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Drought is a problem in South Africa and it affects farmers. As a result, farmers and government are working together to develop strategies.
Technocrats across the African continent are battling to change the direction of corrupt, violent governments
Zimbabwe’s ruling party is facing a wave of online and offline protest.
While South Africa voted to chasten the ANC, Zambians endured an election campaign filled with abuse and claims to Godliness.
Robert Mugabe’s indigenisation laws demand that companies operating in Zimbabwe transfer most of their capital into local hands.
There’s more to fermented foods than a good meal. Scientists are learning just how such foods encourage the growth of probiotics and how this keeps people healthy.
Modern techniques such as CT scanning and ancient DNA analysis have allowed scientists to discover a great deal about a mummy found in a shallow grave in Botswana.
In sub-Saharan Africa more women may be infected with HIV than men - but men are more likely to die because of poor testing and treatment regimes.
Children living with albinism are very vulnerable to attack, kidnapping, mutilation and murder. In Tanzania, fear is keeping many children away from school and costing them an education.
Geoengineering could help regions affected by climate change deal with the problem.
British diplomats put their money on the wrong man after the Lancaster House agreement.
It has been an exciting month for Africa, not least for the highly controversial elections in Tanzania, where the annulment of the entire vote in Zanzibar has played an important role in extending the…
China’s economy has continued to slow despite efforts by its leaders to give it a boost, which is very bad news for an increasingly dependent Africa.
Formlings are representations of flying termites and their underground nests. They are associated with botantical subjects considered by the San to have great spiritual significance.
In the region, the Southern African Development Community will have a critical role to ensure the targets of the sustainable development goals are met over the next 15 years.
Medicine shortages in southern Africa, particularly of anti-retrovirals for HIV patients, require urgent attention. A regional approach to distribution has been tried in South America and could work for the region.
Southern African countries do not face water scarcity and do not need to build joint water projects. But they do need talk to each other to avoid misunderstandings.
We need political intervention if southern African countries are to mitigate the effects of climate change.
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Post-doc, University of Copenhagen
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Director of the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg
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Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher, Agricultural Research Council
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Assistant Professor, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director & SARChI Research Chair: Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, University of Pretoria
