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There have been notable examples of rating agencies differing significantly in their decisions on African institutions and countries.
Social capital matters in academic career progress.
Scientists are exploring light-activated nanoparticles to kill biofilms in stored drinking water, aiming to make household water safer in South Africa.
A powerful Super El Niño is looming. Africa has learned hard lessons from past climate disasters that could help the world prepare.
Well-run institutions are more resilient to financial instability and better positioned to attract long-term partnerships.
Power and pleasure collide with Black hopes and dreams in the show that has sparked global conversation.
The story of oil is focused on the US. But our oil-centred world was made through wider global relations.
Solutions for food systems exist; scaling them is where the challenge lies.
From roadside plots to community gardens, urban farmers in Alexandra township, South Africa are growing food, earning income and coping with climate change.
The increasing control of rural agricultural land by urban residents has implications for rural people and spaces.
Citizens don’t just respond to disasters. They also respond to how governments manage them.
Most states know that without widely understood and accepted international laws and principles it would be harder to resolve their disagreements peacefully.
Understanding how rural communities use fire is the first step in managing it.
Agency is the single most important factor shaping women’s dietary quality, not food availability or household income.
A new basic solar grant made electricity more affordable for families in the Qandu Qandu shack settlement in Cape Town, South Africa.
Africa is rapidly expanding electricity generation, but new research shows energy planning must also account for water scarcity and carbon dioxide emissions.
A German loan for fixing Johannesburg’s electricity utility is unlikely to make much difference to users yet: prices will probably rise faster than inflation.
A new continent-wide map is helping identify where Africa’s groundwater can support drinking water and irrigation. Monitoring boreholes tracks aquifer health.
Africa does not need another grand vision. It needs to treat the vision it already has as a discipline.
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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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Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University