Illegal fishing increases food and economic insecurities in Nigeria.
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Nigeria must address illegal fishing, which depletes the country’s fish stocks, undermines livelihoods and pushes people into poverty.
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Research has shown that vaccines have reduced infections, disease and hospitalisations – but will they continue to do so in the face of new variants?
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Lost revenue is money that could be spent on lifting people out of poverty.
Women make smoked fishes - locally called Okporoko - at Egede informal settlement in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
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The contributions that women in West Africa’s fisheries make to the sector are widely un(der)paid, undervalued and largely invisible.
Virginia Woolf listened to a wide variety of music, including Russian ballet music which she heard when the Ballets Russes visited London in 1912.
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Woolf thought of her books as music before she wrote them so it is unsurprising that her writing influenced the work of composers.
Resistance to the military coup is hardening in Myanmar.
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Beijing is shaping as an important player in the international effort to resolve the political situation in Myanmar.
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his second pandemic budget for the Conservatives.
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This discovery will shape the hunt for life on exoplanets.
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COVID-19 has highlighted the need to address the different cultures of academia and policymaking.
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The costs that fossil fuels impose on public health through air pollution alone are enormous.
Whale sharks are the ocean’s biggest fish.
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This is the first study to link human activity with a change in whale sharks’ life stages.
There are several building blocks towards reducing menstruation stigma.
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The building blocks towards reducing stigma go far beyond providing period products
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El nivel máximo de transmisión se da en los cinco primeros días que siguen al comienzo de los síntomas. Una persona con Covid-19 debería confinarse tan pronto como empiece a manifestar los síntomas, sin esperar a los resultados de la prueba.
On the outskirts of Accra there are huge electronic waste disposal sites, known locally as Sodoma and Gomorra.
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Despite knowing how harmful it can be, companies and businesses (primarily those in Europe and the US) target countries in the Gulf of Guinea as a dump for their toxic waste.
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Here’s why we could reduce the period for self-isolation.
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A new laser technique that measures the chemical make-up of whisky may help fight cancers.
Supporters of Kyrkyzstan’s new president Sadyr Japarov take to the streets to celebrate the ousting of former leader Sooronbay Jeenbekov.
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Struggling to handle a pandemic and general economic crisis, Kyrgyzstan has just seen its president ousted by an ex-convict as Russia and China watch from the sidelines.
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Slave traders transformed human lives into profit-bearing opportunities – just like modern finance.
Engraving from John Chardin’s Travels into Persia and the East Indies, 1686, showing Mount Ararat, Turkey.
Before reaching summits became part of the new ‘sublime’ in the late 18th century, people didn’t climb mountains.
Residents of Lamu, Kenya, accuse the government of ignoring their concerns and going ahead with the construction of a huge port.
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Africa’s blue economy initiatives focused on economic outcomes. Limited attention was given to social equity and ecological sustainability.