Anxiety over the deforestation of tropical ecosystems typically revolves around the Amazon rainforest, but a new study by Stanford University researchers finds sub-Saharan Africa is the new frontier ...
This paper studies the potential effects of geoeconomic fragmentation (GEF) in the sub-Saharan Africa region (SSA) through quantifying potential long-term economic costs. The paper considers two ...
Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Demographic Research Vol. 37, JULY - DECEMBER 2017 On the pace of fertility decline in sub-... On ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the epicentre of typhoid fever, a survey shows. According to the Severe Typhoid in Africa programme, which offers new typhoid fever burden estimates from ...
Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa don’t measure up to their plans according to new research into the projects by scientists. Many of the schemes were found to be consistently delivering a much ...
Corruption in land management hits the poorest people the hardest, creating situations that deny people's rights and damage livelihoods. Land is a vital resource that sustains livelihoods across ...
This report begins by laying out the dynamics of the youth employment challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa: The demographic transition, the role of mineral exports, the largely untapped reservoir of ...
A pest to ranchers, a prize to hunters, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam by the thousands in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape buffalo, one of four distinct ...
Christianity first arrived in North Africa, in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world. Legend has it that Christianity was ...
Unlike Portugal which was determined to hang on to its colonies, Britain had by the end of the war reckoned that running the Empire was more trouble than it was worth. At the same time African ...