By Marc Souris, chercheur, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
The current outbreak in Senegal is one of many that happen in cycles across Africa in the past 50 years.
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By Anthony Diala, Professor of African legal pluralism and Director, Centre for Legal Integration in Africa, University of the Western Cape
South African actress and businesswoman Enhle Mbali Mlotshwa has won a victory in the Johannesburg High Court. It ruled that her customary marriage to music star Nkosinathi “Black Coffee” Maphumulo was valid, declaring their later civil marriage and antenuptial contract null and void. Mlotshwa is now legally entitled to half…
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By Megan Malherbe, Research Assistant Scientific Collection Institute of Evolutionary Medicine Faculty of Science, University of Zurich
Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ancestors lived and survived. Habitat shapes everything, from what food was available, to where water could be found, to how predators and prey interacted.
For decades, scientists studying South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind have tried to reconstruct the landscape in which species like Australopithecus…
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By Jessamyn R. Abel, Professor of Asian Studies and History, Penn State
A visitor to Japan who wanders into a sumo tournament might be forgiven for thinking they had intruded upon a religious ceremony.
Tournaments begin with a line of burly men wearing little more than elaborately decorated aprons walking in a line onto a raised earthen stage. Their names are called as they circle around a ring made of partially buried bales of rice straw. Turning toward the center, they clap, lift their aprons, raise their arms upward, and then exit without a word.
Then two of those…
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
One American company called Strategy owns more than 3% of all bitcoin in existence. Its executive chairman, Michael Saylor, is the pioneer of a new business model where publicly listed companies buy cryptocurrency assets to hold on their balance sheet.
Strategy, formerly called MicroStrategy, first bought US$250 million (£187 million) worth of bitcoin in mid-2020 during the depths of the COVID economic slump. As it continued to buy bitcoin, its share price soared, and it kept buying. As of October 2025, Strategy…
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By Sergey V. Popov, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Cardiff University
Donald Trump has finally decided to hit Russia with sanctions – the first package he has imposed since he came back to the White House in January.
The sanctions target Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia’s two largest oil companies, as a retaliation for Vladimir Putin’s refusal to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine. The announcement came in the wake of the decision to call…
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By Peter Lee, Professor of Applied Ethics and Director, Security and Risk Research, University of Portsmouth
Weather conditions on the front lines are making it increasingly difficult for Ukraine to use drones effectively as winter approaches.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the arbitrary inclusion of 32 individuals, including Baloch activists, as “proscribed persons” under section 11-EE of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, which places severe limits and undue restrictions on their human rights, Babu Ram Pant, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for South Asia, said: “The arbitrary manner in which these individuals, including peaceful Baloch […] The post Pakistan: Inclusion of Baloch activists on terrorist watchlist an affront to human rights appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Benin bronzes looted in the past and returned to Nigeria by Germany are examined during a handing over ceremony in Abuja, December 20, 2022. © 2022 Olamikan Gbemiga/AP Photo Last week, German federal, state, and local authorities adopted Common Guidelines on the handling of cultural assets and human remains from colonial contexts. Despite the welcome efforts to regulate the returns cultural belongings and ancestral remains from colonial contexts, the guidelines appear to go out of the way to distance such returns from international human rights standards on colonial…
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By Lewis Faulk, Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy, American University
Mirae Kim, Associate Professor of Nonprofit Studies, George Mason University
About one-third of U.S. nonprofit service providers experienced a disruption in their government funding in the first half of 2025.
That’s what we found when we teamed up with Urban Institute researchers to collect nationally representative survey data from 2,737 nonprofits across the…
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