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Future Africa at the University of Pretoria introduces 22 outstanding early-career researchers as the second cohort of the FAR-LeaF Fellowship. Supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the programme builds research leadership, collaboration and transdisciplinary skills to address Africa’s most complex sustainability challenges.

Lancet Countdown Africa, hosted at Future Africa at the University of Pretoria, has published a landmark health policy report detailing how climate change is intensifying economic losses, driving food and health insecurity, and slowing progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals across the continent.

Professor Wanda Markotter, Future Africa’s One Health Chair at UP, advances Africa’s role in global health governance through high-level engagements in Berlin and Geneva.

Future Africa has launched the African Political Ecologies Learning Lab, creating a space for African scholars to explore people–nature relations and strengthen locally grounded sustainability research. Interested researchers can contact