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The region’s forces are seen as important in addressing the long-running conflict in the DRC – but their involvement is complicated.
Nigeria must do more to reduce its high malaria burden.
A new global dataset shows there is no clear global increase of infectious disease outbreaks over time. And it can suggest which countries would most likely be affected by an outbreak.
Countries must ensure adequate and full immunisation of every child to curb polio mutations.
Thirty years ago the World Bank recognised that its position was untenable. It put in place mechanisms to make the bank more accountable to ordinary people.
The Banyamulenge have been viewed as strangers in their own country – the violence targeting them revolves around this misconception.
The Ugandan militant remains on the run despite a US$5 million bounty on his head for war crimes committed between 1987 and 2006.
Internet access opens up the world in many ways.
The joint border commission between Kenya and South Sudan is a step in the right direction.
The Wagner Group has become a tool to further Russian objectives in Africa without attracting the scrutiny that regular military units would.
He will have a joyful welcome but a difficult task - to challenge negative values while enabling a more African Catholic church.
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.
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Lecturer in African History, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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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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