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Bilateral and multilateral cooperation is the best way to deal with a growing list of transboundary concerns.
The G7 summit offered the most recent insights for Africa into how western nations are considering their stakes in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the impact that could have on developing nations.
Despite being almost erased from history, Sithole’s ideas are still relevant today.
It is important to embrace all the nation’s languages in a multilingual and multicultural society. This will ensure they are used, developed and mainstreamed.
The presence of fringe presidential contenders is a marker of maturing democracies.
Sandfish keep the rivers clean and the food web balanced but their numbers are declining. Farmers are helping to lift these numbers.
All that remains of the political icon is a tooth, but it represents much more than just a human trophy.
The country has had five governments in 10 years. Every time a government collapses, the reform programme follows suit.
Most refugees rarely gain citizenship in host countries and the work that is available to them is informal, irregular and precarious.
Buys, the award-winning novel by Willem Anker, uses lines without credit from the Irish writer - not the first such literary controversy it has raised.
In 2013 stories emerged of gangs stealing plasma TV screens to use to make street drugs. It’s a myth, but it tells us something about South Africa’s social anxieties.
Moore did not unearth any treasures in his research of Mugabe’s legacy. He has not even drawn a map that might lead us to them.
The AU needs to address two main problems to steer Africa into a prosperous future – the use of unconstitutional means by some leaders to cling to power and disregard for the rule of law.
The industry’s prices and profits would be lower if laws were enforced.
Small hive beetles are the only species known to trick worker bees into feeding them essential food for the bee colony’s own survival and reproduction.
Counties have better knowledge of the impact of food insecurity on households but lack the will and capacity to tackle it.
For the past 13 years I’ve focused on sequencing one plant pathogen’s genome. Here’s where that scientific journey has led.
There is enormous potential to increase the productivity of African fisheries. There is also potential to improve coastal and marine health.
There is a need for better innovations and policies to help improve the fisheries sector in this region.
Corruption in the Nigeria judiciary is pervasive and complex.
The decision further delays migration to digital broadcasting and places strain on the urgently needed bandwidth for mobile data.
Sometimes archaeologists can “hear” the ancient past using acoustic methods.
People make decisions throughout their lives about their health. But when they are terminally ill they are not allowed to decide when they want to die.
African countries must take bold actions to repair their health systems and make them more resilient.