By Ahmed Al-Juhany, PhD Candidate, University of Calgary
In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases — a global, standard-setting guideline for how institutions should understand and organize health information. In it was a new diagnostic category for symptoms and signs of disease: “old age.”
The new category sparked outrage and, in 2021, the
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Coalition parties on Sunday formally endorsed a joint policy on climate and energy that drops the commitment to net zero.
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By Jonathan Powell, Visiting assistant professor, University of Kentucky
Salah Ben Hammou, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rice University
Guinea-Bissau heads into its November elections against the backdrop of a deepening crisis of electoral legitimacy across Africa. In recent months, a string of elections has reinforced the perception that incumbency, not competition, remains the standard.
In Cameroon, 92-year-old Paul Biya claimed an eighth consecutive term after officially winning 53.7% of a vote widely denounced…
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By Kirsten A Donald, Professor of Paediatric Neurology and Development, University of Cape Town
Lucinda Tsunga, Psychologist, University of Cape Town
Violence exposure in early childhood is widespread in low- and middle-income countries and has clear impacts on young children’s mental health.
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By Danny Bradlow, Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
The end of South Africa’s G20 presidency does not mean the end of its ability or responsibility to promote the issues it prioritised during 2025. It can still advocate for action on some of these issues through its further participation in the G20 and in other international and regional forums.
In this article, I argue that going forward South Africa should prioritise the financial challenges confronting Africa that it championed in 2025.
South Africa established four…
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By Saheed Babajide Owonikoko, Researcher, Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Modibbo Adama University of Technology
For the second time in five years, Nigeria has been designated a “country of particular concern” by the US government, in both cases by President Donald Trump. The first time was in 2020 but the designation was removed in 2021.
The November 2025 redesignation can be traced to, among other things,…
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By Hilal Sahin
When people's basic needs are met before crises erupt, our communities stay peaceful, not because we police more, but because fewer people are pushed into making desperate choices.
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Friday, November 14, 2025
Second International Conference on the Political Declaration on Strengthening the Protection of Civilians from the Humanitarian Consequences Arising from the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas San José, Costa Rica, 18–20 November 2025
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Waorani Indigenous leaders protest in front of the Constitutional Court in Quito on August 20, 2025, two years after a key victory for climate democracy in an Indigenous-led referendum to halt exploitation of an oil block in Yasuni National Park. © 2025 Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images
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By Calum Lister Matheson, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Pittsburgh
A communications researcher lays out the dynamics of conspiracy theory belief and why they gain traction in times of anxiety and uncertainty.
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