Traders in Wuse, Abuja. Nigeria’s inflation is driven by soaring food costs and the fall of the country’s currency.
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Factors pushing inflation rates downwards in other parts of the world are achieving the exact opposite result in Nigeria.
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Karine Scheuermaier , University of the Witwatersrand ; Alison Bentley , University of the Witwatersrand ; Dale Rae , University of Cape Town ; Francesco Xavier Gomez-Olive Casas , University of the Witwatersrand ; Gosia Lipinska , University of Cape Town ; Jonathan Davy , Rhodes University ; Joshua Davimes , University of the Witwatersrand ; Nomathemba Chandiwana , University of the Witwatersrand , and Oluwatosin Olorunmoteni , Obafemi Awolowo University
Sleep is an essential part of life. What happens when we don’t get enough sleep and how do we ensure that we do?
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Office workers are sedentary for hours at a time. Our research looked at what they should do to stay healthy.
Financial abuse persists when access to economic opportunities is controlled or limited by an intimate partner.
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When money is entangled with relationships, it can often become a tricky situation.
Senegalese police rank among the worst for brutality against protesters.
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Negative perceptions of police professionalism and corruption go hand in hand with low public trust in the police, poor marks on government performance, and citizens’ sense of insecurity.
There are a number of water-borne diseases that can cause very serious illness and death. Getty Images.
Water can make you ill for two reasons: it can contain toxic chemicals or pathogenic organisms.
Several campaigns have been waged against statues linked to Africa’s colonial past.
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The fate of several colonial statues in Africa continues to be a subject of controversy.
Styrofoam in the trash.
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Plastic tax would work better than a ban in Lagos, Nigeria.
The graves of victims who died from cholera in Chingwele Cemetery in Lusaka. Zambia is one of the countries at the epicentre of a devastating outbreak in southern Africa. Luke Dray/Getty Images.
The world’s stockpile of cholera vaccines has run dry, bad news for cholera-ravaged southern Africa. Why is this and what is being done to address vaccine shortages in Africa?
A fishing boat launching into South African waters at dawn.
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South Africa’s ocean information management system is helping to mitigate security and environmental risks.
Nigeria is a hub for ivory trafficking despite its small elephant population.
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Forest elephants are endangered in Nigeria. Habitat protection, community awareness campaigns, research and stronger regulations could save them from going extinct.
The research assessed newspaper coverage of fintech in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa.
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Coverage is celebratory and offers limited cautionary and critical reporting to the public and to policymakers.
Road collapse in northern Kenya due to flash floods on 22 November 2023.
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Projections show that there’ll be Indian Ocean dipoles in the future – and that means more rainy days, and more extreme rainfall.
Children will often sing and dance for visiting tourists.
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A school tour often sits within the itinerary of a tour of southern Africa, or alongside wildlife tourism ventures.
Les outils technologiques améliorent la surveillance des activités des navires dans le golfe de Guinée.
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Les technologies sont essentielles pour contrer les menaces à la sécurité en mer dans plusieurs pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre
Prof Eddie Webster.
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Eddie Webster inspired generations of scholars with his vision and practice of critically engaged scholarship, in South Africa and worldwide.
Les faux articles universitaires peuvent causer des dommages importants.
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Les fabricants d'articles de recherche exploitent la détresse des chercheurs pour soutenir leur modèle économique.
The Obim Rock internally displaced persons’ camp in northern Uganda.
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Uganda, as the concerned state party, is expected to go out and find Dominic Ongwen’s victims.
Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud with Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in March 2024.
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All states have limited security capabilities and they generally prioritise them close to home. where it matters.
An employee at an early childhood development centre prepares her charges for a nap.
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There should be a standard policy across all South African universities related to recognition of prior learning as a criterion for entrance.
Fake academic articles can cause significant harm.
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Paper mills rely on the desperation of researchers to fuel their business model.
Tech tools improve the monitoring of ship activities in the Gulf of Guinea.
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Tech tools are playing a vital role in addressing security threats at sea in various west and central African countries.
Le mausolée du héros de l'indépendance, Patrice Lumumba, se trouve à la Tour de l'Echangeur Limete, construite par Mobutu Sese Seko.
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L'art nationaliste de Mobutu Sese Seko et le style Art Nouveau du roi Léopold II perdurent de manière captivante à Kinshasa.
Demonstrators in Kenya in 2023 show that US pro-family lobbies are increasingly home grown.
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Ultra-conservative pro-family groups finance campaigns to influence the policies of governments and schools.
African leaders meeting at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa on 18 February 2024.
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African leaders have a worrying track record of prioritising narrow domestic gains over transferring supranational, binding powers to the AU.