The Master of Science in Global Health Delivery Class of 2018.
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Many health professionals leave Africa because they don’t know how to handle the non-clinical systemic problems.
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There are many reasons to be careful when there’s a big storm. But there are also ways you can protect yourself to avoid lightning.
Education has a bearing on prospects for sustainable economic opportunities as it feeds the market.
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The gaps in African government are twofold: governance and education. It is important to focus on both areas to bring about overall improvements.
Different approaches to e-governance could bear fruit for African countries.
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African countries’ adoption of e-government platforms hasn’t served the majority of their citizens.
Solar panels in Alexandra, Johannesburg.
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The value of green technologies and systems is that they are largely decentralised or semi-decentralised.
Skulls of those murdered by the Pol Pot regime in the Killing Fields of Cambodia in a shrine to the dead.
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For Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, ‘never again’ was ‘a prayer, a promise, a vow’. Unfortunately, this vow is all too often broken.
Medium-scale African farmers are relatively wealthy and influential.
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Medium-scale farms are an important driver of agricultural and rural transformation in much of Africa.
Some male gorillas regularly hold, play and groom infants.
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Male gorillas who spend more time with infants are expected to sire about 5 times more babies.
Rwanda holds the world record in share of female MPs.
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Women identify more with their government representatives based on ethnicity rather than gender.
Cellphones are everywhere in Africa - but that doesn’t mean the digital divide is closing.
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We don’t have the data in developing countries, and in global statistics to know if the digital divide is being closed.
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The BBC drama about Rwanda tackles post-genocide events in a way few dramas or documentaries have done before.
Censorship has been in the news again following Rwanda passing a new law.
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Political and editorial cartoons are a key indicator of the democratic health of a country - but they can also be regressive.
Rift Valley fever is a disease passed from mosquitoes to animals then to people.
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Outbreaks of zoonotic diseases call for a collaborative approach to surveillance.
Many rural communities across Africa have dropped kerosene lighting for various electrical lights.
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A lighting revolution is underway across Africa that’s occurred largely without government or donor involvement.
Africa’s waterways, like the Barotse floodplain in Zambia, must be properly managed.
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African countries need to urgently develop coherent and strategic policies around water, land and agriculture.
Names of victims of the Rwandan Genocide in Kigali.
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The Rwanda Tribunal convicted people for indescribably horrific crimes and some are asking for early release.
Awkward: Rwandan President Paul Kagame visits his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.
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After the 1994 genocide, Rwanda pivoted towards the Anglophone world. But not entirely.
People from the DRC flee the fighting. Movement of people is restricted across the continent.
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The free movement of people between African countries could facilitate economic development.
Inside the 1994 Kigali Genocide Memorial.
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An investigative work by journalist Judi Rever is an indictment, describing massacres committed by the Kagame regime so as to establish their qualification as a genocide.
Palestinian protesters run for cover from Israeli teargas in May.
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The UN’s Responsibility to Protect framework for safeguarding civilians against atrocities could help resolve the Gaza crisis.