved in communicating information.
Markets in Africa’s cities are central to the food chain. But many had to close because of COVID-19 measures.
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Safe rural migration programmes are not a substitute for formal social protection. But they could buy governments some time.
A member of the South African National Defence Force hands out pamphlets informing township residents about COVID-19 in Johannesburg.
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Ubuntu provides a language for people to participate in preventive action, even if this involves practices such as lockdowns.
The experiences of British based West African students can be improved.
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More can be done to ease transitions for West African students in the United Kingdom.
One of the first babies born on 1 January 2020 in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Unfortunately, disrespectful and neglectful treatment of women during childbirth, including verbal, physical and emotional abuse is not uncommon.
Women’s agency is still mired within wider structures of patriarchy and chronic poverty.
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Phones sometimes serve as a ‘digital leash’ to check women’s whereabouts - a growing feature of many relationships and conflicts.
Ghana has spent years developing a trusted justice system.
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The novel coronavirus has necessitated judicial reforms that should have been the norm.
A Ghanaian vegetable farmer sits on his land.
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And why development funders should listen to smallholder farmers
Somali women on a coronavirus awareness campaign.
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Some of the false claims about coronavirus may be harmless. But others can be potentially dangerous.
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Instead of seeking to protect our health and stop the coronavirus epidemic by instituting totalitarian surveillance regimes, we should rather focus on empowering citizens.
Ghana’s forests require better care if cocoa farming is to be sustainable.
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The rising demand on the world market for cocoa has put pressure on Ghana’s forests.
An almost deserted highway in Accra
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A lockdown by itself is not a magic wand for fighting coronavirus.
The aviation industry is a key part of Ghana’s economic agenda.
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The coronavirus is stressing the continent’s aviation sector.
Elmina is one of the most important tourist sites in West Africa.
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The historic location provides a window into the potential of city tourism in Ghana.
Progress has been slow in Ghana in expanding access to water.
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Governments must take note of specific geographic contexts and local attributes that drive water insecurity.
Dance troupes mark the anniversary of Ghana’s independence in the grounds of Kwame Krumah’s masuoleum in Accra in 2007.
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Studies of Kwame Nkrumah have been influenced by the political climate both within and outside Ghana.
A nurse in a hospital checks an IV.
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Ghana’s lack of a palliative care policy is posing a significant challenge to effective healthcare for cancer patients.
Football continues to present a great chance for social mobility in Africa.
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Fame changes the bonds that some African footballers have with their home communities.
There has been a slide in the levels of foreign direct investment in Africa.
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African governments need to spend more effort on maximising the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth