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Adequate wastewater treatment systems are crucial to ensure that wastewater from the oil industry does less damage.
Al-Shabaab remains a strong regional actor and has proved itself to be a resilient force. It’s time to weigh a non-war strategic option
A small but vocal lobby – some aided by US conservatives – have drawn battle lines around unisex bathrooms and gender pronouns.
Mandela, the first president of a democratic South Africa, made big strategic choices – not necessarily the right ones, but certainly ones that were befitting of the times.
Mountain systems are sensitive to climate change. Loss of snow and ice sets off effects which have wide ranging consequences.
Parents are enablers, motivators and facilitators of their children’s education.
Employment-intensive growth and a low emissions strategy can complement each other in South Africa.
To address Africa’s heavy dependence on fossil fuels and hydropower, there is a need for investment in renewable energy sources like wind and solar.
Despite America’s deep divisions, the electioneering showed democracy’s resilience. This should be a boost for democracy advocates across Africa.
In 2018, Africa accounted for 70% of the world’s people displaced by armed conflict and human rights abuses.
A central repository system offers practical solutions to reducing the large number of awaiting-trial inmates in Nigeria.
Cities, which account for 70% of emissions globally, should be at the frontline of tackling some of the most severe effects of climate change.
Ghanaian urban and development planners need to move away from looking up to examples of innovations from the global north.
Eight countries are projected to be behind 50% of the growth in population over the next three decades. Five are in Africa.
There are ways in which platform workers can resist the rise in job insecurity and poor working conditions brought on by digital labour platforms.
Many people accept the Egyptian government’s restrictions on freedoms, for a variety of conflicting reasons.
When it comes to dependency on coal power plants, South Africa is in a class of its own: 85% of its electricity is produced in coal power plants.
The purpose of term limits is to minimise corruption and open the government to new ideas that could solve national problems.
Ahead of 2023 general elections, there are increasing concerns that the current spate of violence in Nigeria, if unchecked, could undermine electoral outcomes.
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer of Political Science, Georgia Gwinnett College
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Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham
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Senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham
