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Africa faces diabetes crisis, study finds

A study in the medical journal The Lancet published in March 2025 says that by 2045, about 12% of sub-Saharan Africans could have diabetes.

Researchers warn that type 2 diabetes could affect millions more people in the coming decades after a study published this month revealed the disease is rising far faster among people in sub-Saharan Africa than previously thought.

Take 51-year-old security guard Sibusiso Sithole, for example. Being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes came as a shock, he said, because he walked six miles to and from work every day and never thought his weight was a problem.

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