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Rapid population ageing has prompted researchers to study disease trends in older South Africans. The aim is to understand the role that specific health conditions play in ageing among rural people.
South Africa’s parliamentary system would make it difficult to achieve a fusion of parties.
Race is the fault line. Prominent black DA figures label attempts to remove leader Mmusi Maimane as an attempt by whites to force black members into a subordinate position.
Child poverty has important psychological and social consequences. This means solutions need to cover very many different angles.
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During almost all outbreaks, women provide the majority of care to the ill voluntarily in their homes at great risk and cost to themselves.
Dissection also plays an important role in introducing students to death. It provides moral and ethical training for students as well as a humanistic approach to patient care.
Research done over the past 26 years
provides insights into changes across people’s lives, helps evaluate interventions, and provides information for local, provincial and national planning.
During the campaign, partisans of all political stripes were responsible for the violence. But Frelimo supporters were far more aggressive and violent.
An unregulated construction sector is stifling its potential to influence Ghana’s economy consistently.
It’s evident from research that while health influences economic well-being, the inverse is also true, economic well-being influences health.
Because it’s a blend of political influences the transition it is facing has, inevitably, had an existential effect on the Democratic Alliance.
Most Kenyan women were introduced into drug use by male sexual partners in their teenage years.
mHealth supported service-delivery systems can provide increased access to hearing and vision services for preschool children in poor communities.
Uganda’s English language policy is at odds with the situation on the ground in the country’s rural schools.
A rare set of photographs of South Africa’s most famous jazz ensemble, the Blue Notes, has added valuable insights to the music archive
Unused biomass residues from maize, sorghum, rice, millet and groundnut in Uganda show to offer unique opportunities for circular production and soil amendment of biochar.
The Conversation Africa is expanding in West Africa.
Abiy Ahmed was awarded the prize for efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.
The danger of fires in the Cape region this season is partly dependent on how the Fynbos has been managed over the past few decades.
Research has a distinctive role to play because it gives pointers on what is needed to create long-term change.
It is time for Ghana to consider the future of its cocoa farmers rather than multinational chocolate producers.
Zimbabwe’s food insecurity is not just about food production, but access too. It is affected by, among others, the value of assets when sold and social and cultural dimensions that go into exchange.
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Combining and fermenting indigenous African grains can help counter malnutrition on the continent.
Less than 1 in 10 people living with a mental health condition in South Africa receive the care that they need.