Major international donors, including the US and UK, are pledging to stop funding fossil fuel projects overseas, but they aren’t making the equivalent cuts at home.
Volunteers gather at a beach, to clean up plastic litter at a Lagos beach.
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African government and international funding partners should focus on building laboratories in different parts of Africa to support plastic pollution research.
A helping hand in the fight against malaria.
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Governments must take urgent steps to revamp rural universities.
Une photo, prise en août 2015, de gants et de bottes désinfectés dans un centre de traitement d'Ébola à Conakry, en Guinée ; des leçons sont tirées pour gérer le virus de Marburg.
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Michelle J. Groome, National Institute for Communicable Diseases et Janusz Paweska, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
De nombreux pays africains ont acquis beaucoup d'xpériences en matière de gestion de épidémies de fièvres hémorragiques virales qu'ils peuvent appliquer à celle du virus à Marburg.
Usher, shown speaking in 2019 at an event hosted by the nonprofit he started, and two other celebrities shot five episodes of the canceled series.
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The producers are recasting the show as a documentary. The original version would have done more harm than good for the causes being showcased, two scholars argue.
Making vaccines in South Africa by building on the foundation that’s been laid is possible. But only if substantial and sustained investment in human resources and infrastructure becomes a reality.
Deaf students learning sign language at a special school
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Most indigenous signed languages in Africa today are marginalised, dominated and suppressed by foreign signed languages.
Chinese engineers pose after welding the first seamless rails for the China-Laos railway in Vientiane, Laos, June 18, 2020.
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Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China has become the world’s largest country-to-country lender. A new study shows that more than half of its loans threaten sensitive lands or Indigenous people.
Former President Barack Obama has joined the NBA Africa as a strategic partner.
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If done effectively, the reallocation could help African countries deal with COVID-19, climate change and their many other economic and social challenges.
Young Kikuyu women lined up outdoors at a Church of Scotland mission school in Kenya.
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The classical tradition has long excluded anyone who wasn’t white. But a succession of Black female artists have attempted to broaden these ossified boundaries.
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame meets Israel’s then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017.
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Anthropologue et démographe, professeur émérite au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle et conseiller de la direction de l'INED, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)