Spraying houses with insecticide is a temporary solution.
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To achieve malaria elimination on the continent, Africans need to own the agenda.
Young people living in urban informal settlement are exposed to high levels of violence and poverty.
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Young people living in the challenging contexts of urban informal settlements may be more at risk of experiencing generalised anxiety disorder.
Nigeria’s poverty profile is embarrassing
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Nigeria needs more industrial production, foreign and domestic investment, not just handouts.
The Kariba Dam, a hydroelectric dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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The socio-economic and political factors that keep conventional energy out of reach of the poor can do the same with renewable energy.
More governments and aid organizations are giving poor people cash.
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Despite evidence that cash payments can help improve well-being, they have limitations as well, according to a development economist.
Growing poverty and unemployment have seen shacklands mushroom in post-apartheid South Africa.
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The country still has a way to go in addressing the challenges of social inequity. But there has been some progress in every sphere of government.
Kenyan flower exports to Europe fell 50%, affecting about 1 million people.
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Restricting trade to control the pandemic damages livelihoods, especially those of the urban poor. The control of future pandemics must strike a balance between health and economic activity.
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Kenya’s urban poor lack enough food and the little they can afford is often unsafe and of poor nutritional value.
People receiving food handouts in Lagos, Nigeria.
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The Nigerian government must adopt a process that is open in implementing its social assistance programmes.
The poorest urban dwellers can spend up to 60% of their income on food.
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Africa’s industries are not growing at the same pace as its cities, leaving the informal economy as the main source of income for many. COVID-19 lockdowns have cut this umbilical cord.
A Tanzanian farmer tractor driver in Makuyuni, Arusha, Tanzania.
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Why poverty line data do not capture the ability of Tanzanians to build relatively good houses.
Untapped energy sources: hydro-power potential is concentrated along the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe’s energy policy needs to be reconsidered if the country’s electricity shortage is to be resolved.
Hard work and poor prospects for smallholder farming households in Africa.
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Smallholder farming might not be able to generate enough value on its own, but farmers still need support.
Mozambique uses income as a measure of poverty. On this basis, poverty has declined over the past two decades.
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Income is a useful measure for tracking economic progress over time. But a broader lens is needed to understand the relational and often political ways in which poverty emerges and is reproduced.