The development trajectory of South African born brewer SABMiller peaked with the 2016 $104 billion merger with Anheuser-Busch InBev. Behind it lies an extraordinary journey.
Technology, like this tea-picking machine in Kenya, can harness agriculture’s power to change lives.
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Lars Laestadius, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Africa’s great green wall suffers from a major mismatch between ambition and effort. But that’s not to say it should be ditched altogether.
Brutal police raids on São Paulo’s so-called ‘Crackland’ have shocked the city and paved the way for redevelopment of this prime piece of real estate.
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Luz, a once-elegant 19th-century neighbourhood in downtown São Paulo, is prime real estate. But redevelopment means clearing out a homeless encampment known as “Crackland”.
Arab Spring protesters were often below 24 years old. Cairo January 28, 2011. R.
Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
The end of apartheid should have heralded a new South Africa for the generation born at its demise. But that hasn’t happened.
People across Africa don’t have access to mental health professionals. A new community-based approach in Zimbabwe is proving effective.
Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko
Weeks after Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement, powerful US cities are asserting themselves like nation-states to maintain the pact made with the world to help save the planet.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), right, with Delfina Gomez of his MORENA party. Gómez narrowly lost the Mexico State governor’s race on June 4 but gave her party a boost for the presidency.
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Professor Samir Brahmachari’s innovative Open Source Drug Development allows thousands of researchers to work together to discover novel therapies for under-studied diseases.
The larger grain borer beetle attacks crops like maize and cassava, threatening food security.
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Some 60,000 Brazilians are killed each year, accounting for 10% of all homicides worldwide. As terrorised voters look to authoritarian leaders to impose order, Brazil’s democracy hangs in the balance.
A new study of how frequently certain words were used between 1800 and 2000 shows that political power as a guiding principle is more important than money and religious belief.
Latvian Jelena Ostapenko won this year’s French Open at the age of just 20.
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The unpredictability of women’s tennis in 2017 should make us strongly question the performance of the official rankings – and not simply the players’ performance.
Front cover of Tjarrany Roughtail - the book features a collection of Dreaming stories.
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Professor in Practice on Environmental Innovation, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK, National University of Singapore