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The creation of a Research Excellence Barometer for Africa would contribute to retaining talent and expertise and ensure that Africans benefited from their own research efforts.
Mobile phones are enhancing the lives of internally displaced people in Nigeria.
The rate and scale of the destruction of Tigray’s healthcare system is severe.
A consequence of a warming world is prolonged dry spells and periods of drought that can lead to infectious diseases like cholera.
Huduma Namba data processing poses high risks, since very personal data, including biometrics, is collected.
Tracking the pandemic’s waves enables authorities and policy makers to take action to keep new waves at bay.
Structural transformation across the Nigerian economy remains very limited.
This challenges the current assumption that coughing is the primary driver of TB transmission.
Progress against tuberculosis has long been inadequate to reach the target of elimination by 2030. But before the COVID-19 pandemic the world was making steady progress in diagnosing and treating TB.
The EU’s trading partners, including South Africa, will have to adhere to new regulations tied to the blocs ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy.
Africans are stereotyped as having no regard for time and timing. This is a myth.
African livestock keepers need help: without proactive interventions, increasing temperatures will reduce meat and milk production.
For the first time, the drug substance, or active ingredient for a COVID-19 vaccine - in this case mRNA - will be manufactured on the continent.
The provision of better health services and social grants has aided rural women’s progress in South Africa, but there are still tremendous needs to be met.
The WHO estimates that only about 15% to 25% of those in need of assistive technology products in Africa have access to them.
Attirées par la remontée des eaux froides de l’océan indien, les sardines de l’Afrique du Sud restent piégées dans ces mêmes eaux une fois qu’elles redeviennent chaudes.
Cocoa buyers and chocolate manufacturers still use various strategies to deflect when the issue of child slavery is raised
Nigerian museums continue to present colonised versions of history. This harms local communities.
Satellite imagery can help to get data in fragile, crisis-affected situations.
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