Climate action will check air pollution in Africa.
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Africa can check climate impact on health by taking 37 actions endorsed by environment ministers.
A storyline in the forthcoming ‘Wonka’ movie is that the central character can change a dutiful young girl’s life.
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The original storyline for Road Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” contained some stunning parallels to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Indian visitors look at a painting depicting the Amritsar Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh.
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Fewer than a quarter of once-colonized countries make official government-to-government requests for an apology or reparations.
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The system’s promoters must figure out how to compensate the African countries that run trade surpluses.
Drug resistance against malaria and other diseases is a growing problem.
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Africa bears the heaviest burden of antimicrobial resistance, a phenomenon fuelled largely by poverty, But there are encouraging signs that the continent is taking action to fight it.
Open sewage at Kenya’s largest slum, Kibera, in Nairobi.
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The struggle with open defecation is a silent emergency, undermining the continent’s efforts towards sustainable development goals.
Rapid urbanisation and population growth in Africa have pushed people to informal settlements.
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The impact of housing quality extends beyond health to education and subsequent economic outcomes, particularly for children.
Kenya’s supreme court judges annul the results of the 2017 presidential election.
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Two conditions enable courts to take the risk of nullifying the elections of ruling party candidates.
A Belt and Road Initiative’s bridge being built over L. Victoria, Tanzania.
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Areas such as artificial intelligence, green development, e-commerce, and tech cooperation have been added.
Visitors engage with artefacts at the exhibit.
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The exhibit offers a close look at the problematic history of palaeoanthropology.
An Amazon poison frog (Ranitomeya amazonica).
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New research looks at how different species have managed to cross geographic barriers throughout history and whether their individual traits played a crucial role in these journeys.
Luanda, the capital of Angola.
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African economic growth is central to what happens in this century to both global poverty and global inequality.
Pope Francis (in white) at the opening session of a major congress on the Catholic Church’s future on 4 October 2023.
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Divisions and tensions in the global church are affecting the church in Africa.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in 2004, shortly after the publication of ‘Purple Hibiscus.’
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African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva during the World Bank Group and IMF meetings in Washington in April 2023.
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Many sources of finance, including those from the World Bank and IMF, don’t adequately cater for African nations’ specific needs.
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In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we hear from the scientists behind a new malaria vaccine developed by the University of Oxford.
Hemachatus nyangensis in Nyanga National Park, Zimbabwe.
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The Nyanga rinkhals can tell us about our own evolution.
China provides billions of dollars in loans and direct investments to African nations each year.
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Politicians and scholars debate whether China’s economic investments in Africa benefit or exploit local populations. But what does the public think?
Pirates leave a Ukrainian merchant vessel for Somalia’s shore in 2008.
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The success of the Somali case illustrates what a high degree of shared interests among international actors can achieve.
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Without refugee status people aren’t able to receive valuable support, like the right to live and work in a country.