Studying ancient African societies, like Great Zimbabwe, can reveal how communities dealt with disease and pandemics.
Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
When restricting the movement of their citizens to slow down the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, low income countries should tailor measures to local socio-economic circumstances.
An illegal Zimbawean immigrant crosses into South Africa.
EFE-EPA/Kim Ludbrook
The alarm being raised by multilateral financial institutions about rising government debt across Africa is exaggerated. The real problem is that African governments pay way over the odds for debt.
Serious lead poisoning cases are a growing problem on the continent.
GeetyImages
Unregulated and hazardous lead acid battery manufacturing and recycling plants are often adjacent to residential areas, agricultural and grazing lands.
Environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion protest in Pretoria, South Africa.
EFE-EPA/Kim Ludbrook
Global cooperation is essential if climate action is to be effective, amid the right-wing onslaught against multilateralism.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends the opening of the new Turkish embassy in Mogadishu in June 2016.
MOHAMED Abdiwahab/AFP via Getty Images
Opium played a fascinating role in southern African colonial politics, conflict and social change - from the poppy fields of Mozambique to the early days of Johannesburg city.
From colonial poppy fields to pharmatrash, southern Africa offers a fascinating history of drug regimes – one that helps us make sense of drug policies and legislation today.
In Eswatini, Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho more than 1 in 5 children are HIV-exposed but uninfected. A coordinated strategy is needed to ensure all children reach their developmental potential.
Nowhere in South Africa is the migrant population as dense as in inner-city Johannesburg.
Supplied
Many of the most fundamental aspects of TB disease remain unknown. For example, after exposure to the organism that causes TB, why do only some people get infected and only some of those fall ill?
A small boat carries passengers across the Zambezi river.
Wikimedia Commons
Tropical cyclones Idai and Kenneth have shown how important it is to integrate local information and resources with global scale forecasts and support.
Baby sea turtles head for their natural habitat.
noga f/Shutterstock
These trackways preserve an incredibly brief moment in time. More importantly, they tell us about ancient climates, and how turtle breeding ranges have changed over the millenia
Rosewood is coveted for its colour
Winai Tepsuttinun/Shutterstock
Paolo Omar Cerutti, Centre for International Forestry Research and Nils Bourland, Centre for International Forestry Research
CITES’ decision seeks to increase levels of monitoring so that we can be more and better informed about the illegal trade of Mukula and over-harvesting.
Mozambique uses income as a measure of poverty. On this basis, poverty has declined over the past two decades.
ANTONIO SILVA/epa
Income is a useful measure for tracking economic progress over time. But a broader lens is needed to understand the relational and often political ways in which poverty emerges and is reproduced.