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Navigating healthcare uncertainty across Africa

With higher mortality rates for women and children, lack of access to infrastructure and medication, and the high cost of medication, Africa needs smart interventions to overcome the barriers to healthcare access and adoption.

Building Financial Resilience: How Savings and Loan Associations are Changing Lives in Rural Malawi

Living in extreme poverty with limited access to financial services and basic amenities like electricity and plumbing, Chifundo's life changes when she participates in a meeting organized by the American organization Villages in Partnership (VIP).

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Navigating healthcare uncertainty across Africa

With higher mortality rates for women and children, lack of access to infrastructure and medication, and the high cost of medication, Africa needs smart interventions to overcome the barriers to healthcare access and adoption.

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Navigating healthcare uncertainty across Africa

With higher mortality rates for women and children, lack of access to infrastructure and medication, and the high cost of medication, Africa needs smart interventions to overcome the barriers to healthcare access and adoption.

Influx of Refugees Strain South Sudan’s Transit Centers

South Sudan's transit centers in Renk are grappling with overcrowding as over 15,000 individuals surpass the designed capacity by three times, exacerbating the risk of disease outbreaks.

Building Financial Resilience: How Savings and Loan Associations are Changing Lives in Rural Malawi

Living in extreme poverty with limited access to financial services and basic amenities like electricity and plumbing, Chifundo's life changes when she participates in a meeting organized by the American organization Villages in Partnership (VIP).
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Climate Change in Nigeria: Should we address poverty and malnutrition, too?

by Oluwadara O. Alegbeleye In recent times, there has been an unhealthy, exaggerated, hypocritical emphasis on ‘climate change’ issues in Nigeria. The federal ministry of health...

Child Soldiers of the 21st Century: What Can be Done About Them?

After armed groups in South Sudan recently released over 200 child soldiers, now is the ideal time to explore why more needs to be done to prevent children's lives being corrupted by violence.

The Hadza of Tanzania: Inside Story of 21st Century Hunter-Gatherers

By Tony Spence

The Hadza people are now at a crossroads, facing serious issues regarding their future as it becomes harder to secure food and resources. A romanticised appeal of a hunter-gatherer existence does not mask their true struggle

Malnutrition and Empty International Promises

By Olufunmilayo Akande Today, 16,000 children worldwide die each day before celebrating their fifth birthday as a result of preventable causes linked to malnutrition.

Child Mining in Tanzania: A Forgotten Story

By Tony Spence

Children are often attracted to mining due to a lack of regulation and the promise of easy money. As a result, thousands of children in Tanzania work in difficult and dangerous conditions for little money in which their education, safety and wellbeing is compromised.

Distant Voices: Design and Development from an Alternative Perspective

By Carl Harrison

For the first time this book asks pertinent questions, about the nature of product in its non-western context, the social, cultural, political and economic reasons why many producers within the developing world appear to be unwilling or unable to forge creative directions of their own.

Tortured, Killed and Chained: International Trade & Tourism May Cause Extinction of Elephants Within Years

By Jameela Freitas

The total number of elephants is rapidly decreasing globally as elephants are continued to be poached for ivory, and tortured and killed for tourism and entertainment.

Technology Camp For Young Girls In Rwanda

Created by Peace Corps Volunteers in 2013, TechKobwa brings together Rwandan ICT professionals and expert trainers from IBM and Michigan State University to conduct lessons in computer science, electronics, and other STEM-related topics.

A Soul-Searching Moment for African Youths

By Nantale Sanyu Sarah

For a country to develop, it ought to be as a whole not as mere individuals, family lines and tribes.

Street Games Soothe Woes of Zimbabwe´s Jobless Youths

By Ray Mwareya

Zimbabwe's idle youths, bending under a reality of 80% joblessness, and an economy stuffed by $9, 9 billion in external debt, are now hooked to playing or owning a “snooker” table.

The 7 Misconceptions About Refugees & Refugee Camps

By Irungu Peter

People often tend to think that refugees are fully fed by the WFP, clothed by the UNHCR and other humanitarian agencies. This is far from the reality on the ground.

The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis: The Option Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

By Oboshi Agyeno

As EU is pushing hard to rectify the loopholes that caused the tragic and avoidable deaths of thousands of migrants in its territorial waters in 2015 alone, attention should also be focused on domestic conditions in Africa that encourage and sustain such perilous journey.