By Nicodemus Minde, Researcher, United States International University
The East African Community is one of Africa’s oldest regional economic organisations. Its birth in 1967 was the culmination of decades of economic ties forged in the colonial era between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. It’s no surprise that the EAC is also the most…
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By Libby Ware, PhD, Biological Anthropology, Université de Montréal
For effective child-rearing outcomes, parenting should not be seen as fixed styles — authoritative or permissive — but as a flexible, adaptive process shaped by environment.
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By Obasanjo Bolarinwa, Senior lecturer, York St John University
Sylvester Okeke, Research fellow, UNSW Sydney
Adolescent girls and young women are at the heart of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. They need to know their HIV status.
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By Clement Sefa-Nyarko, Lecturer in Security, Development and Leadership in Africa, King's College London
Ghana’s parliament ratified the country’s first lithium mining agreement in March 2026. This came three years after lithium mining was confirmed as commercially viable in September 2023.
The Ewoyaa Lithium Project, in the Central Region of Ghana, covers an area where farming communities have lived for generations. It spans several…
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By Christine Abdalla Mikhaeil, Assistant professor in information systems, IÉSEG School of Management
Global digital infrastructure behind literally every modern service requiring data backup or authentification for example, is far more fragile than you’d think…
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By Eduardo B. Farfán, Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Director of the Center for Nuclear Studies, Kennesaw State University
When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster than people expect.
The Chernobyl accident in 1986 and the Fukushima Daiichi accident in 2011 released radioactive materials…
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By Ursula F Ott, Professor of International Business, Nottingham Trent University
It is now almost a decade since the UK voted for Brexit and since the tariffs of US president Donald Trump’s first term increased global trade frictions. Brexit removed the UK from the European single market for goods and services. Now though, the country is proposing a pivot back towards alignment with EU regulations.
What could have not been widely predicted back in 2016 was the COVID pandemic, nor a war on European soil. The UK has been exposed to these shocks without the EU support system.…
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By Frédéric Fréry, Professeur de stratégie, CentraleSupélec, ESCP Business School
The prospect of a massive IPO for OpenAI is about more than just a cash injection, it poses a broader ethical question: is market-driven AI a “safe” bet?
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Next month’s federal budget is an even tighter balancing act than usual, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers facing global…
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By Marcus Michelangeli, Lecturer, Environmental Sustainability and Management, Griffith University
Jack Brand, Researcher in Behavioural and Movement Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Fish or sharks on cocaine might sound like something dreamed up in a Hollywood writers’ room, but the reality is far less entertaining. Increasingly, scientists are detecting cocaine and other powerful drugs in aquatic environments, and even in the brains and bodies of wildlife.
A 2024 study from Brazil made headlines after finding cocaine in the muscles and liver of wild…
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