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Trading the Blackboard for Health Talks: How Former Teacher Azalet Dube Drives Change with MSF

Working with individuals, patients and communities who need her help has become part of Azalet Dubes DNA as a Health Promoter (HP) with Doctors Without Borders (MSF). On any given day, Mama Dube, as she is affectionately known, can be found facilitating health talks; conducting workshops for partner organisations on health promotion; sharing information with patients or simply lending an empathetic ear to those who need it.

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AFROBAROMETER Observer Statement to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights2026 Reveals Increasing Water Shortage across the Continent

By Tendai Keith Guvamombe-

In a powerful presentation that brought the harsh realities of millions of African citizens to the floor of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), Afrobarometer has declared that the continent is facing a structural crisis in water and sanitation that can no longer wait for incremental political promises.

Delivering the observer statement on behalf of the pan-African research network, Nyasha Mpani, Project Leader for the Data for Governance Alliance Project, provided a sobering, data-driven indictment of state accountability, revealing that more than half of the continent’s population experiences severe water scarcity.