Thursday, August 13, 2026
Civilian casualties in Ukraine reached their highest monthly level in July, with more people killed and injured than at any time since March 2022, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country, HRMMU, said in an update on Thursday.
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By Michael Oluwatosin Bodunrin, Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
Abdalrhaman Koko, Senior scientist, National Physical Laboratory
Nihad Omer, Assistant professor, Sudan University of Science and Technology
For centuries, useful metals have been developed by starting with one core element and adding small amounts of other elements. Steel, for example, is composed primarily of iron; carbon is added in varied amounts to produce different grades of steel. Bronze is made up of copper and tin. These mixtures are known as alloys.
Africa already supplies several of the metals used in alloys. Yet the continent captures far less value from designing and manufacturing advanced materials than from mining the ores that make them possible. For example, the continent supplies…
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By Johann Frederich Kirsten, Associate Professor in the School of Economics, University of Johannesburg
Mduduzi Biyase, Professor of economics, University of Johannesburg
In a rural South African village, climate action is influenced by ubuntu: the belief that people are connected and have a responsibility to one another.
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By Opeoluwa Adeosun, Researcher, Department of Economics, Obafemi Awolowo University
Conflicts in Africa vary in scope and intensity. They range from large-scale civil wars to territorial disputes, localised insurgencies, inter-communal violence, political instability, armed conflict and terrorism. The continent has earned the reputation of being the world’s bloodiest.
These conflicts can be felt across country borders. I am an economist…
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By Karin Barber, Emeritus Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham
English was imposed as Nigeria’s official language, but the British had no way of controlling what people did with it.
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By Nima Shokri, Executive Co-Director, Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg
Oil slicks moving along Iran’s southern coast have reached the Hara mangrove forests of Qeshm Island. Iranian authorities say the extent of the contamination is still being assessed and the source of the oil pollution has not yet been established. But several oil spills have been detected in the region since the war between the US and Iran began.
The
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By Doug Specht, Reader in Cultural Geography and Communication, University of Westminster
A wildfire needs a name long before anyone knows what caused it. When the pines of the Gironde in southwestern France caught light in July, the fire was being reported within hours under the name of the ground it was burning. By the time it had taken 40,000 hectares, that name was fixed in every bulletin in Europe.
The investigation into how it started took longer, and the scientists working out why it ran so far took longer still, publishing into a news cycle that had already moved on.
Every…
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By Amy Brown, Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
Aimee Grant, Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
To afford milk parents described restricting their own food or heating, getting into debt and returning from maternity leave very early.
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By Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
This summer will be one of the coolest in your lifetime. With better planning for these now normal extreme summers, some heat-related deaths can be prevented.
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By Judah Adeniyi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Memorial University of Newfoundland
For older employees already experiencing burnout, poorly designed or poorly timed training can become an additional job demand rather than a solution.
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