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Vaccination rates are falling in Africa, but a new strategy aims to turn things around. Five things it needs to get right

Charles Shey Wiysonge, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council

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Morocco’s deadly wall across Western Sahara: why the 2,700km Berm was built and the damage it does

Joana Castro Pereira, Universidade do Porto and Simón Pardo de Donlebún Versaci, Universidade do Porto

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Street names carry stories with them. What they tell us about Gauteng in South Africa

Yolandi Burger, Gauteng City-Region Observatory

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South Africa’s green building upgrades are rising – but major cities still dominate, study finds

Jonathan Oladeji, University of Johannesburg and Chioma Okoro, University of Johannesburg

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Jabulani Sikhakhane, The Conversation

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Climate change is fuelling African conflict – governments are developing a shared response

Katongo Seyuba, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and Gracsious Maviza, CGIAR

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Ethiopia’s armed opposition unites against Abiy Ahmed: 5 reads on the country’s political struggles

Julius Maina, The Conversation and Kagure Gacheche, The Conversation

South Africa’s minibus taxi industry has lessons for policymakers on how informal systems work

Siyabulela Christopher Fobosi, University of Fort Hare

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A decade on, Somalia’s federal pact benefits elites and al-Shabaab – but it fails the people

Nisar Majid, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Young South Africans move for work and opportunity. What happens to their health when they do?

Carren Ginsburg, University of the Witwatersrand; Chantel Pheiffer, UMass Boston; Mark A. Collinson, University of the Witwatersrand, and Michael White, Brown University

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King Sunny Adé at 80: six decades of Nigerian musical innovation, global acclaim and cultural preservation

Damilola Peter Olatade, Lagos State University

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Demolishing Lagos informal settlements also destroys the city’s best defences against climate change

Brianna Castro, Yale University

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Teenage girls may know how to prevent pregnancy – that doesn’t mean they have the power to do it

Deevia Bhana, University of KwaZulu-Natal

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Africa’s Red Sea states face growing risks as Houthi rebels expand their reach

Burak Şakir Şeker, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University

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Tonnes of fishing gear and plastic are washing up on Seychelles beaches. We tracked where it was coming from

Alex Albinski, University of Oxford and Noam Vogt-Vincent, University of Oxford

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Academics in South Africa have to focus on ‘outputs’: what’s lost when other work’s not counted

Curwyn Mapaling, University of Johannesburg and Nokulunga Shabalala, University of Johannesburg

Brown is beautiful: what Namibia’s capital Windhoek can teach African cities as they get hotter and drier

Gaby Hansen, Namibia University of Science and Technology and Christina Breed, University of Pretoria

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