By Shabnam Salehi, PhD Candidate, Law, Carleton University; L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Pakistani jets recently bombed the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, a facility with 2,000 beds dedicated to helping patients recover from drug addiction.
Authorities in Afghanistan, along with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and various news agencies, reported…
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By Merling Phaswana, Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
Philippe Gradidge, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa is facing an alarming increase in non-communicable diseases and related mortality. According to Statistics South Africa, deaths due to non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension increased by over 58% between 1997 and 2018.
The crisis of overweight and obesity in the country adds to the risk of these diseases. Nearly 40% of the adult population is overweight. Although physical…
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By Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso, Senior Lecturer at Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora, Nigeria and Senior Research Associate at North West University, North-West University
Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, Ass. Professor, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Agriculture is the backbone of Africa’s economy. It provides livelihoods for over 70% of the rural population and contributes to national food security and economic development.
For most rural households, farming is not just a source of income and sustenance. It also provides cultural identity and social stability. Over the past two decades, however, rural Africa has witnessed increasing…
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By David Campbell Francis, Senior Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
Siphelele Ngidi, Associate Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
Traders in the informal economy need a supportive ecosystem so they can move beyond survival and contribute to local growth and development.
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By Ding Fei, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Chinese-funded infrastructure projects in African cities are driven by the national elites and therefore do not necessarily lead to community-level improvements.
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By Ed Hutchinson, Professor, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow
A first human H9N2 bird flu case in Europe has been detected in Italy. A virologist explains why the current risk is low and what to watch next.
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By MJ (Thinus) Booysen, Professor in Engineering, Stellenbosch University
Across much of Africa, motorcycles are not leisure vehicles. They are workhorses. They carry commuters, schoolchildren, goods, medicines and deliveries. For millions of people, they provide the most affordable and accessible form of transport, while also creating livelihoods for riders and small businesses.
In many places, they
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By Charlie Walker, Associate Professor of Comparative Sociology, University of Southampton
Bettina Renz, Professor of International Security, University of Nottingham
After disastrous wars in Chechnya and Afghanistan, Russia found it hard to recruit soldiers. But it has worked hard to rememdy this problem.
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By Ed Macaulay, Lecturer in Physics and Data Science, Queen Mary University of London
The astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are preparing to launch into space on a trajectory that will make them the first humans to travel to the Moon in over half a century.
Their 10-day mission, known as Artemis II, loops around the Moon but will not land. It will see them travel 4,700 miles (7,600 kilometres) beyond the lunar far side in Nasa’s Orion spacecraft. As such, the four astronauts will travel further…
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By Nick Dalton, Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle
From Apple II to the iPhone, time and again this extraordinary company has anticipated the value of opening up computing to everyone.
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