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Today we're putting Africa in the spotlight, featuring the past week's news and analysis from the continent. In an expose on African politicians who travel abroad to access higher-quality medical care, Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong argues that public officials must improve Africa's weak health systems, not avoid them.
Plus, our authors look at why domestic violence can be more dangerous for women than war and how Sierra Leone is coping with disaster. Find those stories and more expert commentary this weekend on The Conversation Global.
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is one of many African leaders to have gone abroad for medical treatment.
Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde
Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, University of Bath
Health care systems in many African countries are very poor. Instead of fixing them, many African leaders seek medical attention abroad incurring huge bills which are ultimately paid by taxpayers.
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Arts + Culture
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Jeff Good, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
To understand the full scale of the world's linguistic diversity, we should be thinking about languages and how speakers relate to them.
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Health + Medicine
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Festus Njuguna, Moi University
Most children who have cancer live in the developing world where their survival rate is less than 25%. In Kenya awareness about childhood cancer is low and treatment isn't always readily available.
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Politics + Society
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David Winter, University of Hertfordshire
Mass graves are being dug for hundreds of those killed in a nation once more gripped by grief.
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Elisabet le Roux, Stellenbosch University
Shocking new findings show that even in conflict-affected countries where soldiers and rebel fighters are a daily danger to women, their husbands and boyfriends are the bigger threat.
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