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Africa

Foreign healthcare volunteers in Africa can harm local relationships – Zambian study

        By James Wintrup, Chr. Michelsen Institute     Thousands of global health volunteers, most from the United States, travel to Africa every year. These volunteers come from diverse backgrounds and have varying levels of experience. They include surgeons, anaesthesiologists, nurses and medical students. They arrive with the ambition to improve health outcomes in Africa and learn about “global health”. In my research I have studied the […]

today6 June, 2024

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Business / Economics

How Dangote refinery is flipping the script on Africa’s oil

      By Bonface Orucho, bird story agency     Nigeria's Dangote refinery, a 650,000 barrels per day facility, has recently exported its first-ever jet fuel cargo to Europe, a move that signals not just growing production, but Africa's potential to become a major player in the global petroleum market. S&P Global in a report on May 30 explains that Bp, a British multinational oil and gas company, transported […]

today6 June, 2024

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Africa

Africa enters into multi-country visa regime

        By Conrad Onyango, bird story agency     Africa is moving towards a multi-country visa system, with individual countries and regional blocs working to remove their borders to promote intra-Africa tourism. Southern African countries are the latest to signal their intent to allow tourists to explore more diverse offerings across multiple destinations using a single visa. Leaders from Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, which comprise […]

today6 June, 2024

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South Africa

South Africa’s election results present 3 options for government: all are fraught with danger

        By Philippe Burger, University of the Free State     South Africans do not have a deep culture of coalitions. There have been a few coalitions at provincial and municipal levels but most of these were quite unstable. The outcome of the 2024 national election up-ended 30 years of electoral dominance by the African National Congress. The party garnered only 40.18% of the vote while the […]

today6 June, 2024

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South Africa

South African voters shifted support in 2024 but that’s nothing new – surveys after previous elections showed party loyalty was fluid

      By Carin Runciman, The University of Edinburgh and Marcel Paret, University of Utah   To the casual observer, the outcome of South Africa’s 2024 national and provincial elections, which herald a new era of national coalition governance, may appear to represent new electoral trends. But that is not the case. While the shift in voting patterns is certainly the largest the country has seen since democratic elections […]

today6 June, 2024

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Health / Medical

For women with antenatal depression, micronutrients might help them and their babies – new study

Getty Images     By Julia J Rucklidge, University of Canterbury; Elena Moltchanova, University of Canterbury; Roger Mulder, University of Otago, and Siobhan A Campbell, University of Canterbury     Antenatal depression affects 15% to 21% of pregnant women worldwide. It can influence birth outcomes and children’s development, as well as increase the risk of post-natal depression. Current treatments like therapy can be inaccessible and antidepressants can carry risks for developing […]

today5 June, 2024

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Business / Economics

By not mining vital minerals, NZ is ‘offshoring its own environmental footprint’ – is that fair?

Getty Images     By Martin Brook, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau     When Resources Minister Shane Jones recently unveiled his draft strategy for mineral mining, it was quickly criticised by the Labour opposition as “taking New Zealand backwards”. One environmental group even called it a “love letter to mining companies”. But the government’s ambition to double the sector’s export value to NZ$2 billion by 2035, with flow-on effects […]

today5 June, 2024

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Lifestyle

Early childhood education was largely missing from the budget, undermining other education spending

        By Marek Tesar, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau     Despite a NZ$1 billion increase in spending on education in the 2024 budget, there was a noticeable absence of any substantial investment in early childhood education (ECE). This contrasts starkly with the money put aside for primary and secondary education, particularly in areas such as literacy. The budget allocates $191 million over four years for […]

today5 June, 2024

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World

Modi’s narrow win suggests Indian voters saw through religious rhetoric, opting instead to curtail his political power

Supporters of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party dance at a party office in Guwahati, India, during counting of India’s national election on June 4, 2024. AP Photo/Anupam Nath     By Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University     India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, had hoped for a landslide victory in the country’s six-week general election – the largest display of democracy, by far, in a year of voting around the […]

today5 June, 2024