L'abus financier perdure lorsque l'accès aux opportunités économiques est contrôlé ou limité par un partenaire intime.
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Lorsque l'argent est mêlé aux relations, les choses peuvent vite devenir compliquées.
Kenyan police arrest journalists protesting against a controversial media bill in December 2008.
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Important factors, such as conflict, are central to understanding a country’s degree of press freedom, development and democratisation.
A field of dying maize plants in southern Malawi during 2016’s severe drought caused by El Nino.
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Approximately 22% of Malawians are food insecure, partly because of the poor maize harvest in 2023.
Protesters barricade a street in reaction to postponement of the presidential election in Dakar, Senegal on 9 February.
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Attempts to postpone Senegal’s election indefinitely reflect deeper governance problems within Macky Sall’s administration, and the shortcomings of his chosen heir, Amadou Ba.
Traditional South African staple, pap or maize meal. An only meal in time of poverty.
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South Africa’s national survey of food and nutrition security identifies the areas most in need.
A Bothrops asper is prepared for its venom to be milked to use in making antivenom.
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By reporting this new way that future antivenoms can fail, the research has highlighted a problem with current antivenom testing recommendations.
Workers haul part of a fibre optic cable onto the shore at the Kenyan port town of Mombasa.
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Fibre optic cables now literally encircle Africa, though some parts of the continent are far better connected than others.
Les tombes des victimes du choléra au cimetière de Chingwele à Lusaka, témoignant de la gravité de l'épidémie en Zambie, l'un des pays les plus touchés en Afrique australe.
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Le stock mondial de vaccins contre le choléra est épuisé, ce qui est préoccupant pour l'Afrique australe. Quelles sont les raisons et les mesures prises pour remédier aux pénuries en Afrique ?
An anti-colonial demonstration against the CFA franc in Dakar, September 2017.
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Several conditions must be met to ensure the successful launch and operation of a multilateral currency.
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.
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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.