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The importance of accessing water that’s safe to drink and enough for washing, cleaning and cooking is clear, but little attention has been given to the safety of water collection away from home.
Artificially dimming the sun, by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere, could reduce the risk of Day Zero level droughts in Cape Town by more than 90% in the future.
The police in Nigeria and Ghana must receive gender sensitivity training to effectively fight domestic violence.
Healthy soils are vital for food, biodiversity, and a healthy planet, but this below-ground world is often overlooked. The launch of the State of Knowledge of Soil Biodiversity Report highlights this.
Penguins are sensitive to ecosystem changes such as reduction of available prey, pollution and climate change. Their presence and abundance is indicative of a healthy and balanced ecosystem.
Researchers have come up with a new framework that assigns an invasive species threat score to World Heritage Sites. This will improve how these species monitored and managed.
The changes proposed by the initiative are were well-addressed in the country’s 2010 Constitution.
Rural people’s access to fuelwood isn’t determined by the availability of the wood, instead it’s controlled by power dynamics.
South African customary law should be understood from the perspective of dissonance between the past and the present.
Leading during a crisis: how leaders of higher education institutions can adapt and innovate during uncertain times.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will be better able to balance policies between the advanced economies and developing ones to achieve sustainable global economic growth and development.
Social norms, practices and attitudes in African societies hinder the lives, survival and development of girls.
Waste management should be treated as an essential service, and in Nigeria that means recognising informal workers.
In surpassing opposition stalwart Kizza Besigye, Robert Kyagulanyi has done what many Ugandans thought impossible. But can he topple Museveni?
The standoff between Abiy Ahmed and the armed forces in Tigray has already caused thousands to flee their homes.
The Ethiopian premier is manipulating ethnic rivalries to shift the agenda from democratic reform to authoritarianism.
The tensions that had been simmering between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and the Abiy administration eventually boiled over.
Hope and religion can be important coping resources for people during strict lockdowns - but also a source of struggle.
Most of the wastewater produced worldwide receives no treatment and the nutrients in wastewater go to waste. Here’s how households can draw these nutrients from urine and use them as fertilisers.
Twenty years after the first China-Africa forum, the perceptions of ordinary African citizens still need to be better considered in government-to-government interactions.
President John Magufuli won a second term by a contested landslide and looks set to take even greater control of Tanzania’s democratic space.
The higher education sector has to re-think what the future of higher education looks like and take steps towards this.
The fact that there’s a growing number of child vendors means government interventions for vulnerable children aren’t reaching everyone in need.
What’s taught in South African schools is at odds with the skills pupils need for the post-school world.