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Cambridge researchers have long worked with African colleagues on issues that matter not just to the continent but to the world.

Greengrocer at Arusha Market

Of cabbages and cows: increasing agricultural yields in Africa

13 Feb 2017

Africa鈥檚 food requirements, along with its population, are growing fast. Three research programmes ask how a better understanding of viruses...

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Dar Es Salaam

A sewage system that 鈥榙igests鈥 and 鈥榗ooks鈥 human waste

10 Feb 2017

Student volunteers Susannah Duck and Izhan Khan describe working with a Tanzanian community to install a system that turns sewage into essential...

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Kony 2012

探花直播Bible as a weapon of war

08 Feb 2017

How do former Lord鈥檚 Resistance Army soldiers 鈥 men, women and children who have used the Bible as a weapon of war 鈥 learn to reread the scriptures...

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Akosombo Dam, Ghana

Keeping the lights on in Ghana

07 Feb 2017

When Ghanaian Abu Yaya wondered why his country imports all of its electroporcelain 鈥 a small but crucial component for electrical power transmission...

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Dr Vincent Owino, now conducting research in Kenya, was awarded a seed grant from the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund

Cambridge-Africa Programme: 58 institutions, 26 countries, and growing

06 Feb 2017

We ask how a 'matchmaking' programme that teams up Cambridge and African researchers is making expertise and resources available to support Africans...

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Check-up at MRC Unit  探花直播Gambia

' 探花直播Iron Lady' and the paradox of treating anaemia

03 Feb 2017

Iron deficiency can be fatal. But in countries where patients are also likely to have other serious diseases, so too can the iron supplements used to...

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Vumilia walks 10 km to school

鈥淎 girl without education is nothing in the world鈥

02 Feb 2017

Half the children in Africa miss out on school and basic learning as a result of poverty, gender or disability. While major efforts are being made to...

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Cambridge-Africa postdoctoral researchers

Cambridge and Africa

01 Feb 2017

Cambridge is one of the world鈥檚 leading universities in its engagement with, and support for, African research. This month we begin a month-long...

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Opinion: Mozambique's unexpected truce still hangs in the balance

20 Jan 2017

After four years of escalating civil conflict, a truce has unexpectedly arisen in Mozambique. But what are the chances of this ceasefire lasting...

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Ian Goodfellow

Call of duty: fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone

13 Jan 2017

Working in a lab as a basic scientist can often seem far removed from the real world. A year since the World Health Organization declared the Ebola...

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Sierra Leonean Junior Doctor, Marina Kamara, follows up on a suspected kidney infection.

IMF lending conditions curb healthcare investment in West Africa, study finds

11 Jan 2017

Research shows budget reduction targets and public sector caps, insisted on by the IMF as loan conditions, result in reduced health spending and...

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A male savannah elephant uses his trunk to eat inTarangire National Park, Tanzania.

Elephant poaching costs African economies US $25 million per year in lost tourism revenue

01 Nov 2016

New research shows investing in elephant conservation is smart economic policy for many African countries.

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