Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases in the world and 40% of the world population is exposed to malaria. Despite the current control strategies such as rapid diagnosis and treatment of disease cases, use of insecticide impregnated materials and indoor residuals spraying with insecti...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the press written almost two centuries of history. For a long time hampered by low literacy, however, its development was rapid in English-speaking Africa, where it played a role in decolonisation. Both as a cause and as a result of the aspirations for change, the African pres...

Despite numerous investments that have been made to increase access to education in sub-Saharan Africa, a noteworthy share of children drop out of school prior to completing primary education. To address this issue, this thesis examines the factors that drive education decisions in a rural risky env...

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I had the chance, during my training in African history, to be Jean Boulègue’s pupil. First in DEUG, when he taught the history of Africa prior to the 19th century, in the form of judicial classes; then bachelor, where he spent a full semester of amphitheatre courses and focused work on Islam in sub...

The states of French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa, richly endowed with minerals, have achieved independence with a major handicap of underdevelopment, characterized by the rupture of the social contract. These states and their new leaders have, quite logically, put mining investments at the center of...

For network fragmentation, reforms, focusing on economic efficiency and performance, have aggravated socio-spatial inequalities and weakened urban cohesion. Dedicated to water services, this book shows that current developments are also likely to unblock underequipments and improve access, particula...

Organised with the collaboration of: — l’INRETS (France), — LET (France), — IRD (Senegal), MIET (Senegal) Financial support: French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The issue of the contribution of transport to the fight against poverty was one of the cornerstones of the conclusion of the SITRASS 6 semi...

This article aims to illustrate the links between daily mobility and spatial segregation processes in sub-Saharan Africa cities. In a general context of population growth, urban sprawl and persistent poverty in both households and public actors in Dar es Salaam, Dakar, as in other major African citi...

Vient de paraître : Autobiographik in Afrika - Literaturgeschichte und Genrevielfalt Susanne Gehrmann ISBN 978-3-86821-925-8, 231 S., € 32,50 (2021) LuKA - Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas, vol. 14 Cette monographie combine l’histoire littéraire des narrations autobiographiques en Afrique subsaharienne...

Demo-economic transitions in sub-Saharan Africa have led to an unprecedented increase in population, calling into question the capacity of current economic structures to ensure people’s livelihoods, as well as the reproduction of these livelihoods that allows societies to endure over time. In a glob...

The present reflection on the framework of intervention of UNO in the field as of human rights, in French-speaking sub-Saharan, pursues two principal goals. The primary goal aims at showing that the United Nations Organization is very committed on the ground of the human rights, in the countries of...

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Rwanda has embarked on an ambitious policy package to modernise and professionalise the agrarian and land sector. Its reform fits into a broader call – supported by major international donors – to implement a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa. After 10 years of implementation, there is increase...

Introduction: Reproductive health is still an important global health challenge. This situation is exacerbated among the population with disabilities who suffer from various barriers to access and discrimination, which are still scarcely understood. To contribute to future interventions, we examined...

If capitals in French-speaking Africa, as elsewhere, are the place for a relative concentration of wealth, the fact remains that a large proportion of the population has low incomes and shows difficulties in ensuring the high cost of mobility. Travel difficulties are exacerbated by rapid urban growt...

This article intends to establish a close link between the former pupils of the Ecole Nationale de la France d’Outre-Mer (ENFOM) and the Franco-African cooperation policy from the establishment of the French Union to the abolition of a Ministry of Autonomous Cooperation. The idea of cooperation is p...

International audience In the past decades, most of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have been affected by armed conflicts. By means of a time-series cross-sectional (TSCS) database, we attempt to measure the impact of war on a sample of 43 countries in Africa from 1950 to 2010. These conflicts,...

Droz Bernard. Migani Guia, France and Sub-Saharan Africa, 1957-1963, Brussels, Peter Lang, 2008. In: Overseas, Volume 101, No 384-385,2014. Cooperating and cooperating in Africa: circulations of actors and cultural recompostitions (from the 1950s to the present) p. 375.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) cooperation with Sub-Saharan Africa takes place in a context where the costs and implementation processes of telematics network integration projects exceed local financial and technical capacities and require both external intervention and African parti...

Page 7 to 10 Public Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Introduction Arnaud Bourgain, Jean-Claude Vérez Page 11 to 28 Fertiliser subsidy policies in Burkina Faso: a comparison of impacts by method of financing using a calculable general equilibrium model Boureima Sawadogo, Hélène Maisonnave Page 29 to 5...

The cities in sub-Saharan Africa are characterised by a diversification of urban cooperation with the involvement of multiple foreign donors and a strong growth in urban expertise markets. Between 2018 and 2019, USD 148 million from abroad were invested in the urban development of the Kenyan capital...

Over the past 40 years, growth of renewable energies benefited of the new world energy frame, which resulted of the questioning about what development of human societies had to be. Furthermore, although human development comes with electricity, the rural condition of many populations of Sub-Saharan...

'pbl The Academy of Sciences has just conducted a study on the national research effort with and for French-speaking countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This book, without forgetting to recall the overall socio-economic and humanitarian context of this region of the African continent, and the Millenniu...