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Amitav Ghosh has used his storytelling prowess to outline the historical and political roots of climate change within systems of power and oppression.
Patients with lower socioeconomic status often have more negative healthcare experiences.
New generation vaccines effective against mpox have a better safety profile. The biggest obstacle for Africa now is availability and cost.
To harness its abundant sunlight and wind, South Africa needs renewable energy storage systems to store this clean power. The government must encourage companies to set up giant battery systems.
Kenyans and Malawians are paying high prices for maize: regional markets aren’t working well.
African health workers have over 50 years of experience battling various outbreaks of yellow fever, Ebola, mpox and more recently COVID-19. This experience should be harnessed now.
Mambo’s Chicken regularly uses chicken breasts and thighs to objectify women. What does that say about men?
The behaviour of modern humankind has played a large part in the advent of new communicable diseases.
Scientists find miombo woodlands are likely to be storing up to twice the amount of carbon previously thought.
Despite being crucial to Sierra Leone’s agricultural sector, women lack access to land. The bora custom is making things worse.
In a sense, a malaria-transmitting mosquito is a sick mosquito. This is where bacteria can help.
Mosquitoes can be genetically modified to help reduce the number of malaria-carrying mosquitoes, and therefore malaria transmission.
Some alcoholic drinks in Nigeria encourage rape and other forms of sexual violence against women. The government needs to do more to stop this.
Hundreds of small-scale farmers in South Africa’s North West province who switched to eco-friendly, climate-smart farming have seen their maize harvest shoot up and their soil improve.
Nigeria must enforce its environmental laws to protect people living in the Niger Delta and their environment.
The global health system needs to wake up to the reality that an outbreak in one part of the world is a concern for everyone.
There needs to be a shift in sustainable supply chain management to go beyond minimising harm to proactive regeneration.
Despite its stark reality, there is a potential path forward for Sudan if peace can be found.
The mpox outbreak in Africa is cause for concern – here’s why.
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