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Contraception saves lives, and U.S. spending on it abroad had an unintended upside when it formed the backbone of early HIV prevention efforts.
Uganda has won praise for the way it treats its refugees. But now it is at breaking point.
With steep budget cuts looming, a growing number of tiny volunteer-driven organizations are delivering aid on their own. Will the Trump administration inspire even more small-scale global giving?
According to 2016 rankings, Somalia is the most fragile state in the world, worse off even than Syria. But there are reasons to believe things will improve.
A former US diplomat explains why some programs may make sense to cut, while others are crucial to America’s moral standing.
As President Trump puts U.S. foreign aid on the chopping block, few Americans know much about it. Perhaps even fewer realize that the U.S. lags behind its peers on this front.
An active outbreak of a type of bird flu in China raises concerns about worldwide pandemics. Ebola and Zika viruses still threaten. Here’s why this is not the time to cut funding.
Sixty years on, the European Union is facing unprecedented challenges among member states. Can its relationship with Africa survive the storm?
The new Internet of Things has the potential to compensate for Africa’s legacies of underdevelopment.
Migrants keep going back to the vilified go-betweens that can get them construction jobs or domestic work.
Urban consumers in Africa are rapidly growing and they are demanding high quality, pesticide free food.
In its agenda to reform global economic governance the developing world should look for ways to extract some value from the G20.
Eritreans are at risk of severe malnutrition – but aid agencies struggle to access those in need.
The African pushback is as a result of the ICC’s own Africa strategy.
Cholera is estimated to infect between 3 to 5 million people globally, every year.
Global ride sharing app Uber, is experiencing different development trajectories in its two major African markets, Kenya and South Africa.
Thanks to foreign backing, social impact start-ups led by young entrepreneurs are flourishing in North Africa.
The continent needs investment – and China has long been providing it.
The Sahel region of Africa is a 3,860-kilometre arc-like land mass lying to the immediate south of the Sahara Desert and stretching east-west across the breadth of the African continent. A largely semi-arid…
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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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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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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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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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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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Scientific Officer, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Director of Research, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, University of Maryland
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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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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, China Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Politics, University of Birmingham
