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Every Child Every Right

Every Child Every Right

November 20th marks the anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. Today marks 34 years since this groundbreaking milestone convention.
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Including Traditional Crops in the African Research Agenda for Sustainable Food Systems

Including Traditional Crops in the African Research Agenda for Sustainable Food Systems

Research by Dr Sussy Munialo, postdoctoral fellow within the ARUA Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems (ARUA-SFS) – hosted by Future Africa, sought to understand if including traditional crops such as finger millet, amaranth, nightshade, yam, sweet potatoes, Marama bean, and soybean in the African research agenda can improve the nutritional profile and benefits of our diets.
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Youth-Led Movement That Transcends Borders

Youth-Led Movement That Transcends Borders

The Africa Youth Day is celebrated on the first of November annually since it was proclaimed when the African Union adopted the African Youth Charter during the Banjul Summit 2006. The theme of this year, 2023, is: “1 million Next Level is knocking: Youth-led Movement that Transcends Borders.” This day was set aside annually to promote the increased recognition of youth as critical agents for...
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Professor Wanda Markotter reappointed as Future Africa One Health Research Chair

Professor Wanda Markotter has been reappointed as Future Africa’s One Health Research Chair for a second five-year term, strengthening transdisciplinary research, African collaboration and leadership in One Health across the continent.

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World Youth Skills Day: Empowering School Learners through STEM Education

Future Africa's Research Chair on Health, People, and Places has launched a STEM skills programme for school learners. The programme offers practical and theoretical science activities, and career exposure opportunities, aimed at investing in the next generation of African scientists.
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Prestigious Banda-Africa fellowship awarded to FAR-LeaF fellow Dr Amankwaa

The University of Ghana has awarded Dr Ebenezer Amankwaa a Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa project (BANGA-AFRICA). He is an urban geographer and lecturer at the university's Department of Geography and Resource Development.
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Open Science and its Relevance

Open Science and its Relevance in the African Context

In a recent interview on Business Talk, Dr Heide Hackmann, Director of Future Africa, shed light on the significance of open science and its potential to catalyse transformative innovation and collaboration in Africa.
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FAR-LeaF presents session at Sri Panama

Four representatives from the University of Pretoria’s Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship Programme (FAR-LeaF) will present a session at the Sustainability Research & Innovation (SRI) Congress conference hosted in Panama.
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Ensuring mental well-being through transdisciplinary research

Health is more than the absence of illness or disease; it encompasses a holistic state of physical, mental, and social well-being. One must achieve complete well-being, not just a lack of sickness, to be healthy. Similarly, mental health is defined as a state of wellness in which individuals can utilise their abilities effectively, manage everyday stressors, perform well at work, contribute to soc...
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Professor Dire Tladi nominated to serve as a judge at the International Court of Justice

The Future Africa Institute at the University of Pretoria is pleased to announce and extend its congratulations to Dire Tladi, Professor of International Law and Future Africa's Research Chair of Global Equity in Africa, on his nomination as South Africa's candidate to serve as a judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), commonly known as the World Court.
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WEB_SRIFAR-LeaF’s team who physically attended the SRI2023 Africa satellite event in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth). From left are FAR-LeaF program director Prof Stephanie Burton, Drs Vincent Pagiwa, Brighton Chunga, Ebenezer Amankwaa and Samson Mhiza

FAR-LeaF health cluster impress at Sri 2023 Africa satellite event

Eight fellows of the Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship programme (FAR-LeaF) of the University of Pretoria presented their research at this week's prestigious SRI2023 Africa satellite event.
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FAR-LeaF fellow presents at ACSUS-UP virtual conference

FAR-LeaF fellow Dr Hauwa Mohammed Sani of the Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria participated in a panel discussion and presented a paper at a virtual conference presented by the African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of Pretoria (ACSUS-UP) in June.
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The rights of the child in the digital environment

Children must use the digital environment to afford crucial opportunities for their voices to be heard in matters that affect them. Digital technologies can help them realise the child’s participation locally, nationally, and internationally.
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Child labour in Africa

Child labour in Africa: Call to action

World Day Against Child Labour is an International Labour Organization-sanctioned holiday launched in 2002, aiming to raise awareness and activism to prevent child labour. Celebrating this day helps create awareness about child labour's educational, mental, economic, socio-emotional, and physical hazards.
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plateforme-collaborativeThe UP and University of Montpellier team at the launch of the Global Collaborative PhD Platform during Africa Week 2023

UP and Montpellier University launch collaborative PhD platform to establish global community of sustainability scientists

In support of efforts to feed, care, and protect people and the planet, the University of Pretoria (UP) has joined forces with France’s University of Montpellier (UM) to lead the establishment of the Feed, Protect, Care Global Collaborative PhD Platform. The platform, which was launched at UP’s Future Africa Institute as part of Africa Week celebrations, will be implemented in partnership with...
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RESEARCH | Community Participation in Water and Sanitation Service Delivery

Water and sanitation access is recognised to be essential for the development of the South African economy. Despite the taunted benefits associated with public participation in the water and sanitation sector
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