A child receives the MenAfriVac™ vaccine in Burkina Faso.
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Vaccines that help prevent meningococcal disease don’t give lifetime protection.
Where is the recovery?
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Only a couple of months until the elections, the frontrunner is behind bars and the economic agenda of the next government is anyone’s guess.
HIRAX prototype dishes at Hartebeesthoek Astronomy Observatory near Johannesburg.
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By sharing a location with the SKA, HIRAX will be able to conduct science in “radio-clear” skies across its wide frequency range.
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Aretha Franklin, the ‘Queen of Soul’, was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Nanomedicine could scupper the need for TB patients to take multiple daily tablets with toxic side effects.
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The reason that nanoparticles hold such hope for TB treatment is that they can be carefully targeted.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (middle) bringing the leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and other religious leaders together.
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Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali’s project of reconciliation can be greatly helped by the Orthodox Church.
The Ponte Morandi bridge, Genoa, after its collapse, which has claimed dozens of lives.
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Bridge engineering does not end when construction finishes and traffic starts to flow.
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A look at Hajj-going among British Muslims shows how modern transport and marketisation have led to huge changes.
Style icon: Madonna at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 2018.
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Happy birthday Ms Ciccone – you redefine age.
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen weaves a traditional cotton scarf In Phnom Penh in June. He won the recent Cambodia election in a landslide after literally rigging the vote by banning the main opposition party, among other tricks.
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The re-election of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen contributes to the growing global democratic crisis. Here’s why.
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The warm period will occur even on top of regular climate change.
Ebola vaccination team member administering Ebola vaccine in Beni, North Kivu, DRC.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been hit with another Ebola outbreak. This may be the test case for how to deal with future outbreaks.
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Fields of sunflowers are now a common sight all over the world – but this has only been the case relatively recently.
The appointment of South Africa’s national prosecutions head Shaun Abrahams has been declared invalid.
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South Africa’s Constitutional Court judgment shows concern that the independence of the country’s prosecuting authority has been compromised.
Power to the people.
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In a country where less-than-democratic elites wield substantial power, bottom-up politics is still alive and well.
Congolese health workers prepare equipment before the launch of vaccination campaign against the deadly Ebola virus.
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A study of recent epidemics like Zika and Ebola suggests that the media may fail to tell the public what to do during an outbreak.
Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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President Erdoğan is accusing the West of striving to destabilise Turkey.
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One of the world’s worst refugee crises is still unfolding, and conditions on the ground have barely improved.
Anti-Joseph Kabila protesters left five people dead and scores injured in Kinshasa.
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Emmanuel Shadary is President Joseph Kabila’s preferred presidential candidate meaning that Kabila could remain in power if not in office.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo (centre left) shakes hands with his vice-presidential running mate, Ma'ruf Amin (centre right), during a meeting with supporters before registering their bid for the 2019 election in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Ma’ruf Amin’s selection as Joko Widodo’s running mate in his re-election bid means that politicians continue to accommodate the conservative turn among Indonesian Islamic groups to win votes.