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Expansion of cashew production for export poses potential challenges particularly around food security
The election’s result endorses other evidence that trust in South Africa’s constitutional settlement and its political institutions is steadily declining.
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The current Ebola outbreak in the DRC is incredibly difficult to manage.
Achieving the sustainable development goals on education in Ghana requires efficient resource allocation, not necessarily more money.
Directors who are unfairly kicked out of office by a hostile board face challenges since the legal remedies open to them are unclear.
Corruption includes both what people do and what they fail to do. The critical issue is a person’s motive.
Chimpanzees, like humans, possess working memory abilities. They’re able to perform similar to seven-year-old children.
In some ways, perhaps Morrison is even more relevant in South African universities today than she’s ever been.
There’s no uniformity around health and safety management programmes and practices within the construction industry.
Politicians, activists and media outlets continue to deconstruct old narratives and perpetuate new grievances. Nobody, however, is as busy reconstructing a new, inclusive story.
Calls for secession in Ethiopia could destabilise the entire nation.
The DRC president’s direct involvement can rally people who have previously doubted the reality of the outbreak.
Do African decision-makers and leaders approach crises differently from counterparts elsewhere in the world?
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine is based on three key requirements working together: signals from body tissues and organs, responding stem cells, and scaffolds.
Due to its lack of international recognition and its limited financial capacity, Somaliland’s administration isn’t fully capable of supporting the education sector
The more we know about the animals that lived during this time, the more we can start to comprehend how species react and recover after an extinction event.
Ghana is banking on a much needed boost to its tourism sector from its call to Africans in the diaspora.
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Quantum machine learning is an exciting, rapidly growing field.
South Africa’s data collection is constantly improving. That’s especially true when it comes to metrics that weren’t collected or were distorted for political purposes during apartheid.
Given the framework within which removals under the Group Areas Act took place in Cape Town, a social disaster was inevitable.
Working with bone artefacts from archaeological sites in South Africa’s southern Cape region, we’ve been able to show that some implements might have been used for sound production in the past.
Uganda is the testing ground for a new vaccine that could work on more strains of the Ebola virus and other haemorrhagic fevers.
Attitudes to retirement can influence decisions to save and plan for it. In turn, factors such as stress or lack of interest at work can impact attitudes towards retirement.
One of the most interesting developments to emerge from the disaster in Brazil is how investors can work together with mining companies and regulatory bodies to improve tailings management systems.