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Developing breakthroughs takes time. So why rush explaining them?
Young Muslims protest in 2012 after the killing of a cleric accused of supporting Al-Shabaab.
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The jihadi initiative remains a loose political force in Kenya. This is dangerous for a few reasons.
In Mali, pastoralists have become increasingly disgruntled with a predatory and corrupt state.
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Herders and farmers are unhappy about the way a corrupt state exploits rural peasants.
There are concerns that Africa may be excluded from advances in genetic brain research brain.
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There’s been significant advances in mental health genetics research, but Africa has largely been excluded.
The Nile River during sunset in Luxor, Egypt.
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The threat to use force to defend Egypt’s right to water from the Nile has been a common theme through successive governments.
Police in Ghana have a reputation for intimidation, violence and corruption.
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Poor supervision, poor training, and unfair treatment of lower-ranked officers make misconduct more likely to happen among Ghana’s police force.
Messaging services like WhatsApp open many doors for Nigerian women.
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With technology women are able to become agents of their own change.
Except during the relatively brief period of colonial rule, Rwanda was, and is, a violent society.
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Throughout the entire period, central political power has been almost absolute.
A Boxing Day Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Our research project sought to investigate the capacity of professional sport to communicate environmental issues and awareness.
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Did the minister or any of his staff read our application or any of the other ten he chose to reject?
In 2017 and 2018, as education minister, Simon Birmingham vetoed 11 ARC grants in the humanities.
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Projects submitted to the Australian Research Council are vetted heavily by panels of experts. Minister Birmingham’s decision undermines this process.
Censorship has been in the news again following Rwanda passing a new law.
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Political and editorial cartoons are a key indicator of the democratic health of a country - but they can also be regressive.
The Arab Spring was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups and civil wars in North Africa.
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Study suggests that the UN’s own principles sometimes prevented it from living up to its objectives
A new short drug treatment for tuberculosis, called BPaMZ, is showing promise in trials.
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We cannot end TB with century-old technologies and poor quality care. It is time to reinvent the way we are managing TB, and overcome our collective failures of the imagination.
Asking questions can create new ways of teaching and learning.
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It’s vital for academics in South Africa to start asking deep questions that examine what decolonialism could look like in their teaching.
Hunger is a daily reality across large parts of Africa.
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It’s one thing to come up with food security plans. But implementing them is tough.
In a technology-driven and interconnected world, the speed of creation and dissemination of knowledge makes it even more central to economic growth that it was fifty years ago.
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The Indonesian public sector has some challenges to overcome to be able to design better policies.
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Research is changing how artists contribute to the world’s knowledge base.
When teachers collaborate, they learn from each other.
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The need for qualified teachers is a major challenge in a number of African countries.
Swings can be educational tools.
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The way science is currently taught in southern African countries ignores the fact that the whole environment is a laboratory for learning.
Research suggests that women enterprises in Tanzania are shy to take up business loans.
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Women-owned small business in Tanzania stay away from formal loans because of their negative beliefs about loans.