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Massive damage to key infrastructure and croplands means the effects of Kenya’s devastating floods will be felt for a long time.
Walking is a common way of getting around in most African cities
The study provides reason for optimism about the effects of minimum wage policies on poverty.
Caesarean section births are often thought to be safer. In fact they disrupt the natural bond between mother and baby and can interrupt brain development.
Biogas systems that generate cooking gas from plant waste can be relatively low-cost to set up. They come with environmental and health benefits for rural people who have only firewood to cook with.
The Africa Youth Employment Clock is a new data tool which could be used to provide evidence-based policy interventions.
Sudan has been a key exporter of gum arabic for decades. Producers have warned fighting could wipe out stockpiles soon.
Her book Daughters of Africa brought black women writers into the literary canon.
Because waste pickers go through trash and leave behind everything without value, they know better than anyone which plastics should be eliminated.
Doctors are demanding the implementation of a 2017 agreement to improve working conditions.
With a new 5-in-1 vaccine, Nigeria hopes to contain the five most important serotypes causing meningitis in the country.
Malaria has been around longer than humankind. The endgame for this deadly parasitic disease is in sight.
Obesity among children is a growing problem in Africa.
African cities with over 10 million residents are getting hotter fast. Millions face disaster in these urban heat islands unless the cities start greening and adapting to climate change soon.
Forty million children are born in malaria areas across Africa each year. Two new vaccines are important weapons in the fight against the disease.
At 88 the artist Esther Mahlangu is world famous and is the subject of a major exhibition in Cape Town.
For villagers in remote areas in Sierra Leone it takes a lot of time and money to get to a clinic. So the COVID-19 vaccine came to the people.
The University of Cape Town’s new report on the impacts of climate change in South Africa found that heatwaves and water stress will affect jobs, deepen inequality, and increase gender-based violence.
Social media platforms can be a gateway for young people who need to access essential resources and support services.
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
