A young African farmer.
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Africa is far from having an ageing farming population. What is missing is a critical mass of skilled, young farmers with access to finance who could drive productivity in farming.
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The gap between the continent’s most democratic and authoritarian regions is likely to continue to grow.
French soldiers patrol in armoured personnel carriers during the Barkhane operation in northern Burkina Faso in 2019.
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More than 20 years after the shift from unilateralism to multilateralism, it is reasonable to wonder how multilateral France’s ‘new interventionism’ really is.
Methane gas extraction on Lake Kivu.
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Such a large accumulation of methane in a lake is unique, and has never been reached in any other lakes.
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Pooled testing is most efficient when applied in settings of low virus prevalence.
Jean-Pierre Bemba during his trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, The Netherlands.
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The court’s decision has wider implications for international criminal law.
President Pierre Nkurunziza arrives to inaugurate Burundi’s Chinese-built state house on September 27, 2019.
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History will judge Nkurunziza as a man who brought unnecessary pain to a nation that had long suffered from political misrule.
Getting more women involved in science is good for everyone.
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A number of programmes now exist that are helping to close the gender gap in African science, technology, engineering and maths.
A red marks the face of Felicien Kabuga, one of the last key suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, on a wanted poster at the Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit office in Kigali, Rwanda.
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Though genocide survivors would ideally want Kabuga to be prosecuted in Rwanda, it won’t be possible, for legal or political reasons.
Fresh coffee being milled in Rwanda.
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Coronavirus-related restrictions are likely to slow but not stop the coffee business in Rwanda, which produces specialty beans sold worldwide.
Tubeho Neza community distributions of household water filters and cookstoves in western Rwanda in 2014.
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The Tubeho Neza programme has showed that it is possible to provide interventions against major diseases to vulnerable households.
The links between people, animals and the environment call for a new approach to health.
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The interdependency between humans, animals and the environment is becoming more pronounced. This calls for an interdisciplinary approach to health problems.
Viral sequences related to known human coronavirus outbreaks have been identified in horsehoe bats.
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Understanding the many factors that may play a role in spillover of pathogens from bats to humans requires systematic surveillance of bat populations.
BBC Africa Editor, Fergal Keane, in a still from the 2001 film about the Rwanda genocide, Hope in Hell.
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Keane is stepping back from his role as the BBC’s Africa editor due to a long struggle with PTSD after years reporting from conflict zones.
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Rwanda has developed a strong, decentralised health system and addressed many of the major financial and geographic barriers people faced.
Cyber insecurity is a threat to Africa’s digital economy.
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Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda are at the forefront of the war against cyber criminals.
Millions of people in the Horn of Africa lack safe, reliable and affordable water throughout the year.
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Drought-driven humanitarian emergencies can be prevented if groundwater is reliably made available at strategic locations.
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Rwanda’s government has taken concerted, deliberate steps over the past 25 years to build a strong health system.
Children play on a see-saw at Nyumbani AIDS orphanage on the outskirts of the Kenya capital Nairobi.
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Kenya announced plans in 2017 for a long-term action plan to end the institutionalisation of children.
Family photos of the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, displayed at a 25th anniversary memorial in April 2019.
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Learning from what actually worked during the United Nations’ infamously ineffective 1994 peacekeeping mission in Rwanda may save lives in the future.