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LIFE & STYLE
Controlling her future: Why more women, girls are turning to birth control

Controlling her future: Why more women, girls are turning to birth control

Contraception helped avert more than 141 million unintended pregnancies, 29 million unsafe abortions and almost 150,000 maternal deaths last year alone as women in lower-middle income countries increasingly resorted to birth control to unlock their economic survival and prosperity.

CURRENT AFFAIRS
KAARIA: Africa has no shortage of talent, we cannot afford to outsource solutions

KAARIA: Africa has no shortage of talent, we cannot afford to outsource solutions

Dr Susan Kaaria, Director of African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) spoke to us broadly on the role of female researchers and why they are the hope for the continent.

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Nyiragongo: Citizen science could help better predict deadly eruptions

Nyiragongo: Citizen science could help better predict deadly eruptions

The eruption on May 22, 2021 caught the local and international scientific community by surprise as the only relevant activity known to staff at the Eastern Congo volcano observatory (OVG) in the months preceding the eruption was unusual occurrence of hybrid seismic events around Nyamulagira and Nyiragongo...