The Nigerian military needs a systemic approach to solving family disruptions and strains often caused by personnel deployment away from home.
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The health and wellbeing effects will go beyond the direct impact of war-related fatalities, and are likely to last for years after peace is fully restored.
To support precarious households that can’t access existing relief during lockdown and its aftermath, the government should implement a temporary increase in the value of the child support grant.
President Ramaphosa’s emphasis on fighting crime is well placed. Most categories of violent crimes have risen dramatically over the past eight years.
Research shows that abuse, violence and poor relationships in families may have dire consequences for society, and specifically children.
Book adds a great deal to our understanding of how children were ensnared into the Indian Ocean slave trade.
Opening up positions of political power to women will lead to effective and better implemented development policies.
If women don’t have access to quality emergency surgery, they can develop dibilitating complications such as fistula.
Despite all Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed’s inspirational reforms, there can be no progress without the rural majority.
Health workers promote exclusive breastfeeding to HIV positive mothers more than they do to mothers who are negative.
South African learners receiving two meals, despite being from arguably poorer backgrounds, had statistically significantly lower stunting levels than children receiving only one meal.
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NRF Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research; Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town
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PhD candidate in Economics, UMass Amherst
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Communication/Security Consultant, Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Facilitator, University of Ibadan
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Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Researcher in Social Development, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of History, University of Botswana
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Research Fellow at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham
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Postdoctoral Fellow Global Health, University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI), Makerere University
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SARChI: Human Capabilities, Social Cohesion and the Family, University of the Western Cape
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Phd candidate in Economics, UMass Amherst
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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DPhil candidate, International Development, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, Mekelle University; Scientia PhD scholar, George Institute for Global Health, UNSW Sydney
