Front row: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (C), Chilean Environment Minister and COP25 President Carolina Schmidt (3-L), UN General-Secretary Antonio Guterres (2-R), Argentine President Mauricio Macri (L), Spanish Minister for Ecological Transition Teresa Ribera (2-L) and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Patricia Espinosa (R) pose with other world leaders for a photo during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid, Spain.
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COP25 has come and gone, another missed opportunity to use women’s knowledge to mitigate climate change.
Many Kenyan students have had limited access to computers.
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Integrating technology into schools involves understanding the dynamic relationship between technology, how it’s used in the classroom and the content of the curriculum.
US service members practising water rescue techniques during a routine training exercise off the coast of Djibouti in 2007.
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Kenya and Djibouti are building a more secure and sustainable domestic maritime sector.
Digital traders will not escape taxation.
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Digital transactions generate massive amounts of revenue and the Kenyan government wants to ensure that online traders pay their fair share of taxes.
Coding can enhance children’s creativity and their understanding of mathematics.
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Coding is beneficial to children, irrespective of their career path later on in life.
Fledgling mangroves in Philippines.
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Promising to plant 100m trees a year is one thing; making them grow can be quite another.
HIV-infected and exposed children are vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Effective health care interventions are very important for sub-Saharan Africa because the region has a high burden of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Cyber insecurity is a threat to Africa’s digital economy.
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Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda are at the forefront of the war against cyber criminals.
Best-selling Nigerian novelist and literary superstar Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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African literary prizes are slowly becoming more relevant and richer, thanks to writers organising on the continent.
Close-up of Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus producer of aflatoxins in corn.
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Most of the maize consumed in Kenya is never even tested for aflatoxin.
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Most women feel they are unable to ask health professionals questions. And only half were consistently asked if they had questions.
As smartphone uptake and connectivity grows in Africa, so does the often unhealthy trend of young people betting on sports using their phones.
Vulturine guineafowl groups travel together to the river in the dry season.
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Vulturine guineafowl were found to live in large, sexually mixed groups. These seem to have social preferences for certain other groups.
Online education can help meet the increasing demand for self-paced professional development opportunities for academics.
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In a resource constrained environment, doctoral supervisors can benefit from professional development courses presented fully online
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Women have to push through barriers to access higher education.
Millions of people in the Horn of Africa lack safe, reliable and affordable water throughout the year.
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Drought-driven humanitarian emergencies can be prevented if groundwater is reliably made available at strategic locations.
President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed of Somalia (left) and Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta.Their countries are in a row over territory.
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As Kenya and Somalia scramble for offshore oil and gas, foreign investors wait eagerly on the sidelines
Dagahaley – one of three camps that make up Kenya’s sprawling Dadaab refugee camp.
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Many African countries host large numbers of asylum seekers. But should they be held in camps, or be allowed to integrate into cities?
Primary school can be demanding and hard to follow for children without previous experience of learning in a classroom setting.
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Research shows that children who had preschool education were less likely to drop out of school and have higher levels of literacy when they reach adolescence.
The “marketisation” of universities means students are viewed as consumers.
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The commercialisation of universities in Kenya poses a serious threat to academic freedom.