Informal trading is one way grant recipients use to supplement their income.
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As much as 31% of grant beneficiaries engage in informal work to ‘grow’ their income.
Cash is still king in Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s Central Bank didn’t have an adoption strategy for its digital currency. It was a missed opportunity.
Detail from the cover of an edition of Amma Darko’s novel Faceless.
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A psychologist and a literary scholar analyse Faceless, a powerful novel about homeless children - and their mothers.
Uranium processing plant in Utah, US.
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Libya’s lost but found yellowcake poses no significant security risk but highlights the need for African countries to get their acts together in the area of nuclear safety and security governance.
Keep as little food as possible in your fridge and freezer.
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The era of stocking pantries and keeping our fridges and freezers full is over.
Many children help out on family farms in Africa.
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Children working on family farms is often mistaken for harmful child labour.
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COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic have increased our attention on how individuals and systems cope with stress-inducing shocks.
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The proposed law reinforces unscientific conversion practices – or so-called reparative therapies – that don’t work.
Women in parts of the world are victims of slavery.
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The voices and actions of women who were enslaved reveal how oppression works and what made a difference to those exposed to it
A holocaust survivor who also witnessed apartheid, Ruth Weiss will receive national honours.
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Weiss witnessed atrocities in Germany and South Africa and railed against them, becoming a towering figure as a writer and poet.
There’s no expert consensus on whether screen time is good, bad or somewhere in between.
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Parents should keep an eye on how screen-based activities influence their child’s development and behaviour.
Afrigen, a biotechnology company based in Cape Town, South Africa was recently visited by WHO DG Dr Tedros.
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Africa has come a long way, in the post-COVID era, in boosting the morale around local production investments among local and foreign companies. But more is needed.
Lagos residents use art to draw attention to the gaps in the prevention and treatment of malaria. According to UNICEF, over 1,000 children under the age of 5 catch malaria every day.
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Nigeria must do more to reduce its high malaria burden.
A factory producing insecticidal bed nets in Arusha, Tanzania.
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There have been disruptions. But national malaria control programmes have shown impressive resilience.
A substantive amount of irrigation in Kenya is being implemented quietly by self-motivated farmers.
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Kenya’s irrigation development is more advanced than official records show because they exclude what some farmers are doing.
In healthcare facilities prevention of the sepsis include practising appropriate infection prevention and control measures.
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Many infections, including bacterial, fungal and viral infections can lead to sepsis and septic shock.
NASA’s Artemis I Space Launch System rocket, with the Orion capsule attached, launches at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on November 16, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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As signatories, Nigeria and Rwanda are demonstrating their commitment to safe, sustainable use of outer space. This should have multiple benefits.
View of an endangered indigenous tree felled by illegal loggers in the Nakuru forest area of Kenya.
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Illegal logging entrenches systemic corruption, undermines accountability in governance, and finances insecurity.
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Rahima Moosa Hospital caters for a very large number of women and children. The large patient numbers and high burden of care have a negative impact on the hospital.
A farmer watering his crops in Namong, Tone district, Togo.
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The relationship between small-scale irrigation and food security, diet quality, and nutrition is growing.