Agborkim Waterfalls, some 17 kilometres from Ikom, about 315 kilometers from Calabar, capital of Cross Rivers State, Nigeria.
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Freshwater biodiversity receives less conservation attention, especially in Nigeria.
A camp for displaced persons in Burkina Faso, May 2024.
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Burkina Faso tops the list of the world’s most neglected crises in the world for the second time in a row.
A three-year-old girl under a mosquito net in Mukuli, western Kenya. She had received all four doses of RTS,S, the world’s first malaria vaccine.
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Forty million children are born in malaria areas across Africa each year. Two new vaccines are important weapons in the fight against the disease.
Pangolins are the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal.
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Pangolins are among the most trafficked and poached mammals in the world.
Supporters of southern Cameroon independence outside Westminster Abbey, London, on 14 March 2022.
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Cameroon’s rebels don’t have the unity, funding or logistics to achieve their aims.
Grieving for the 140 victims of a January 2024 attack in north-central Nigeria.
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Nigeria is beset with security threats. Confronting them will take regional and international cooperation.
Polluting cooking fuels are still preferred in parts of Africa.
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Dust and traffic pollution add to the health hazard posed by some cooking fuels.
The use of mother tongues as languages of instruction has become popular in many parts of Africa.
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Bilingual education can improve learning outcomes but it’s important to consider local context.
A worker sorting plastic bottles at a recycling plant in Lagos.
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Recycled plastics are not safe if the chemicals used in creating them in the first place are harmful.
Rapid urbanisation and population growth in Africa have pushed people to informal settlements.
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The impact of housing quality extends beyond health to education and subsequent economic outcomes, particularly for children.
Kola nut holds a lot of potential not currently explored in Nigeria.
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Beyond ordinary consumption, new research finds uses for kola nut in areas like agriculture and health.
Cocoa farmers in Ghana struggle with poverty.
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Ghana and other west African cocoa growing countries must harness their combined bargaining strength to address the challenges plaguing cocoa farming.
Chadian soldiers form part of a regional force, 2015.
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Boko Haram may be the unintended beneficiary of the crisis created by the recent coup in Niger.
Cameroonians want an end to the six year old armed conflict.
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The Cameroonian government’s pursuit of military victory is likely to prolong the war.
The African continent is home to some of the world’s most multilingual societies.
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Studies of African multilingual contexts are almost non-existent in high-impact scientific journals.
The results of an ŋgam dù consultation.
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Ngam dù is a form of divination in which questions are asked of large spiders that live in holes in the ground. The results of spider divination can be used as evidence in Cameroon’s courts.
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The proposed law reinforces unscientific conversion practices – or so-called reparative therapies – that don’t work.
The violence in north-east Nigeria has displaced thousands of people.
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The insecurity in the area has serious implications for development and the well-being of people, especially young people.
The Zangalewa Dance Troupe, inspired by the Cameroonian band Zangalewa, performs in a prison in Kenya.
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His band Zangalewa satirised Cameroon’s military from within - and helped create the football World Cup hit Waka Waka.
Canadian and German troops take part in a Canadian flag-raising ceremony as the first Canadian troops arrived at a UN base in Gao, Mali, in June 2018. Was the initiative just an exercise in box-checking for Justin Trudeau’s government?
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Far from Canada being back as a major player on the world stage, its presence has been diminished under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.