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The new ‘Star home’ has successfully reduced malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea among Tanzanian children. Courtesy Julien Lanoo

Better‑designed homes could cut three major child diseases by up to 44% – Tanzania trial

A three year study of Tanzanian children found that changing the way homes are designed can prevent diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria, and help children grow taller.
Planting groundnuts on a family farm in Uganda. Badru Katumba/Getty Images

Millions of farmers in Africa’s Great Lakes region face rising temperatures. Study predicts how crop disease and pests could spread

Figuring out how climate change will cause plant disease and pests to spread across Africa’s Great Lakes farms is critical for future food supplies.
Nocry Mzimba and Nurse Molamadi of the Black Mambas anti-poaching unit patrol Olifants West Nature Reserve, South Africa to prevent wildlife poaching. Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

Should wildlife parks be fenced? We studied 60 African examples for an answer

Nature reserve fences can protect wildlife and people, but they also break up natural landscapes, restrict animal movement, and affect nearby communities.
About 50 Tanzanians living in Cape Town protested against recent actions by the Tanzanian government in 2025. Rodger Bosch/Getty Images

Young Tanzanians are fed up with not getting a slice of the economic action – research

Tanzania’s October 29 protests were framed as an electoral dispute. Research links them to a deeper crisis of blocked adulthood among young people.

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