The Conversation
East Africa must prepare for more extreme rainfall during the short rainy season – new study
11th March 2024 East Africa has recently had an unprecedented series of failed rains. But some rainy seasons are bringing the opposite: huge amounts of rainfall.... →
Happy smiling African children: why school tourism in Zimbabwe shouldn’t be encouraged
11th March 2024 A large, air-conditioned bus draws up outside a school. Tourists, most from Europe and the US, disembark, cameras at the ready. Some have brought... →
Women battle when trying to take climate change cases to court – South Africa and Nigeria study shows why
8th March 2024 Across domestic courts in Africa, climate cases have been decided in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, with some cases pending in Uganda. However,... →
South Africa: women play a key role in early childhood learning and care – but they need help accessing university
7th March 2024 In South Africa, the early childhood development sector is dominated by women who build creches from the ground up. These women offer services to... →
Dry weather hits southern Africa’s farmers, putting key maize supplies at risk: how to blunt the impact
6th March 2024 South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe have recently published reports indicating a potential decline in grain harvest because of intense El... →
Cost-of-living crisis: experts share 3 survival tips
5th March 2024 The price increases for essential goods such as food, petrol and household utilities are a global concern, but the region most hurt by the surge in... →
Big companies, like Nestlé, are funding health research in South Africa - why this is wrong
4th March 2024 In 2021, the director of the African Research University Alliance Centre of Excellence in Food Security at the University of Pretoria was appointed... →
Ali Hassan Mwinyi: the Tanzanian former president who oversaw the transition to market economy
4th March 2024 Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzania’s second president who has died aged 98, pushed through tough economic and political reforms that transformed the East... →
DRC-Rwanda crisis: what’s needed to prevent a regional war
1st March 2024 In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South African, Burundian and Tanzanian troops are fighting against the Rwandan army, which... →
South Africa’s business students want their own industry superheroes and success stories in the syllabus – study
1st March 2024 In the past few years there’s been much discussion globally about the need to decolonise education. Decolonisation is the process of undoing the... →