Solar panels in Alexandra, Johannesburg.
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The value of green technologies and systems is that they are largely decentralised or semi-decentralised.
Medium-scale African farmers are relatively wealthy and influential.
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Medium-scale farms are an important driver of agricultural and rural transformation in much of Africa.
At about 21 million strong, nurses make up half of the world’s health workforce.
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Well resourced and empowered nurses could help to quickly spread universal health care.
One way to tackle this violent crime is through DNA profiling.
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Self-examination DNA collection techniques can help women bring the perpetrators of sexual violence to justice.
Restrictive laws mean that women resort to unsafe means.
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In Kenya nearly 120,000 women are treated in health facilities each year for complications arising from unsafe abortions
Damning development.
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When the Aral Sea dried up, it was called the “world’s worst environmental disaster”. We’re witnessing its equivalent in Africa.
In Kenya, contraceptive use among teens has been consistently low.
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Teenage girls in Kenya who fall pregnant either drop out of school or risk unsafe abortions.
Over 47% of women in Kenya have experienced physical or sexual violence by their partner.
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A study in Kenya found that the lower men ranked themselves in society, the more violent they were with their intimate partners.
Nigerians have the lowest trust in the country’s media, thanks to widespread misinformation.
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Disinformation in Africa often takes the form of extreme speech inciting violence and spreading racist, misogynous, xenophobic messages.
New toilet blocks in Mathare Valley informal settlement in Nairobi.
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Women in developing countries are burdened by the lack of access to proper toilets in their homes, communities, schools and public spaces.
In this 2012 photo, grandmother Janet Kitheka, 63, collects her adopted “granddaughter” Lucy, 13, at the end of the school day in the yard of the Hot Courses Primary School, in the village of Nyumbani which caters to children who lost their parents to HIV, and grandparents who lost their children to HIV in Kenya.
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Research shows that Aspirin could reduce the number of HIV infections in women at high risk for HIV, such as Kenyan female sex workers.
Young Muslims protest in 2012 after the killing of a cleric accused of supporting Al-Shabaab.
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The jihadi initiative remains a loose political force in Kenya. This is dangerous for a few reasons.
The Nile River during sunset in Luxor, Egypt.
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The threat to use force to defend Egypt’s right to water from the Nile has been a common theme through successive governments.
Cellphones are everywhere in Africa - but that doesn’t mean the digital divide is closing.
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We don’t have the data in developing countries, and in global statistics to know if the digital divide is being closed.
Supporters of Kenya’s draft constitution attend a “Yes” campaign rally ahead of the 2010 referendum.
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Weary Kenyans are entitled to wonder if the latest referendum push will be any different from the past two.
Kenya is ill-prepared for the environmental, health and safety impacts that accompany oil production.
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Kenya must address the needs and priorities of the oil sector in regards to environment, health and safety.
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South Africa and Kenya have some valuable lessons for other African countries on how to finance urban infrastructure development.
About 56% of Kenya’s urban population currently lives in a slum.
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The rental housing market in Nairobi’s informal settlements offers its tenant households a perverse market outcome of higher prices for lower quality products
Rift Valley fever is a disease passed from mosquitoes to animals then to people.
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Outbreaks of zoonotic diseases call for a collaborative approach to surveillance.
Private companies can provide services - like catering - for inmates.
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Turning prisons into a market opportunity could open them up to corruption.