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Zimbabwe has a severe energy crisis because its major sources of electricity are struggling to keep up with demand.
To reverse brain drain, the government should create a conducive environment for investment that will ensure employment opportunities
Travel is commonly perceived as “the” major factor affecting a team’s performance.
In light of Botswana’s decision to allow trophy hunting again, new evidence suggests elephant poaching has been on the rise.
Leadership is a major constraint to the development of Africa’s most popular sport.
Ghana has completed yet another IMF financial assistance programme. Given its long history of living within its means and then blowing the budget again, will it be knocking on the IMF’s doors soon?
The court case highlighted that key environmental challenges were not adequately covered by the Environmental Impact Assessment
We are, as Snyder is urgently reminding us, perilously close to the edge of the fascist cliff
Politics is being reduced to personalities in South Africa. The real issue is whether the damage that’s been done can be undone.
The Otigba Computer Village shows how businesses in a largely informal market identify new and useful knowledge, apply it innovatively to scale up their operations and increase profits.
Our work represents the first assessment of what social and economic factors are connected to environmental degradation across the entire African continent.
A shift in climate, along with other environmental disruptions and the invasion of competitors and new predators all likely played an important role in reshaping ancient elephants’ brains.
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When the policies and programmes developed in Belo Horizonte were rolled out nationally, Brazil experienced a notable decline in hunger.
Just 1% of refugees in the world are able to continue education beyond secondary school.
Natural resources are an important factor in explaining why some rebel groups forcibly recruit children into their ranks.
While the science is crucial, it is also important to know what sense the people who live in and around Laetoli make of these ancient footprints.
A new network of 20 sites have been declared as marine protected areas in South Africa.
The more people come to a city, the more demand for buildings is amplified.This demand creates pressure from which a range of agencies, motivations and causes arise.
Jacob Zuma’s religious utterances present a conundrum for scholars, as many poor South African Christians support his moral claims and celebrated his ill-gotten riches.
Cooperation with the Sudanese government to try al-Bashir could amount to legitimising those who themselves have been implicated in genocide
Secrecy around the HIV-positive status of young children in school is denying them the care and support they need for a good start.
A fast growing economy that creates jobs will not automatically reduce youth unemployment due to systemic barriers faced by young people, including skills shortages and malfunctioning labour markets.
As Zambia’s case study shows, the benefits of boosting investment in cigarette manufacturing run the risk of being wiped out by the health and economic development costs of increasing smoking.
Arming young people with financial capabilities does improve their employment prospects, but how exactly is still not clear. One possibility is that financial literacy boosts their confidence