Every year, seven in ten maternal deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. A study examining sub-Saharan Africa’s largest metropolis find that inequalities in access play a key role.
Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka.
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It’s still fashionable today to promote tech startups and tech hubs based on models from the global north. But new, alternative and more sustainable models might be emerging.
The opening ceremony of an African Union session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Hiral Anil Shah, Imperial College London; Kallista Chan, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine e Kris Murray, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
New research quantifies the link between agricultural practices and malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the world’s most sunlit regions. A prototype generator uses that sunlight in place of diesel to support unreliable electricity grids.
A helping hand in the fight against malaria.
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Hybrid energy systems that combine renewable and non-renewable fuel systems could be the key to sub-Saharan Africa’s energy transition.
Renzo Martens attends the opening of the “White Cube” gallery on April 22, 2017 in the town of Lusanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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The documentary by Dutch artist Renzo Martins is generating important debates today in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as in Europe. Analysis of the stakes of a film that will be a milestone.
A bus and tro-tro station in Accra, Ghana.
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town