Matobo, Zimbabwe, May 2024: southern Africa’s drought has devastated crops and pastures, leading to displacement.
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Climate change disrupts community stability, especially when it leads to food shortages and displacement. Governments must work with communities to set up policies to prevent this.
Having two legislative chambers tends to be seen as good for democracy.
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Upper chambers in some African parliaments have been used to weaken opposition groups.
Punters place their bets on European soccer games.
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What outsiders might view as wasted time (betting on sports) is actually being used productively to prepare for the future.
Mambo’s Chicken ads are the focus of a new study.
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Mambo’s Chicken regularly uses chicken breasts and thighs to objectify women. What does that say about men?
Farmer Takesure Chimbu walks on the bed of the Kapotesa dam in Mudzi, Zimbabwe, dried out by drought.
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The drought is driven by El Niño, an unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean that shifts weather patterns.
The town of Cilaos is just one of many draws for visitors to Réunion.
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Climate and weather play a large role in people’s leisure travel decisions.
Protests against apartheid in South Africa in 1980.
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Echoes of Southern African Independence is an audio archive project that brings history alive in a fresh and unique way.
Luxury nature tourism is an example of market-based conservation.
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The southern African wildlife economy is socially and environmentally unsustainable.
A performer holds an African National Congress fflag while listening to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Liberation was meant to deliver significant change, for the better. But South Africa and Namibia show that the new elites that took power exercised it for their own benefit.
Artist reconstruction of Musankwa sanyatiensis (left).
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Musankwa is only the fourth dinosaur to be named from Zimbabwe.
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These social media posts aren’t just for fun – they’re a way to fight back against discrimination and show the world that queer love is powerful and important.
African countries have a history of not exploiting their mineral wealth fully.
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Africa hosts substantial reserves of critical minerals.
Sweet sorghum ripening in Rwanda.
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Sweet sorghum has multipurpose post-harvest uses. It can produce grains, animal feed and sugary juice, making it unique among crops.
Total abolition will be the logical endpoint of a gradual process of decolonising Zimbabwean law.
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While some opposition is to be expected, indications are that the general Zimbabwean public will take the government’s lead on abolition.
A member of the Lemba people at Mapungubwe Hill in Limpopo, South Africa.
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The Lemba view is that one can be indigenous to more than one place, and that more than one people can be indigenous to a single place.
South Africa’s new biodiversity economy strategy aims to make the benefits from biodiversity available to more people.
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The strategy aims to conserve biodiversity while also contributing to the creation of jobs and economic growth.
Financial abuse persists when access to economic opportunities is controlled or limited by an intimate partner.
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When money is entangled with relationships, it can often become a tricky situation.
Children will often sing and dance for visiting tourists.
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A school tour often sits within the itinerary of a tour of southern Africa, or alongside wildlife tourism ventures.
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The whole southern Africa region has taken strain and will see a significant reduction in the volume of the crop produced.
People in the Living Museum of the Ju/’hoansi San, Grashoek, Namibia.
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There are several reasons why ethical conduct in scientific research is so important.