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  • A farmer cultivates teff in Doyogena District, Ethiopia. Credit: ILRI/Georgina Smith.
    ClimateEconomyEthiopiaTop story

    “Genetic havoc”: Five reasons to be concerned about gene-edited teff

    By Million Belay
    May 3, 2023
    A US research centre has created a new variety of teff, raising unanswered questions over its safety, ownership, and climate implications. Last month, the ...
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  • View of Lake Kivu at Bukavu, South Kivu, DRC. Photo courtesy: MONUSCO/Abel Kavanagh
    African Politics NowEditor's PicksGreat Lakes Region

    Lines through the lake: Why the Congo-Rwanda border can’t be redrawn

    By Gillian Mathys
    May 2, 2023
    Long-standing cultural affinities of Rwandophones in the Great Lakes may appear to bolster Kigali’s historical claims to parts of eastern Congo, but it’s more ...
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    Farmworkers feel heat as SA wine industry eyes climate change

    By Matthew Hirsch & Chris de Beer-Procter
    April 27, 2023
    As vineyards strategise to keep the famous export flowing, farmworkers – seven of whom died recently of heat stroke – fear more extreme conditions. ...
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    BotswanaEconomyEditor's PicksMINING

    Why is Botswana rethinking its deal with De Beers?

    By Marisa Lourenço
    April 25, 2023
    Christened ‘Debswana’, its 50-year-old mining pact with De Beers is showing signs of strain – for some rather unexpected reasons. When on 12 February ...
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    OPINIONPoliticsRwandaTop story

    Rwanda, too, needs to make amends

    By Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
    April 25, 2023
    Rwanda accuses Congo-Kinshasa of being unable to put its house in order; it, too, must deal with the refugee question, 245,000 of whom are ...
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  • A wildfire around Cape Town, South Africa, in 2009. Credit: warrenski.
    ClimateSouth Africa

    The risk of extreme wildfires around Cape Town has nearly doubled

    By Stefaan Conradie & Zhongwei Liu
    April 24, 2023
    Our study suggests climate change has significantly increased the likelihood of extreme wildfires. But there are ways to mitigate the risks. Across the globe, ...
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  • OPINIONTop storyUganda

    Open letter from leading scientists and academics to President Museveni: “the science is clear – homosexuality is natural and normal”

    By Various co-signatories
    April 20, 2023
    Dear President Museveni, You recently made a call for a scientific opinion to establish if homosexuality is natural, or learned – to help you ...
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  • Poster of the legendary Thomas Mapfumo/Oliver Mtukudzi concerts in 2013. Image courtesy: Diana Jeater.
    CultureEditor's PicksZimbabwe

    Why ZANU-PF still can’t dance to chimurenga music

    By Mwai Daka
    April 19, 2023
    ZANU-PF’s aversion to protest music only confirms the lyrical power of a line of artists from Marley and Mapfumo to Winky D.  Prominent Zimbabwean ...
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  • The men in suits are back in their combat fatigues: Composite picture of head of the Rapid Support Forces, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Hemedti', and Lt-Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who has led Sudan since 2019. Courtesy Wikicommons, and credit for Hemedti photo (Russian Federation), and Burhan (Govt of Azerbaijan).
    Conflict & CrisisSudanTop story

    What Will Happen in Sudan?

    By Nick Westcott
    April 19, 2023
    The current crisis exposes the motives of the men with guns. It requires, paradoxically, the intervention of a distracted international community that has done ...
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  • The National Elections Commission, Monrovia, Liberia.
    ElectionsLiberiaPoliticsTop story

    Is Liberia heading towards an electoral crisis?

    By Robtel Neajai Pailey and Oscar Bloh
    April 15, 2023
    A suspicious census, a cash-strapped electoral commission and voter eligibility based on phenotype signal a dubious October election.  Six months before high-stakes presidential and ...
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