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Bearing the burden of policies on conservation, together with the impact of out-competition by other sectors within the blue economy, has led to increased poverty in fishing communities.
Violence in Ethiopia could cause ripples across the Horn of Africa, destabilizing the region.
Military expenditure is a relevant policy option in reducing the negative effect of terrorism on economic growth in Africa.
Central banks have a responsibility in addressing the challenge of climate change. But how? Experts explore some ideas.
Livelihoods which communities have relied on for centuries are being criminalised by heavy-handed state restrictions.
Benin’s new abortion law will take a woman’s educational, professional and material situation into consideration.
Damon Galgut joins a distinguished line of South African authors, who are grappling with the complex dynamics of the country’s white community in their writing.
Migration can be a matter of life and death, but religion can help people cope.
Plus, why reusable food containers aren’t always better for the environment than disposable ones. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.
Young people’s use of technology such as Twitter shows that they are interested in politics and governance and have found a way to participate.
Africans are stereotyped as having no regard for time and timing. This is a myth.
Africa was divided by European imperialists depending on what each desired in natural resources
New technologies can help reduce the cost of producing maps that warn where floods might happen.
Young Nigerians are culturally encouraged to overdrink. How can they be protected?
Women and girls in low-income countries are disproportionately likely to be affected by the plastic waste that’s flooding our planet.
Major international donors, including the US and UK, are pledging to stop funding fossil fuel projects overseas, but they aren’t making the equivalent cuts at home.
African government and international funding partners should focus on building laboratories in different parts of Africa to support plastic pollution research.
Malaria is one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases. So why has it taken so long to get a vaccine?
But the vaccine isn’t perfect. So we’ll still need mosquito nets and insecticides too.
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Visiting Professor of Sustainability Science, Technical University of Denmark
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Director of Research, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, University of Maryland
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Scientific Officer, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Anthropologue et démographe, professeur émérite au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle et conseiller de la direction de l'INED, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
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Instructor of Political Science, James Madison University
