A street vendor sells bananas in a town near Kilimanjaro.
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Rural Tanzanians and those living in the city eat unhealthy diets, but their circumstances are very different.
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Emotional, violent and sexual abuse are rife at an age when victims are scarred for life.
Crowds gather at the Saturday market in Lalibela, Ethiopia in 2019. Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is growing three times faster than the global average.
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Environmental policymakers and scholars must listen to sub-Saharan Africans’ voices and recognize the importance of population for achieving sustainable development goals.
Drug resistance against malaria and other diseases is a growing problem.
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Africa bears the heaviest burden of antimicrobial resistance, a phenomenon fuelled largely by poverty, But there are encouraging signs that the continent is taking action to fight it.
A high priest holds a cross during the celebrations of the Ethiopian Orthodox holiday of Meskel in Addis Ababa in September 2023.
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News coverage of Ethiopia’s ethnic conflicts has overshadowed the growing tensions and polarisation between religious communities.
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Paulina Bleah , Queen's University, Ontario ; Danielle Macdonald , Queen's University, Ontario ; Pilar Camargo-Plazas , Queen's University, Ontario , and Rosemary Wilson , Queen's University, Ontario
People with diabetes in Liberia face a vicious cycle of hunger and neglect that can sometimes spiral out of control and put their lives in danger.
Almost half of all sixth-grade students in Niger struggle to read a simple sentence.
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Overall, differences in teachers’ subject knowledge could explain a third of the differences in student learning between the 14 countries.
Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba speaks during a trade conference in London in 2018.
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Gabon is resource rich, but the Bongo family’s continuous rule has been bad news for the country of 2.3 million people.
Supporters of Niger’s July 2023 coup celebrate in the capital, Niamey.
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Examining how military coups unfold is crucial to understanding a country’s path back to democracy.
Refugees, some of them children, in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
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Exploring the potential intersections between climate change and violence against children is crucial.
Workers in one of the poly-tunnels of an urban farm in South Africa.
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Urban farms can work in developing countries if farmers and architects are aware of conditions that favour food production in built spaces.
Banyamulenge community members at the funeral of one of their own in eastern DRC.
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The Banyamulenge have been viewed as strangers in their own country – the violence targeting them revolves around this misconception.
Local residents gather around the biggest mosque in the region for the evening prayer in Bahai, Chad.
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Chad fulfils all conditions to be affected by Islamist terrorism. But the threat so far comes from its neighbours, not from the inside.
Agriculture is still largely manual in a several parts of the continent.
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Average farm machinery use in Africa is among the lowest in the world.
Delegates at an African Union summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in 2022.
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Member states need to arrive at binding, transparent and enforceable priorities to see progress.
Where people live can determine their station in life.
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Lowering spatial inequalities can reduce economic and social inequities.
Antimicrobial use in poultry is threatening the health of consumers in Nigeria.
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Indiscriminate antimicrobial use in Nigeria’s poultry value chain is putting people at risk of developing resistance to medicines.
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Eight countries are projected to be behind 50% of the growth in population over the next three decades. Five are in Africa.
New knowledge can sprout from different research approaches.
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Researchers in sub-Saharan Africa ought to fuse conventional Western theories of knowledge and local theories of knowledge.
Algorithm can help farmers and governments make smart farming decisions.
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Algorithms can help determine what farm inputs and policies can boost food production.