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Focusing on everyday politics can help explain why powerful interest groups undermine policies that might improve the public good.
The lack of in-depth coverage of the southern African floods tell a grim picture of the state of South Africa’s newsrooms.
From New Orleans to Haiti to Mozambique, global inequality plays a major role in making disasters deadly.
The recent storms provide a grim reminder of the prospect of future tropical cyclones in a region under continued threat from climate change.
High poverty levels mean people lack access to land and work and they are often driven to settle in zones that are exposed to natural hazards.
Across Africa less than 10% of the population is connected to a sewer system. But the waste could be used elsewhere.
Female-centred health services are good, but they may detract from gender equality and men’s health.
Angola’s new President João Lourenço has shown some willingness to engage in more inclusive politics.
Lake Malawi is considered a biodiversity treasure because almost all its species occurs nowhere else on the planet.
Liberian President George Weah believes the current citizenship regulations in the country are unnecessarily “racist” and restrictive.
It’s all too common for local scholars to be sidelined in what are supposed to be genuine research partnerships.
Non-Timber Forest Products don’t often feature in discussions about poverty reduction and alleviation.
Access to HIV testing is an important factor in reaching UN goals that 90% of people with HIV must know their status by 2020.
It’s one thing to come up with food security plans. But implementing them is tough.
Planning for rivers is one thing, but implementation is another as urbanisation and population growth increases.
In reality, cybersecurity attacks are like a disease affecting people globally.
Without contextual knowledge, education and adaptation, foreign or imposed practices or resources cause new sets of problems.
Without change, the trajectory of growth and development in the world will remain consistent with that of the past 80 years.
High-tech drones and low-tech ‘bucket and spade’ are helping Malawians fight malaria.
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Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Malawi
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in Media and Communications, University of Malawi
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Director & SARChI Research Chair: Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, University of Pretoria
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Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Durham University
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Associate professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, College of Nursing
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Professor of Economics and Lead Researcher, Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, UJ, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Hull
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Senior Director, Transformation Strategies Department, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR System Organization
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Associate Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and African Climate and Development Initiative Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Health Systems and Policy, University of Malawi
