He will have a joyful welcome but a difficult task - to challenge negative values while enabling a more African Catholic church.
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Every year, 1.7 billion people, most in the world’s poorest areas, are affected by NTDs. The diseases cause suffering, stigma, disability and sometimes death.
Football provides a way for unpopular elites to build political capital – but also creates space for citizens to voice dissent.
The Angolan Highlands are hydrologically and ecologically important - and the region’s newly mapped peatlands are valuable “carbon sinks”.
A specific regional protocol could ease the management of internally displaced persons in the region.
African Catholics are growing in number. They are also reinventing and reinterpreting Christianity.
Destructive mining in Congo’s protected areas is rampant because it generates money for citizens, officials and armed groups.
The findings suggest that poaching rates are lower where there is strong national governance and levels of local human development are higher.
There are advantages to a regional force overseen by the East African Community – particularly as the bloc is leading new political talks.
The East African Court of Justice has been a keen promoter of the rule of law, democracy and human rights.
Consolidating peace efforts across the vast territory has proved difficult for close to three decades. Scholars explain why.
In 2018, Africa accounted for 70% of the world’s people displaced by armed conflict and human rights abuses.
Eight countries are projected to be behind 50% of the growth in population over the next three decades. Five are in Africa.
Smuggling in Uganda’s West Nile region is seen as an act of defiance – a way to make ends meet in the face of perceived state neglect.
Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo is used to win a place in government, not to overthrow it. And it keeps working.
Ebola is a highly transmissible disease but its spread can be prevented through behavioural measures.
When tackling an Ebola outbreak speed is a critical element - every hour counts.
Though child marriage rates are declining globally, the practice remains worryingly common in some African countries.
Beitbridge and Musina are two border towns in Zimbabwe and South Africa that see many migrants pass through – with different health needs.
Canada is connected to the Democratic Republic of Congo through the global economy, international peacekeeping efforts and migration. We must not ignore violence because it’s far away.
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Lecturer in African History, Queen Mary University of London
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Lecturer in International Development, University of Bath
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Professor in International Development, University of Antwerp
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Assistant professor, University of Groningen
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Part-time lecturer at the Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard University, and Lecturer at the School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Liberia
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Research Director of the Insecure Livelihoods Project, Ghent University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Senior researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies
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Adjunct assistant professor, University of Copenhagen
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Professor of Francophone Studies (Africa, Caribbean), Faculty Affiliate with Africana Studies, World Literature Program and Human Rights Pracice, University of Arizona
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Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Assistant professor, Wageningen University
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Assistant professor in Globalisation, International Development and Poverty, University of Antwerp
