In sub-Saharan Africa, over 300,000 people are envenomed each year, leading to over 7,000 deaths and almost twice as many amputations.
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The South African government and coal industry need to move fast to set up a plan to turn old coal mines and power stations into job-creating hubs after they close.
Digital tools need better ethics, otherwise they will further entrench inequality.
Many African food groups significantly reduce oxidative stress linked to type 2 diabetes and lower the production of inflammatory markers.
Contracting out healthcare requires state capacity and public participation.
A combination of education, income and technology has a strong influence on women’s reproductive autonomy.
Technology can help countries with high levels of informal workers build stronger tax systems, if there are strong foundations and the right incentives.
Ghanaian clergy wives constantly bargain for space.
In South Africa, many low-income families who’ve never had electricity can’t afford solar power. Solar mini-grids could help.
South African homes need two-way meters so that they can feed extra solar power from home systems and electric vehicles back to the grid.
When floods happen, disadvantages mount and people fall further behind.
Tackling and contact in rugby should be slowly introduced to children to teach them how to do it safely.
The documentary is a conversation between mother and daughter, moving between personal memory and historical reckoning.
Zambia’s smallholder farmers face rising cases of heatstroke when working.
Wild fish sustain life in Sierra Leone’s fishing towns, but declining stocks mean fish farming is needed. However, fishing communities distrust farmed fish.
Social transfers don’t operate in a vacuum. They can strengthen trust or erode it, build cohesion or fuel resentment.
Rating agencies shape the policy space for pursuing development goals. Yet they remain private firms, operating under commercial incentives.
Hydroponic farming is a good way to grow fresh fruit and vegetables in South African cities where high levels of unemployment and poverty make these unaffordable.
Unequal access to contraception poses risks to reproductive-age women, families and Nigeria’s development.
The Lobito Corridor has become strategically important in the global scramble for critical resources.
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Sociology (Criminology, Victimology and Security Studies), University of Ibadan
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
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