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Pregnant or parenting adolescents girls often shoulder childcare and household costs alone. DC Studio/Magnify

Pregnant and parenting teens in Nairobi’s informal settlements: the hidden mental toll of stigma

Adolescent girls carry the blame for early pregnancy, yet the boys and men who got them pregnant remain invisible.
Land fenced off for the Bolobedu solar park. Courtesy Damien Mansell.

How can rural communities benefit from South Africa’s green energy transition? A solar farm in Limpopo offers clues

Solar farms can bring jobs, but the story of one South African community shows that rural residents who give up their land need more say in how benefits are shared.
Harvesting grapes from one of the two founder vines of the Rubaksum Tsellim landrace, trained over a household pergola in Aksum, Tigray. Yemane Hailu Fissuh

Tigray’s old grapevines have survived against the odds: new research uncovers their genetic and historic value

A distinctive local variety of grapevine from Ethiopia’s Tigray region could offer potential as a dryland crop.

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