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Drawing lessons from Sierra Leone and having watched the mid-2026 outbreak in the DRC, I conclude that it risks become a global epidemic.
The next phase of the response must not be about deploying more people into communities simply to deliver interventions.
Baleinières, handmade wooden cargo ships, are floating microcosms of life in the DR Congo.
The okapi’s story reveals how Indigenous knowledge shaped its discovery, while colonialism, mining and conflict now threaten this remarkable rainforest animal.
The scientist who discovered Likweli describes years of searching for the species, new to science.
The issue of internal displacement remains poorly understood despite the very large number of people involved.
An Ebola vaccine designed for a different species is now being trialled against the outbreak in the DRC and Uganda.
An eight-country study assessed whether parenting programmes that were developed through research also work when offered at a wider scale in real-life conditions.
Ancient carbon is leaking from two lakes in the Congo Basin, revealing a previously unknown link between tropical peatlands and the atmosphere.
The DRC is making a third attempt to bring Rwanda before the world’s highest court in relation to the violence in its eastern region.
Most states know that without widely understood and accepted international laws and principles it would be harder to resolve their disagreements peacefully.
Understanding how female baboons benefit from social bonds helps humans understand their own origins.
A new continent-wide map is helping identify where Africa’s groundwater can support drinking water and irrigation. Monitoring boreholes tracks aquifer health.
When armed groups use child recruitment or sexual violence, the impact of conflict on schooling is much more severe than in conflicts without these tactics.
Events in eastern DRC are a reminder that Ebola outbreaks are rarely controlled by vaccines alone.
Global health funding cracks do not bode well for pandemic governance as recent disease outbreaks are reminding us. What does this mean for developing countries and how do they cope with health emergencies?
The steps set out in the report on global pandemic preparedness are vitally important for managing future outbreaks.
The meat of wild animals, or wild meat, is a big part of the diets of millions of people in central Africa.
The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has the potential to become huge and of long duration.
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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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Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London
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Reader 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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Visiting Researcher, University of Leeds
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Research Director of the Insecure Livelihoods Project, Ghent University
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Assistant professor, Utrecht University
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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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Researcher and lecturer, City University of New York
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Associate Professor International Law, Roskilde University
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Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Adjunct assistant professor, Roskilde University
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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