A church-goer attends an inclusive church for the LGBTI community in Rwanda.
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A significant number of Rwanda’s LGBT community experience hostility. This includes at work and when trying to access health services.
France’s President Emmanuel Macron (R) and Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Africa, home to the largest number of French speakers, plays a key role in the present and future of the French language.
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Industry has renewed confidence after Boeing made commitments to redesign aircraft and train pilots
Thousands of people have fled inter-ethnic clashes in northern Cameroon.
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The failures of nominally elected governments has denied leaders - as well as the democratic system - a vanguard popular constituency.
Farmers test new practices to cope with climate impacts in Kenya.
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Hardline positions could narrow the options available to farmers and conservation practitioners in a way that can be harmful to both.
Rift Valley Fever virus, 3D illustration.
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Manufacturing is just one part of the vaccine ecosystem. It’s the health system that delivers vaccines and people must be willing to take them.
French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and President of Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kabore at the Elysee Palace, in Paris in November.
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Macron’s approach to Africa policy emulates the 1950’s strategies. Why? A big part of the answer can be found in the fact that today’s global circumstances are similar to those of post-World War II.
A young man watches a Standard Gauge Railway passenger train zoom over his home in Taita Taveta county, south-eastern Kenya.
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Contrary to the government’s promises of prosperity, Kenya’s mega-railway is heading down the wrong track of development.
Staff members of Local NGO Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, on March 20, 2020.
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Models can predict the risk and spread of diseases and establish the time and place to implement optimal prevention and control mechanisms.
Many Kenyan students have had limited access to computers.
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Integrating technology into schools involves understanding the dynamic relationship between technology, how it’s used in the classroom and the content of the curriculum.
Coding can enhance children’s creativity and their understanding of mathematics.
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Coding is beneficial to children, irrespective of their career path later on in life.
Residents of Sake in the Democratic Republic of Congo leave their homes to avoid clashes between rebels and government forces.
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More than two out of three displaced people are not refugees, but remain within their own country.
Binyavanga Wainaina.
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Binyavanga Wainana was a brilliant writer and sharp thinker, creative and unruly.
Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador.
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Because the interactions between trees, soils, crops and livestock can be positive or negative, their relationship must be balanced and understood.
Pastoralists rely on water tankers and aid in times of drought.
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Changes in weather patterns have made life a great deal more precarious for pastoral communities.
Malaysia’s wildlife department seized 50 African rhino horns destined for Vietnam last year.
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Our findings suggest that the demand for rhino horn is unlikely to fall because people’s beliefs are firmly entrenched.
Solar powered street lights in Kampala, Uganda.
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Solar lights can help local governments drastically reduce their spending on electricity bills.
Delays in rainfall have led to increased food insecurity in Kenya.
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In recent years, the delay and failure of rains in Kenya has become a norm.
About 40% of Cameroon’s territory is covered in forest.
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Forest communities have seen little or no change in improving livelihoods and stopping deforestation.
Sudanese protesters are demanding the departure of President Omar al-Bashir.
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Sudan’s academics have been instrumental in bringing regime change and negotiating transitions.