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Biological and chemical substances are the most common food contaminants and account for over 200 food-borne illnesses.
Both cults and violent extremist movements have similar push and pull factors at the individual level.
Sudan’s current conflict will have economic, social and political ripple effects across a number of countries
Instead of the deluge of external interventions, ways must be found to build resilience from below, drawing on local practices and networks.
The Ugandan militant remains on the run despite a US$5 million bounty on his head for war crimes committed between 1987 and 2006.
Cholera has persisted longer in Africa largely due to worsening hygiene and sanitation situations in urban areas.
Ahead of 2023 general elections, there are increasing concerns that the current spate of violence in Nigeria, if unchecked, could undermine electoral outcomes.
Leaders at the centre of the Ethio-Tigray war don’t believe in equal partnership. In their political cultures, winners take all.
Art stolen from African kingdoms is a knowledge system plundered by colonialists, who must take historical responsibility.
Nigeria must strengthen its democratic institutions and improve governance for economic development.
Plants have evolved several ways to deal with heavy metals that might otherwise poison or kill them.
The Sudan strain of the Ebola virus has been identified in Uganda for the first time in more than a decade.
Millions of Somalis are in urgent need of aid. But not enough is being done to reach marginalised groups.
Since the Brexit referendum in 2016, Africa has slipped from its precarious but tangible place in UK political discourse.
Cameroon has many potentially dangerous gas-charged lakes. But not much has been done to mitigate the risks they pose.
A project to transcribe Dutch colonial records of the weather in Cape Town can benefit modelling of future climate scenarios and assist in forecasting weather now.
The global realignment triggered by the end of the Cold War and Gorbachev’s reforms ushered in a period of transition on the African continent.
A comparison of star-forming galaxies suggests, surprisingly, that dark matter and visible matter do interact – taking us closer to understanding what keeps the galaxies together.
Rainwater may be contaminated with chemicals and scientists are still uncertain about their effects.
Top contributors
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Professor in Global Development, SOAS, University of London
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Professor, Weber State University
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Emeritus Research Professor of African Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Head of the Chemistry Divison, Ain Shams University
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Senior Researcher in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Sociology and Global and Africana Studies, University of Tennessee
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Chief Research Scientist and Director, Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Professor of Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Historical climate and weather, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate professor, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor, Colgate University
