The Thusong Multipurpose Center in Khayelitsha which will serve as a COVID-19 site in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Involving senior health science students in the everyday practice helped address the workload in facilities, improved quality of patient care, and increased patient and staff satisfaction.
Parts of Kenya have flooded as a result of Lake Victoria’s rising levels.
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The flooding has affected water resources, agriculture and food security, health and sanitation, fisheries, and energy and infrastructure.
TV reporters prepare for a live broadcast during a strike by airline workers in Nairobi.
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Peace journalism is more than mediating or preventing conflict. It’s also about the dignity and agency of the affected populations.
A man pulls a cart through the early morning smog in Nairobi.
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We found that air pollution levels in Nairobi increased by 182% over the study period, Kampala by 162% and Addis Ababa by 62%.
Children make their way to school in Fort Portal, Uganda.
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The fact that teachers in Uganda’s rural schools weren’t trained in the local language means they can’t teach children in their mother tongue and this leads to poor literacy acquisition.
Ugandan activist and writer Stella Nyanzi outside a Kampala court after a ruling in her favour against President Yoweri Museveni
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When protesters strip naked to amplify their political voice, it is often a last resort within very restrictive regimes.
A military officer distributes maize flour in Kampala, Uganda, where the urban poor have been affected by the lockdown.
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The relationship between the country’s security forces and the civilian population has always been uneasy.
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Africa is facing a profound crisis that could set its development back a generation. It needs a solution to its debt problems that doesn’t cripple countries.
The refugee-led organisation YARID delivering food and other items to refugees in Kampala.
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Refugee-led organisations in camps and cities in Uganda are at the frontline of the response to COVID-19 response.
Fried locusts.
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Eating locusts is an old strategy used to get food after locusts devastated crops, but things have changed.
A Kenyan soldier urges people to take cover during the terror attack on the Dusit Hotel complex in 2018.
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The terror group uses the proceeds of criminal activity to support its political agenda.
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Written from prison, the new book of poems by the writer, academic and activist shows her fire but also her deep love for Uganda.
The Kampala-Entebbe expressway.
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International financing for massive infrastructure projects can create new problems for African cities.
An activist poses for the camera outside Botswana High Court which ruled in favour of decriminalising homosexuality in June 2019.
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Predominant public sentiment remains largely anti-homosexual and overshadows constitutionally guaranteed rights in Africa.
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In some communities, over a quarter of the children were misclassified as iron replete whereas they were iron deficient.
Kenya’s Supreme Court upholds President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election victory following a re-run in 2017.
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By pushing their usually valid complaints onto the streets and the courts, opposition leaders deny governments the popular goodwill and international credibility they need to govern effectively.
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.
Lake Victoria.
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Lake Victoria’s past is key to understanding its future.
Mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
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Surveys are likely to have missed multiple groups and individuals due to differences in survey techniques.