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Black market weight-loss drug sellers are moving fast. SA’s regulators are struggling to keep up
As the demand for weight-loss injections surges, compounded copycats and unlicensed drugs like retatrutide are flooding South Africa's market. Regulators are racing to introduce…
Ebola is back. So are the double standards
Just four years after COVID-19, the US is demanding an Ebola quarantine camp in Kenya, while Western countries impose travel bans on African nations. This article explores the…
Ethiopia’s plan to produce PhDs
Could a country that has produced fewer than 100 PhDs in the past 50 years turn into a research powerhouse in a decade?
Can science save Africa?
It’s the kind of story researchers love to tell people who question the usefulness of what they do: between 1975 and 1988 William Proxmire, a United States senator, gave out…
Learning to live with unrest
As the October rains finally rolled in over Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, last week, storm clouds of a different kind were gathering over the country’s universities. Learning ground…