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10 years of This Week in Africa! open.substack.com/pub/thisweek...
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September 5, 2025
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Child mortality in Malawi has fallen by more than 80% since 1990
June 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Child mortality in Malawi has fallen by more than 80% since 1990
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Despite being preventable and treatable, malaria is the leading cause of child mortality in much of Sub-Saharan Africa—
In 2021, malaria was the leading cause of death among children under five in more than 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2021, malaria was the leading cause of death among children under five in more than 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
May 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Despite being preventable and treatable, malaria is the leading cause of child mortality in much of Sub-Saharan Africa—
In 2021, malaria was the leading cause of death among children under five in more than 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2021, malaria was the leading cause of death among children under five in more than 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Food insecurity fuels terrorism in Africa, creating a vicious cycle of hunger and conflict.
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Terrorists use food as a weapon: how Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab exploit hunger
Terror groups use food as a tool to fight, govern and survive.
theconversation.com
May 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Food insecurity fuels terrorism in Africa, creating a vicious cycle of hunger and conflict.
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May 9, 2025
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The Trump admin’s FY2026 budget proposes deep cuts to US dev. & humanitarian aid, reflecting a shift in global engagement.
@ecollinson.bsky.social & @justinrhurley.bsky.social highlight a key choice for Congress: endorse this retreat or pursue a more balanced approach ⬇️
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@ecollinson.bsky.social & @justinrhurley.bsky.social highlight a key choice for Congress: endorse this retreat or pursue a more balanced approach ⬇️
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Redefining America’s Interests? Trump’s FY2026 Budget Proposes Sweeping Cuts to US Foreign Aid
The Trump administration unveiled an overview of its FY2026 budget request on Friday. While short on details, the document offers a grim forecast for US development and humanitarian spending. In seeki...
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May 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Trump admin’s FY2026 budget proposes deep cuts to US dev. & humanitarian aid, reflecting a shift in global engagement.
@ecollinson.bsky.social & @justinrhurley.bsky.social highlight a key choice for Congress: endorse this retreat or pursue a more balanced approach ⬇️
bit.ly/3Z8LIRU
@ecollinson.bsky.social & @justinrhurley.bsky.social highlight a key choice for Congress: endorse this retreat or pursue a more balanced approach ⬇️
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Happy to share my inaugural series of capsule reviews for @foreignaffairs.com: www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/afri...
It’s an immense honor to be following in the footsteps of the late Nic van de Walle in this role.
It’s an immense honor to be following in the footsteps of the late Nic van de Walle in this role.
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
Badawi’s encyclopedic survey of African history is an important installment in the current wave of scholarship on the deep histories of African societies.
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April 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Happy to share my inaugural series of capsule reviews for @foreignaffairs.com: www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/afri...
It’s an immense honor to be following in the footsteps of the late Nic van de Walle in this role.
It’s an immense honor to be following in the footsteps of the late Nic van de Walle in this role.
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“If someone licked my heart, they’d be poisoned.”
The M23's takeover of territory in eastern DRC has killed thousands, displaced hundreds of thousands and also caused a huge mental health crisis.
Story by Prosper Heri Ngorora and Carlos Mureithi
The M23's takeover of territory in eastern DRC has killed thousands, displaced hundreds of thousands and also caused a huge mental health crisis.
Story by Prosper Heri Ngorora and Carlos Mureithi
‘I hope I’ll one day be at peace’: civilians seek mental health help in war-ravaged eastern DRC
People traumatised by conflict have queued outside the Saint Vincent de Paul neuropsychiatric hospital in Goma each day since free scheme launched
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April 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“If someone licked my heart, they’d be poisoned.”
The M23's takeover of territory in eastern DRC has killed thousands, displaced hundreds of thousands and also caused a huge mental health crisis.
Story by Prosper Heri Ngorora and Carlos Mureithi
The M23's takeover of territory in eastern DRC has killed thousands, displaced hundreds of thousands and also caused a huge mental health crisis.
Story by Prosper Heri Ngorora and Carlos Mureithi
This Week in Africa
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This Week in Africa
April 18, 2025
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This Week in Africa
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Check out our new article! Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods
Rapid urbanization is changing the way Africans experience and engage the state in their everyday lives, creating new opportunities for urban claim-ma…
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April 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Check out our new article! Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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This Week in Africa
April 11, 2025
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#Rwanda’s involvement in the #DRC has damaged the goodwill it used to enjoy from western powers.
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Rwanda’s image abroad: how western countries are beginning to turn their backs
Rwanda’s involvement in the DRC has damaged the goodwill it used to enjoy from western powers.
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April 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
#Rwanda’s involvement in the #DRC has damaged the goodwill it used to enjoy from western powers.
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Refugee camps in #Ethiopia need to be made more liveable. Creating wetlands to provide greenery, absorb flash floods and purify polluted water may help.
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#EnvironmentAndEnergy
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Africa’s refugee camps are plagued by flooding: we looked into drainage systems that can withstand local conditions
Refugee camps in Ethiopia need to be made more liveable. Creating wetlands to provide greenery, absorb flash floods and purify polluted water may help.
theconversation.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Refugee camps in #Ethiopia need to be made more liveable. Creating wetlands to provide greenery, absorb flash floods and purify polluted water may help.
theconversation.com/africas-refu...
#EnvironmentAndEnergy
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📉Commodies sold off following Trump’s tariffs & China’s retaliation (on expectations of slower world growth)
⚠️bad news for poorer econonomies dependent on commodity earnings.
👉🏼How to manage such shocks? See our new @unu-wider.bsky.social book (open access) www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...
⚠️bad news for poorer econonomies dependent on commodity earnings.
👉🏼How to manage such shocks? See our new @unu-wider.bsky.social book (open access) www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...
UNU-WIDER : Book : Resources Matter
Almost everything that is essential to modern society—transport and power systems, buildings, machinery, and medical devices—depends upon metals, minerals, and stone as well as oil and natural gas whi...
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April 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
📉Commodies sold off following Trump’s tariffs & China’s retaliation (on expectations of slower world growth)
⚠️bad news for poorer econonomies dependent on commodity earnings.
👉🏼How to manage such shocks? See our new @unu-wider.bsky.social book (open access) www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...
⚠️bad news for poorer econonomies dependent on commodity earnings.
👉🏼How to manage such shocks? See our new @unu-wider.bsky.social book (open access) www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...
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African States
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April 4, 2025
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With #USAID contractors shuttered, staff terminated, and the agency’s financial system largely non-operational, @charlesjkenny.bsky.social urges that action from Congress is needed to ensure that already appropriated funds are responsibly spent.
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The USAID Shutdown: Where Next?
The State Department is floating foreign assistance reorganization proposals. While there is surely a lot that could be done to make US foreign assistance more effective, I hope Congress focuses on…
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March 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
With #USAID contractors shuttered, staff terminated, and the agency’s financial system largely non-operational, @charlesjkenny.bsky.social urges that action from Congress is needed to ensure that already appropriated funds are responsibly spent.
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This Week in Africa
March 21, 2025
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Check out my new review essay "Building the City from Below: Toward a Citizen-Centered City-Making": www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Building the City from Below: Toward a Citizen-Centered City-Making | African Studies Review | Cambridge Core
Building the City from Below: Toward a Citizen-Centered City-Making
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March 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Check out my new review essay "Building the City from Below: Toward a Citizen-Centered City-Making": www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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This week's links include how having a fast train to take you long distances makes you more likely to buy an EV, do Ethiopians prefer better housing in the outskirts or a central slum, DiD with weights, and more...
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Weekly links March 21: Ethiopian housing, Chinese rail, DiD, an online course, and more…
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March 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This week's links include how having a fast train to take you long distances makes you more likely to buy an EV, do Ethiopians prefer better housing in the outskirts or a central slum, DiD with weights, and more...
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Four years and one civil war later...
Ethiopia has reached an Agreement in Principle with its Official Creditor Committee to restructure $8.4 billion of public debt under the G20 Common Framework, according to the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance. Source: lnkd.in/gFNbWDTb
March 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Four years and one civil war later...