The map that went viral.
Sukhmani Mantel
Maps can show “the big picture” to lots and lots of people in an engaging and colourful way.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s rise to power was not without challenges.
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Ethiopia has gone through a series of changes that’s put the country on firm democratic footing.
The bullet cluster.
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New research suggests we may be able to forget about dark matter if we tweak the laws of gravity according to imaginary bubbles in space.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has banned sports betting and a variety of other gambling activities.
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There’s a strong case to ban gambling as it’s rapidly becoming a public health concern in sub-Saharan Africa.
Less recreational screen time is better for children.
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Global experts warn that excessive screen time increases the risk of obesity, low physical fitness, anxiety and depression.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir at the Arab Summit in Saudi Arabia in April 2018.
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The uprising in Sudan has weakened the authority of President Omar al-Bashir and political Islam in the country.
Give it a miss.
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‘Eat breakfast like a king’ is flawed advice, new study finds.
Lusala a local wild yam in Zambia that supplements diets has seen a considerable rise in demand.
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Lusala, a wild yam that many in Zambia rely on for consumption and trade, is gradually taking longer to find due to deforestation.
Corruption is rife in the awarding of contracts for infrastructure projects, such as roads, in Nigeria.
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There is a huge amount of secrecy around the budgeting process at every level of the Nigerian government.
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New research in China adds to the evidence of a direct link between air pollution and happiness.
The world’s remaining wilderness. Dark blue = terrestrial. Light blue = marine.
Modified with permission from Protect the last of the wild, Watson et al, Nature (2018)
Zooming in on deforestation and other wild habitat loss can help us work out how best to protect wilderness.
Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatment according to each person’s genetic makeup.
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Gene sequences can be manipulated to prevent certain diseases and improve public health.
The trilobite manuport (Bainella sp) from Robberg on the Cape south coast was carried at least 10 km to a small cave shelter. For scale, the bar is 10 cm long.
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Geomythology can be a powerful way to inspire more people on the continent to become interested in Africa’s palaeoscience.
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador with the families of the 43 students who went missing in 2014 in Guerrero state. He has ordered a truth commission to investigate the unsolved disappearance.
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President López Obrador campaigned on some outside-the-box ideas to ‘pacify’ Mexico after 12 years of extreme violence. But so far his government has emphasized traditional law-and-order policies.
South Africa’s President Cyril Rampahosa, right, must get tough on his Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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South Africa needs to make life as uncomfortable as possible for members of Zimbabwe’s government.
People living in run-down, inner city apartments, like these in Cairo, are at risk of heat-stress health problems.
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The number of people dying due to climate-led changes in the environment are increasing and the poorest populations remain the hardest hit.
A hawker sells clocks on a roadside in Nigeria’s oil rich Bayelsa state.
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Most of the things Nigerians complained about in 2015 are still unresolved – unemployment, poverty and economic disempowerment.
Angelo Agrizzi, the former chief operating officer of private security firm, at a South African commission of inquiry into corruption.
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The state capture inquiry is a remarkable political as well as legal event.
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Other nations tolerated the erosion of liberal values in Venezuela for a long time before crisis hit.
The French National Assembly, one of the Western institutions Western academics believe African countries should aspire to.
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The argument isn’t whether African democracies are better than those in the West. It’s simply that the idea of “real” and “not yet real” democracies expresses a colonial mentality, not reality.