International migrants often struggle to access healthcare.
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Excluding international migrants from the public health care system can result in a population wide risk.
Supporters of Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari, at a rally earlier this year.
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In the recent Nigerian election WhatsApp was used to mislead voters in increasingly sophisticated ways. But it also strengthened democracy in other areas.
Africa is data-rich and well connected. Therein lies the solution to many of its challenges.
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Data science, led by Africa-based scientists, could play a key role in addressing all of the continent’s crucial needs.
A closer look at men in South Africa reveals a very complicated picture.
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Poverty, traumatic experiences, and gender inequalities, directly increased HIV-risk behaviours such as having unprotected sex and having multiple sexual partners.
The practice of bride price has evolved.
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Bride price practice has both social and psychological implications for the men who pay and those women for whom it is paid.
Members of the NGO ‘SOS Mediterranee’ during the rescue of more than 250 migrants on a wooden boat off the Libyan coast.
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The ICC may be the only institution capable of breaking the current legal impasse.
Community members in Zandspruit west of Johannesburg block roads after their illegal electricity connections were removed.
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A clandestine system of transfer payment, with roots in apartheid-era boycotts, has developed into routine behaviour on which many family budgets now depend.
Uganda’s security officials have been known to use too much force when dealing with crowds.
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Uganda’s police have powers to use excessive force on citizens.
Scientists and medical practitioners can help turn goals into reality, such as through vaccine programmes.
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Science academies have a crucial role to play in developing ways for scientists to engage more effectively.
Dr Joseph Sempa of SACEMA presenting at the 2019 Clinic on Meaningful Modelling of Epidemiological Data.
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Applied Epidemiological Modelling has enormous potential to improve how decisions are made about public health in African countries.
A journalist at work with his camera.
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The state in Ghana still justifies taking steps that amount to suppression of the media.
Studies on mortality in sub-Saharan Africa haven’t focused on the effects of climate change.
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African countries need to take into account the effects environmental changes, like climate change, have on their ability to deal with food security, poverty reduction and lowering mortality rates.
Former President Jacob Zuma is fighting a batttle for political capital.
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By positioning himself as a loveable granddad to supporters and the punchline of a joke to his opposition, Zuma adroitly defangs the very serious charges against him.
Deploying the army in the Cape Flats constitutes nothing more than simply sticking band aid on a festering wound.
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Successes by the army and police on the Cape Flats will depend entirely on levels of cooperation established on an ad hoc basis.
Senegalese women cast their ballots in the presidential elections in February.
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Africa’s democracies have grown stronger during a period in which the world is backsliding on democracy.
An Eritrean migrant leaves a detention facility near Nitzana in the Negev Desert in Israel, near border with Egypt.
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The flow of unaccompanied minors from Eritrea has become the subject of international concern.
Senegal’s singer Ismael Lo performs during the second Pan-African Cultural Festival (PANAF) in Algeria in 2009.
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Pan-African festival marked the emergence of a post-imperial world
Former South African President Jacob Zuma recanted his decision to walk out of the Zondo Commission.
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The dilemma for Zuma and his legal team is this: by putting him on the witness stand, there is a risk that he would be found wanting, especially in terms of the detail of any matter.
Health officer on the front-line in the DRC.
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The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. What does this mean for the outbreak response?
A Kenyan women removes maize from husks.
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Understanding the political economy around maize production puts into context debates on key interventions in the value chain.