Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Arti Singh, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Ghana is the latest country in Africa to mandate the use of pictures on cigarette packages to convey health warnings.
A health worker looks on at an Ebola transit centre in Beni in North Kivu province, DRC.
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Close to 4 million teenage girls are subjected to breast ironing worldwide. This harmful cultural practice, which is most prevalent in West and Central Africa, needs to stop.
Backpacking has become an important of the travel market.
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Despite reasonable fears, Nigeria – home to Africa’s largest economy – has a lot to gain from signing on the proposed continent-wide free trade agreement.
Rapid urbanisation is one of the reasons that Nigeria’s demand for rice is so high.
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Elections are supposed to hold politicians accountable: Officials who fear losing their seat will work harder for voters. But in some countries, political competition actually makes government worse.
Drones are low cost and easy to operate.
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Ghana’s print media plays in shaping public opinion and disseminating knowledge about mental health disorders.
A new short drug treatment for tuberculosis, called BPaMZ, is showing promise in trials.
(The National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (Georgia) on behalf of TB Alliance)
We cannot end TB with century-old technologies and poor quality care. It is time to reinvent the way we are managing TB, and overcome our collective failures of the imagination.
Cameroon is in crisis. It needs an intervention.
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It has been nearly three years since the Anglophone crisis began in Cameroon. The conflict has been vicious and it’s time for world leaders to act not just talk.
When teachers collaborate, they learn from each other.
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A new research project is helping Nigerien women access valuable, accurate information from which they are too often cut off.
A health-care worker wears virus protective gear at a treatment center in Bikoro Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 13, 2018.
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History, and math, tell us that the Ebola virus spreads exponentially quickly. This means Ebola is a global problem and all nations need to rally – to stop the epidemic fast.