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Symptomless banana suckers sourced from Xanthomonas wilt infected fields are a viable alternative for seed within infected banana-based landscapes lacking access to clean planting materials [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Xanthomonas wilt (XW) caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum (Xcm) is an important constraint to banana production in East and Central Africa. The use of clean planting materials (CPM) for establishing new fields/ re-planting rouged fields/mats ...
Bahati, L.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
wiley   +1 more source

Comprendre la dynamique de la vulnérabilité à l’insécurité alimentaire au Sud-Kivu

open access: yesVertigO, 2013
This chapter shows that the majority of rural households in the South-Kivu live in chronic food insecurity. This situation is bound to key factor as well as, poor physical and environmental conditions, inaccessibility to agricultural funding, lack of ...
Célestin Bucekuderhwa, Sylvain Mapatano
doaj   +1 more source

War as exit from exclusion?: the formation of Mayi-Mayi militias in Eastern Congo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
In eastern Congo scores of young and marginalized people have been increasingly attracted to the mobilising efforts of new local actors. The inquiry into this phenomenon traces the emergence of the first militias to the end of the eighties.
F. Van Acker, K. Vlassenroot
core   +2 more sources

Mpox Outbreak in the East Africa Region: Current Status, Containment Measures, Challenges, and Future Direction

open access: yesPublic Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2026.
The WHO declares the Mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, with the DRC as the epicenter in the EAC. DRC, Uganda, and Burundi experience extensive transmission; Kenya and Uganda show higher case fatality rates. Containment measures include surveillance, public awareness, infection prevention training, and vaccination (>73 ...
Reuben Sindayiheba   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geographical Distribution and Socio‐Economic Importance of Raphia ruwenzorica From South‐West of Burundi

open access: yesPlant-Environment Interactions, Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT The genus Raphia is among the commonly used and socio‐economically important plants in Africa. While Raphia ruwenzorica species is known to occur in Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda, its geographical distribution and socioeconomic importance are poorly documented in Burundi. This study maps R.
Jacques Nkengurutse   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

'It's not all about the land': land disputes and conflict in the eastern Congo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Key points • Current interventions in land conflicts are focused on conflict management rather than conflict resolution. • Land conflicts are part of a wider governance problem and need political rather than technical approaches.
Mathys, Gillian, Vlassenroot, Koen
core  

Characterization of Crustal Deformation During the May 2021 Nyiragongo Eruption Using InSAR and GNSS Data

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 1, 16 January 2026.
Abstract We analyze Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data to characterize ground deformation and dike opening associated with the May 2021 Nyiragongo eruption. Despite documented eruptions in 1977 and 2002, Nyiragongo's magmatic system and its interaction with regional rifting remain poorly ...
D. Murekezi   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contribution of Internationalisation to SME Growth: Evidence from the Kenyan Manufacturing Sector

open access: yesEconomics and Business, 2020
Sub-Saharan African countries are among the poorest countries in the world and there is a need to develop their economies. Researchers suggest the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to foster economic development in countries ...
Safari Kulondwa
doaj   +1 more source

Prostate volume and its relationship with anthropometric variables among different ethnic groups of South-Kivu, DR Congo

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Urology, 2020
Background The prevalence of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) varies among individuals from different races or ethnic groups. South-Kivu province (DR Congo) has several morphologically different ethnic groups.
L. E. Mubenga   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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