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Paying attention to tree seed to enhance forest landscape restoration: new resources for Africa are available.
President Alpha Condé’s pursuit of mining interests during the Ebola crisis may have foreshadowed his demise as he tightened his grip over power and plundered the state’s wealth.
Findings show that in the face of marginalisation and social exclusion, youth in gangs think that they have no options except violence to prove that they are ‘real’ men in their communities.
The successful development of an effective vaccine against the deadliest form of malaria that is most common in sub-Saharan Africa is indeed a major achievement.
Instead of asking, ‘How can teenage pregnancies be prevented?’, the following question should be posed: ‘How can reproductive injustices in relation to young women be reduced?
The view that long-serving directors are so enmeshed with the company that they lack independence is gaining traction.
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s stories suggest that it is important to see others in relation to ourselves, to perceive their right of abode even if they cannot claim national belonging.
WHO’s safeguarding failure in the DRC has re-focused attention on the sexual misconduct that surfaces with disgraceful regularity in humanitarian, development, and peacekeeping operations worldwide.
The WHO and the manufacturers of the vaccine will be rallying countries, particularly those with high malaria burdens, to adopt the vaccine.
Current methods of road carnage prevention in Ghana have proved unsuccessful .
As is the case in other conflict and war situations, it was difficult to collect public data. So we examined tweets to understand what topics were being discussed.
These organisations are ideally placed to contribute their fine-grained local knowledge. They intimately understand the specific needs of the most vulnerable in their communities.
The power in Gurnah’s writing lies in his ability to complicate the Manichean divisions of enemies and friends.
There are calls for measures to reduce the burden of red tape and promote and facilitate biodiversity research in South Africa.
Many countries, including South Africa, use regulations to control smoking in public so that they do not harm non-smokers. Likewise, getting vaccinated is for the common good of society.
Some states are adopting subtle and sophisticated ways of controlling or shaping political agendas and discussion.
The judge responsible for authorising the covert monitoring of communications has found that claims by journalists that they were being spied on were credible.
There’s no convincing evidence that listing on the alternative stock exchange promotes growth and sustainability for small and medium sized firms.
The grievances of those instituting the blockade are justified, to some extent. But the blockade will harm the entire nation instead of only disturbing the ruling elites.
Sexual exploitation and abuse requires an active rather than passive response.
Vaccine donations are unsustainable and often inefficient to scale. They are a temporary solution to a systemic issue.
Director remuneration practices and policies are coming in for much greater scrutiny.
South Africa has a huge gender gap in terms of policies and interventions that would help women entrepreneurs.
L'intérêt manifesté par l'ancien président Laurent Gbagbo pour la création d’un nouveau parti donne la possibilité de ré-imaginer la politique d'opposition en Côte d'Ivoire.