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While more people are using the internet and social media during the pandemic, they aren’t entirely happy with what they see.
People observing social distancing as they queue for mass testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus in a Nairobi suburb.
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There is need for evidence that the virus is being suppressed.
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Challenges that women and girls in low-income areas face have been worsened by measures taken to slow the spread of COVID-19.
A camel herder in Kenya.
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This is the first time that camel handlers in East Africa have been shown to have been exposed to MERS.
A family sitting under a treated mosquito net.
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The pandemic coincides with the long rainy season in Kenya. Rain increases mosquito breeding sites, vector density and thus transmission of mosquito-borne diseases.
A woman walks past a police armed vehicle in Eastleigh - Nairobi’s “little Mogadishu”
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Nairobi’s refugees have few savings and depend on the day-to-day cash they generate from street vending.
Myiasis is an infestation of organs and tissue caused by the larvae of flies.
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Myiasis, a neglected tropical disease, can cause severe clinical outbreaks in humans and animals with potential economic losses in the livestock industry.
A woman walks past a graffiti by Anthony Kihoro in Kenya sensitising people about the coronavirus.
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COVID-19 differs significantly from HIV and Ebola. But the potential consequences of having a misinformed public are similar.
Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi is arrested during a protest in Nairobi in 2014.
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Non-traditional storytellers are challenging customary journalistic practices by giving ordinary people a chance to control the news narrative.
A public health worker takes details from a man volunteering to be tested for COVID-19 in the bustling Kawangware market in Nairobi.
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As COVID-19 cases continue to increase in Kenya, there is a looming threat for escalated disease and death due to the many people with chronic conditions.
Pupils take exams in a Kenyan school.
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Study presents a model that can be scaled to improve learning outcomes and transition rates for young people living in urban informal settlements.
Grafitti artists from Mathare Roots Youth Organisation pose in front of their latest mural advocating safety practices to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Nairobi/Kenya.
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COVID-19 is having a significant impact on the health, economic and social status of slum dwellers.
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.
The Kenya Defence Forces have been in Somalia since 2011.
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By withdrawing its troops from Somalia, Kenya could be doing more harm than good.
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April 30, 2020
Isabel Hofmeyr , University of the Witwatersrand ; Aretha Phiri , Rhodes University ; Grace Musila , University of the Witwatersrand ; Manosa Nthunya , University of the Witwatersrand ; Nedine Moonsamy , University of Pretoria ; Sam Naidu , Rhodes University ; Sarah Nuttall , University of the Witwatersrand ; Susan Kiguli , Makerere University , and Tom Odhiambo , University of Nairobi
African academics draw up a reading list that speaks to the vibrancy of contemporary as well as older African literature.
Many of Kenya’s university students won’t have access to computers.
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Kenya’s high rate of internet penetration does not reflect the barriers students face in accessing learning materials.
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“Nairobi fly” are obvious due to their red and black colouration; these are warning colours of their toxicity.
The refugee-led organisation YARID delivering food and other items to refugees in Kampala.
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Refugee-led organisations in camps and cities in Uganda are at the frontline of the response to COVID-19 response.
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.
Fried locusts.
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Eating locusts is an old strategy used to get food after locusts devastated crops, but things have changed.