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Cambridge researchers have long worked with African colleagues on issues that matter not just to the continent but to the world.

International Criminal Court, The Hague

Opinion: The ICC can’t live with Africa, but it can’t live without it either

15 Mar 2017

The International Criminal Court’s focus on African states has led to pushback from the continent, yet intervening anywhere else looks increasingly...

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CGLI members visit the exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Museum archive reconnects a London-based Congolese community with its heritage

10 Mar 2017

When Reverend Kenred Smith captured moments of life in the Congo over 120 years ago, he couldn’t have imagined that the photos – now in Cambridge's...

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Alexander Crummell 1866

Celebrating Black Cantabs

03 Mar 2017

The Black Cantabs Research Society has just launched a new platform which will help further its aims of connecting early Black alumni from the...

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Meeting local needs: how the Fens can learn from research in Africa

03 Mar 2017

Dr Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi is used to working in resource-poor settings. She spent over a decade on the frontline fighting HIV and AIDS in Uganda...

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Members of the project at the end of the 2012 season

The Monuments Men of Libya

28 Feb 2017

With Daesh militia at their heels, a handful of brave Libyan archaeologists completed the excavation of the Haua Fteah cave in Cyrenaica, North...

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Opinion: How years of IMF prescriptions have hurt West African health systems

22 Feb 2017

International Monetary Fund policies can have a real impact on people – and don’t always yield positive results. Writing for The Conversation, Thomas...

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Molecular Lab Techniques Training

Carol Ibe: Making training for African researchers affordable

22 Feb 2017

Do you have to choose between an academic career and activism? Gates Cambridge Scholar Carol Ibe is one of an increasing number of students are...

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Taskeen Adam and Richmond Juvenile Ehwi

Multiplier effect: the African PhD students who will grow African research

21 Feb 2017

Taskeen Adam and Richmond Juvenile Ehwi are part of a PhD programme that’s enrolling five African students per year for five years, to help train...

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Sharpening our knowledge of prehistory on East Africa’s bone harpoons

20 Feb 2017

A project exploring the role of East Africa in the evolution of modern humans has amassed the largest and most diverse collection of prehistoric bone...

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Suffering from pre-eclampsia, this young mother had to undergo a Caesarean to deliver her twin boys, seen here in the arms of her mother (Malawi)

Under pressure: the battle to have a baby in Africa

16 Feb 2017

A complication of pregnancy that causes the mother’s blood pressure to rise – often fatally – is more common in women of African descent than any...

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Kathryn Savage (Alumna)

Graduate, get a job … make a difference #6

16 Feb 2017

Cambridge graduates enter a wide range of careers but making a difference tops their career wish lists. In this series, inspiring graduates from the...

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United Nations Operation in Burundi (crop)

When ideas of peace meet politics of conflict

15 Feb 2017

Research by an expert in peacebuilding shows how international ideas, practices and language of conflict resolution are transformed when they meet...

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