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After influenza and coronavirus, will obesity be the next pandemic?

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In Pakistan, a community descended from East Africans is still fighting prejudice

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· May 29, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Lockdown reading: Eight novels from Africa offer reflections on disease, death and isolation

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· May 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Washing hands is key to containing coronavirus – but 2.2 billion people lack access to clean water

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Coronavirus: Portable wash basins in Rwanda ensure bus passengers wash hands before boarding

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· Mar 12, 2020 · 08:55 am

Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an unidentified ghost species

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· Dec 25, 2019 · 11:33 am

Sounds of resistance: How the radio fuelled the revolution in colonial Angola

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· Dec 05, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Writers’ groups in Africa are disrupting the system and reshaping the region’s literary canon

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· Dec 04, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Liberation hero or monster? Robert Mugabe is as divisive in death as he was in life

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· Sep 06, 2019 · 08:30 pm

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· Sep 05, 2019 · 02:07 pm

Human trafficking through football: Search for the next star is leading to modern-day slave trade

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· Aug 13, 2019 · 03:45 pm

A gentrified Addis Ababa has no place for street hustlers – the same people who helped build it

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