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South Sudan has been in the business of building peace for years but is no closer to implementing the roadmap to peace than when it drafted the first agreement.
The leader of the centre-left Frente de Todos alliance won a surprise victory in primary elections in August.
We shouldn’t assume that discussion of bodily changes necessarily means progression towards a more equal society.
South Africa’s planned NHI has no equivalent in any setting in the world. It’s deeply flawed on a number of fronts.
As Kashmir faces new challenges, our forms of allyship must also evolve. Perhaps we can learn some lessons from its kitchens.
High-income country experts and institutions are valued more than expertise in low- and middle-income countries.
In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a tidy sum of $7.2 million. Trump probably wouldn’t be able to get that kind of bargain for Greenland.
Russia appears to have developed a revolutionary mini-reactor able to power a missile.
People in jail kill themselves at a rate 3.5 times higher than that of the general population.
Facebook and Neuralink are developing interfaces to link our brains to computers, with serious ethical issues.
The DRC president’s direct involvement can rally people who have previously doubted the reality of the outbreak.
Ghana is banking on a much needed boost to its tourism sector from its call to Africans in the diaspora.
New research shows that there’s much in a name: people will use the sounds in names to infer someone’s physical and personality traits.
For one, you can’t break an economy that’s already broken.
Good news – underground aquifers could be a reliable source of drinking water in sub-Saharan Africa even as the climate warms.
In her creative and critical work, Toni Morrison sought to remap the contours of American literature and culture.
For decades, the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir had a special status, with its own constitution, flag and the ability to make its own laws.
We found that women who had access to subsidised day-care services were 17% more likely to be employed than those who were not.
Hajj pilgrims looking online for advice about their upcoming pilgrimage to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, may not find TripAdvisor so useful.
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