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  • A truck carries people from South Sudan towards the border of West Nile region, Uganda. Credit: UNHCR / F. Noy.
    SocietyTop storyUganda

    Borders areas should be used, not feared, in pandemic responses

    By Innocent Anguyo & Elizabeth Storer
    October 13, 2022
    Uganda’s experience shows how communities near borders come up with effective strategies for disease control, while resisting disruptive state ones. As Uganda continues to ...
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  • Mary Phiri prepares a maize porridge, known locally as nshima, at her home in Rufunsa, Zambia, on July 18, 2022. It is her only meal of the day before she takes her antiretroviral medication for HIV. Credit: Prudence Phiri/GPJ.
    GPJSocietyZambia

    Medicine helps their HIV. Hunger makes it hard to take

    By Prudence Phiri
    September 27, 2022
    Poor harvests and pandemic-related hardships mean many Zambians living with HIV aren’t getting proper nutrition, putting them at even greater risk. Mary Phiri walks ...
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  • Reproductive and sexual health. At a market in Mombasa, Kenya. Credit: Ninara
    KenyaSocietyTop story

    Kenya: The new government’s chance to secure reproductive rights

    By Stephanie Musho
    September 7, 2022
    Kenya’s sexual health rights are beholden to US decisionmakers. New legislators must take back control. For too long, sexual and reproductive rights in Kenya ...
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  • Michelle Maisvoreva says she has struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder and has attempted to take her own life several times. Credit: Linda Mujuru/Global Press Journal.
    GPJSocietyZimbabwe

    Zimbabwe struggles to provide mental health support amid rising demand

    By Linda Mujuru
    August 17, 2022
    As people abandon traditional beliefs, more are seeking mental health services, overwhelming an already underfunded and understaffed system. When Michelle Maisvoreva was an adolescent, ...
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  • The concerning moment in the Buga music video.
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    Dance to Buga, but please don’t do this

    By Ifeanyi M. Nsofor & Adekemi Adeniyan
    July 29, 2022
    Opening a bottle with your teeth could end up being painful, disfiguring, and expensive. Buga by Kizz Daniel and Tekno has everyone dancing globally. ...
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  • Kakule Sivyaghendera, who has been a primary school teacher for nine years, teaches in Lubero territory, North Kivu, DR Congo. He has never been paid a salary. Credit: Merveille Kavira Luneghe/GPJ.
    Congo-KinshasaGPJSociety

    “I have to work in a field”: 300,000 teachers in DRC going unpaid

    By Merveille Kavira Luneghe
    July 22, 2022
    Since primary education was made free in 2019, there has been a steep rise in both numbers of students and teachers working for nothing. ...
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  • Fake news spreads quickly and easily from online to offline environments. Credit: KC Nwakalor for USAID/Digital Development Communications.
    SocietyTop storyWest

    If blackouts don’t work, what might? Tackling fake news in West Africa

    By Idayat Hassan & Jamie Hitchen
    July 19, 2022
    Disinformation is on the rise, and social media companies, governments, and fact-checking groups are all struggling to keep up. Fake news may spread through ...
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  • Eritreans Biniam Girmay wins the Gent-Wevelgem men's elite race in March 2022, becoming the race's first African winner.
    CultureEditor's PicksEritreaSociety

    Why are there no Black riders in the Tour de France?

    By Georgia Cole & Temesgen Futsumbrhan Gebrehiwet
    July 13, 2022
    The answer is not a lack of talent, as Eritrea’s long history of producing worldclass cyclists attests. On the 17 May, Eritrea made headlines ...
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  • SocietyZimbabwe

    “Too much propaganda”: Zimbabwe’s pirates of the airwaves look to SA

    By Derick Matsengarwodzi
    June 28, 2022
    The state-owned ZBC no longer has a monopoly, but that doesn’t mean free-to-air TV in Zimbabwe is any more diverse or varied. For the last ...
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  • Evangelista Kanohili sits outside her home in Sheema, Uganda, March 15, 2022. Kanohili has been experiencing on-and-off infestations of jiggers, a small parasitic flea that burrows into the skin and can make it too painful to take care of daily tasks. Credit: Apophia Agiresaasi/Global Press Journal.
    GPJSocietyUganda

    Uganda: The tiny flea making it painful for people to walk and work

    By Apophia Agiresaasi
    June 24, 2022
    Authorities in western Uganda are battling an outbreak of jiggers that has hit several rural villages. Evangelista Kanohili sits on a mat on the ...
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