By Vera Moerbeek, Doctorante en physique, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS); Université de Perpignan Via Domitia
Solar energy is associated with intermittency issues, as it only generates electricity when the sun shines. Certain PV systems can provide cost-effective power reserves for storing electricity.
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By Jan Pospisil, Researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs
South Sudan is expected to hold an election on 22 December 2026, the first in the country’s history. It’s already been postponed twice, in 2022 and 2024.
A great deal is being said and written about whether…
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By Saheed Balogun Amusa, Professor of History, Obafemi Awolowo University
The Nigerian Senate passed a bill on 24 June 2026 establishing state police in the 36 states of the country. The passage of the executive bill, sent to the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu, officially opens the way to dismantle the decades-old structure of the Nigeria Police Force and replace it with a dual model, comprising the Federal Police Service and State Police Services. Saheed Balogun Amusa, a police…
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By Jan Hugo, Senior lecturer in Sustainable and Climate Responsive Architecture, University of Pretoria
Chrisna du Plessis, Professor of Regenerative Futures, University of Pretoria
Karina Landman, Professor of Town and Regional Planning
Parks do more than cool cities. They also help people work together to cope with climate change, but only if local communities help design, manage and care for them.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Muhammad Aidha’s car in the yard of a police station, where it had been moved to after an explosive device planted in the car detonated and killed him, in Mukalla, Yemen, June 25, 2026. © 2026 Reuters Journalist Muhammad Aidha, who had reported for the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya and Al Hadath channels since 2019, was killed in Mukalla in eastern Yemen on June 24 by an explosive device planted in his car.Three days later, on June 27, Marib security forces detained journalist Hamoud Haza while he was covering a public event. Haza told Human Rights Watch that he was…
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By Mario Valdivia
Early damage estimates vary widely, but all point to the same conclusion: rebuilding Venezuela will require unprecedented financial resources and long-term economic recovery efforts.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Labor national conference has been a textbook exercise in managed democracy.
This reached its pinnacle when the powers-that-be – ministers and factional heavyweights – worked behind closed doors to squash an attempted revolt over the party’s draft platform on Israel and Gaza.
Labor’s rank and filers are strongly pro-Palestine. Former minister Ed Husic (who is Muslim), the rebel of the conference’s corridors, wanted to make the draft much tougher on Israel, including, among other points, a reference to a United Nations inquiry that spoke about genocide.
Intense…
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By Amnesty International
Every 25 July, the International Day of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women reminds us that Black women do more than survive the crises surrounding them. They are also the ones sustaining life in the midst of them. In Haiti, Tina Nadine Anilus has spent more than fifteen years doing exactly that. As the founder […] The post Haiti: The Women Sustaining What the State Has Abandoned appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
(Beirut) – Two Israeli settler attacks on Tal village near Nablus in the West Bank on July 24, 2026, resulted in the killing of four Palestinians and two Israelis, Human Rights Watch said today. The incident triggered a wave of settler reprisal attacks in nearby Palestinian villages, the Israeli government’s announcement of a “major counterterrorism operation,” and Israeli officials calling for the destruction of Palestinian homes and villages. Concerned governments should urgently act to prevent further settler violence and atrocities.“The Israeli government didn’t prevent the settler attacks…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Seventeenth session of the International Criminal Court's Assembly of States Parties in The Hague, Netherlands, December 2018. © 2018 Syd Boyd/Coalition for the International Criminal Court (New York) – The Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC), during a special session on July 24, 2026, decided to remove the court’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, from office for serious misconduct and serious breach of duty.The following quote can be attributed to Liz Evenson, international justice director at Human Rights Watch: “In this moment, there…
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