Variations of customary tenure, chiefly power, and global norms for responsible land investments in Sierra Leone

In-migration, customary land tenure, and complexity: exploring the relationship between changing land tenure norms and differentiated migrant livelihoods in Brong Ahafo, Ghana

This article focuses on the relationship between in-migration from Northern Ghana and changing land tenure norms in Ghana's central "transition zone" in Brong Ahafo Region. Using the complex adaptive systems (CAS) theoretical framework, it theorizes this relationship as part of a wider set of "co-evolving" social and environmental conditions across Brong Ahafo. It presents new qualitative resea...

The Land Has Its Owners! Gender Issues in Land Tenure under Customary Law in Kenya

Mining and Environmental Degradation: a Gift Brings Grief Scenario for Mining Communities in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is blessed with abundant natural resources but yet prone to environmental degradation due to the mining operations. Most often, the mining communities are faced with social tensions, as a result of the possible trade-off between the expected employment impact and the cost of mining operations to the environment. Over the past decades, the contribution of the mining sector to the de...

Original Reports: Global Health Hypertension in Bo, Sierra Leone

Results: Data from 3944 individuals were analyzed (mean age 38.7 years). The overall prevalence of hypertension among those aged $15 years was 25.2%, with an age-adjusted prevalence of 19.6%. The prevalence of hypertension for participants aged $20 years was 27.1%, with an age-adjusted prevalence of 23.6%. There were no significant differences in blood pressure by sex. The prevalence of hyperte...

Hantavirus in Bat, Sierra Leone

The molecular masses of the PrPres moieties from the 2 cows were also clearly distinct from those from controls with Land H-BSE (Figure). For samples from animals with H-BSE, enzymatic deglycosylation demonstrated PrPres subtypes, 1 and 2, the latter being a C-terminal PrPres fragment of ≈12–14 kDa (6). To investigate whether the novel PrPres type corresponds to PrPres subtype 2, we compared sa...