In the fight against cholera, new research in the DRC suggests that the rehabilitation of water networks would be more sustainable than other interventions whose effectiveness is debatable.
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Male gorillas who spend more time with infants are expected to sire about 5 times more babies.
It’s been an eventful year for the Democratic Republic of Congo as the country prepares for elections.
The BBC drama about Rwanda tackles post-genocide events in a way few dramas or documentaries have done before.
There is an urgent need for a binding convention for the prohibition of violence against women.
We cannot end TB with century-old technologies and poor quality care. It is time to reinvent the way we are managing TB, and overcome our collective failures of the imagination.
Malaria can be transmitted from humans to gorillas, with devastating effects.
With the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two leaders who fight against sexual violence as a tool of war, we looked into our archive to find stories about those efforts across the globe.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been hit with another Ebola outbreak. This may be the test case for how to deal with future outbreaks.
Women in the DRC are much more than victims of violence and coming together to effect change.
The DRC’s roads are a crucial space where conflict, illegal taxation, and conflict financing entangle.
Emmanuel Shadary is President Joseph Kabila’s preferred presidential candidate meaning that Kabila could remain in power if not in office.
The Law and Order Index says South Africans feel less secure than people in Yemen, the DRC and Libya, countries all affected by violent conflict.
In Africa, biased media coverage is one of the reasons voters have little faith in credible elections.
Jean-Pierre Bemba is a man with a past. Once accused of crimes against humanity, he is now making a play for the DRC’s presidency.
Sexual violence, a staple of war, has long been absent from international criminal law’s charge sheets.
African leaders need to acknowledge the gravity of the Congo crisis and apply pressure on Kabila.
The UN promotes local ownership in peace building, which is difficult to achieve.
The football world cup offers a useful chance to consider the apparent division between North and sub-Saharan Africa.
Wider access to technology has increased possibilities to share stories via digital means.
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Lecturer in African History, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor in International Development, University of Antwerp
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Lecturer in International Development, University of Bath
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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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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Assistant professor, University of Groningen
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Research Director of the Insecure Livelihoods Project, Ghent University
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Adjunct assistant professor, University of Copenhagen
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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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Researcher and lecturer, City University of New York
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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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Research Fellow at Institute for Democracy Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa, University of Cape Town
