By Tinashe Sithole, Postdoctoral research fellow at the SARChI Chair: African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, University of Johannesburg
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, South Africa’s foreign policy has been under sustained international scrutiny.
Its stance on the war in Ukraine has been one of active non-alignment. This means it has called for negotiations while abstaining from UN resolutions condemning Russia. However, it decided to take Israel to the International Court of Justice over the Gaza conflict in December 2023.
To many
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By Barney Walsh, Senior Lecturer in Security, Leadership and Development Education, King's College London
Dennis Jjuuko, Adjunct professor, UMass Boston
Uganda’s Kizza Besigye has been described as possibly the most arrested man in Africa. Besigye was once President Yoweri Museveni’s ally, and personal physician. He broke ranks with Museveni in 1999, and emerged as the most long-standing political opponent to the ageing president, who has run the country since 1986. For this, Besigye has been jailed, kept under house arrest, renditioned,…
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By Luisa T. Schneider, Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Independent Social Research Foundation
In the decades after Sierra Leone’s civil war (1991-2002), there was pressure on the west African country to demonstrate progress on gender equality. Laws were passed to fight domestic violence, rape and teen pregnancy. But drawing on colonial legal models, the reforms don’t always match social realities and in many cases are harming young people from poor communities. Punishment is being made more important than resolution or education.
Luisa T. Schneider is an anthropologist who has…
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By Melisa Benard-Valle, Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark
In sub-Saharan Africa, over 300,000 people are envenomed each year, leading to over 7,000 deaths and almost twice as many amputations.
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By Josie Geris, Reader in Hydrology, University of Aberdeen
Megan Klaar, Associate Professor, Hydroecology and Catchment Management, University of Leeds
After weeks of relentless rain and flooding, and even more forecast, 2025’s droughts and hosepipe bans feel like ancient history. But they shouldn’t.
The UK is increasingly caught between these wetter winters and warmer, drier summers. What if this year’s summer brings water shortages again? The seemingly endless rainfall causing flooding across the UK right now could help solve future summer drought problems…
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By Janet Godsell, Dean and Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy, Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University
Nikolai Kazantsev, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge
The real cost of what we buy is often hidden but demanding greater transparency from brands is one of the most powerful climate actions available to citizens.
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By Oliver Bray, Dean of Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University
Walking through the doors of London’s Charles Dickens Museum is always a special moment. This handsome, tall London townhouse – middle class by Victorian standards but practically palatial to visitors today – was the crucible in which a young, ascending Charles Dickens wrote himself into international superstardom.
It is here that The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas…
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By Amnesty International
Fifteen years after Libyans revolted against the repressive rule of Muammar al-Gaddafi, systemic impunity fuels crimes under international law and serious human rights violations by militias and armed groups while justice and reparations for survivors and relatives of victims remain elusive, Amnesty International said today. Instead of being brought to justice in fair proceedings, those […] The post Libya: 15 years after uprising against Gaddafi’s rule impunity reigns fueling ongoing abuses appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has appointed Tim Wilson, the only Liberal to win back a “teal” seat last year, to go head-to-head as shadow treasurer against the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers.
Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume will take on a major economic role as shadow minister for employment, industrial relations, productivity and deregulation, in an extensive reshuffle of the opposition frontbench.
Taylor said the new shadow frontbench blended “proven experience with the next generation of Coalition talent”. It was designed to do two main things “one, prosecute Labor’s failures,”…
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By Katie Edwards, Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation
Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol
Microscopic mites are part of human biology. Some live harmlessly in our pores but others can trigger allergies, inflammation or infection.
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