Arab League chief appoints personal envoy for Sudan
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy has appointed Zaid al-Sabban as his personal envoy for Sudanese affairs to bolster efforts to…
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Africa’s rhinos often get the spotlight – but Indonesia’s two rhino species are far closer to extinction
Michelle Campbell-Ward, University of Sydney Small, hairy and cheekily charismatic. Those words sprung to mind when I first met a…
Ghana is stepping up efforts to return to Olympic football
Ghana is stepping up efforts to return to Olympic football for the first time since 2004. Officials from the GOC…
Refugee camps explained: why South Africa has avoided them
Franzisca Zanker, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and Ulrike Krause, University of Münster South Africa started processing undocumented migrants at a temporary…
Africa’s Greater Horn region is facing a looming polycrisis fueled by conflict, prices, climate and disease
Daniel Maxwell, Tufts University; Alex de Waal, Tufts University; Luka Kuol, University of Juba; Merry Fitzpatrick, Tufts University, and Peter…
Yemen’s Houthis are bringing their war to Saudi Arabia – and reframing the narrative of being an Iranian proxy
Laurent Bonnefoy, Sciences Po A deadly Houthi attack on Riyadh’s international airport has highlighted how the Yemeni group is reframing…
Yemen is spiralling into another civil war that could swiftly engulf in the entire region
Amin Saikal, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University The Middle East has seen many explosions of…
WHO monitors Kenya Ebola case
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it is working closely with the Kenyan government to intensify control measures…
Rising CO₂ is making African savanna grasses grow more – what this means for grazing, fire and carbon storage
Kimberley Simpson, University of Sheffield Plants use carbon dioxide (CO₂) in photosynthesis to make the carbohydrates they need to grow.…
17 killed in plane crash in DR Congo
A plane crash in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 17 people, including two of the…