Ecowas has a patchy track record when it comes to ensuring cooperation and security across west Africa – member states are now starting to leave.
An aerial photo of the Tuvaluan capital Funafuti. Low lying Pacific island nations like Tuvalu face an existential threat from rising sea levels.
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The climate migration deal has been dubbed as offering Tuvaluans a lifeline, but others say it is a neocolonial arrangement that does not tackle rising ocean levels.
The fossils with the carbon fibre tube they were kept in on the space flight.
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‘Tár’ shines a spotlight on the challenges of working in the ultraconservative world of classical music, including complex social issues such as misogyny, racism and homophobia.
Kwame Nkrumah’s political legacy is struggling to stay afloat in Ghana.
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The South African Khoe-San communities are no strangers to exploitative research. One research team is trying to provide genetic ancestry results to community members. But they still face many challenges.
Trade partnerships rarely work in the West African region.
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Science fiction writing often serves as a thought experiment that explores shared and hidden beliefs whose material and political reverberations lie further in the future.
Nauru is best known as a site of Australian offshore asylum detention. But everyone on the island - not just refugees - is struggling with the issue of environmental change that threatens their lives and homes.
Researchers who fly in and out of a developing country only for research samples, with little involvement of local scientists, are practising helicopter research.
Director of Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project, Associate Professor at Africa Institute Sharjah & Associate Graduate Faculty, Rutgers University