Community schools reach otherwise unschooled children.
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Community-based education, or community schools, are alternative education models that lack school infrastructure.
Land is a contentious and emotive issue.
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Some South African land owners feel like the current debate portrays them as being opposed to reform rather than cooperative.
Conditions in Kenya’s slums like Mathare are not conducive to healthy life choices.
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A study in Kenya found that that there’s an association between relatively higher economic status and obesity in a slum setting.
Girls in Kenya face a range of challenges.
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Interventions for vulnerable girls in Kenya aim to empower and keep them safe.
It’s projected that Africa’s population will double by 2050.
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Empowered women make millions of decisions that add up to a better demographic situation for themselves, their children and for Africa.
Kenya needs policies that aim to draw women into STEM and retain them.
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Gender biases are revealed in enrolment inequalities and policies that favour male students.
Climate change also has an impact on public health.
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Scientists need to continue working across disciplines to find ways to disrupt disease transmission in the context of climate change.
Foreign spaza shop owners are being accused of selling “fake” food.
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Foreign shop-owners in South Africa are accused of selling counterfeit food and food beyond its sell-by date. These claims are driven by politically charged opinions, not evidence.
A small hospital in Wakiso district in the central region of Uganda.
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Only 16 out of 48 African countries and islands have access to hospital services within the WHO’s two-hour time threshold.
A bustling local market in Kumasi, Ghana.
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Policymakers in Africa approach rural and urban development separately. This needs to change.
Research-intensive universities can produce world class researchers.
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Working with African universities to effectively become research-intensive could transform sub-Saharan Africa’s higher education landscape.
Many rural communities across Africa have dropped kerosene lighting for various electrical lights.
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A lighting revolution is underway across Africa that’s occurred largely without government or donor involvement.
Research suggests that women enterprises in Tanzania are shy to take up business loans.
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Women-owned small business in Tanzania stay away from formal loans because of their negative beliefs about loans.
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With the right investment, the next few years could be extremely exciting for Nigerian neuroscience.
Herbalists mostly recommend treating underlying physiological condition through herbal remedies.
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Understanding the different beliefs about disorders is important in efforts to improve mental health care in developing countries.
Since independence in 1960, Madagascar has experienced a handful of political crises.
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A major challenge for Madagascar’s new president will be to create jobs, especially in the industrial and service sectors.
A diversity of seeds on sale in Nanyuki market, Kenya.
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Developing countries could leapfrog industrial agriculture systems by moving to agroecology.
Social media is becoming a formal political platform in Uganda.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s grip on power remains strong but pockets of dissent are emerging from digital platforms.
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Under representation of women in the science and engineering career fields is a result of poor work life balance.
Africa’s waterways, like the Barotse floodplain in Zambia, must be properly managed.
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African countries need to urgently develop coherent and strategic policies around water, land and agriculture.