With the recent ratification of the pandemic treaty, our study offers a timely and distinctive contribution to pandemic response literature by analyzing China’s COVID-19 aid in the context of its expanding development assistance portfolio in Africa [22, 23 …

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Twenty years ago, the Guardian featured 10 newborn babies in countries across Africa, describing their births, their families and the environments they had been born into. We followed these babies at five-year intervals up to 2015 – the date the United …

Statement by Esperance Luvindao, minister of health and social services, at the National Assembly, Windhoek – 21 October 2025. I rise to address the assembly regarding the recent outbreak of mpox in Namibia. On 18 October 2025, the Ministry of Health and …

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B-Metro Awareness Desk A FORTY year sentence. That’s the punishment for the Filabusi man who raped his 10-year-old orphaned relative in the name of “curing” HIV. It’s a strong message that Zimbabwe’s courts will not tolerate monsters who prey on children. …

Editor's Note: This story is part of a three-part series on menopause, incarceration, and the climate crisis as a collaboration with the authors of The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause.  What many outside carceral systems fail to consider …

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