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Could Biden stop Netanyahu’s plans? A national security expert looks at Israel’s attack on Rafah

Palestinians crowd a street as smoke billows from Israeli strikes in Rafah on May 7, 2024. AFP via Getty Images     By Gregory F. Treverton, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences   Israel entered Rafah, a city that marks Gaza’s southern border crossing with Egypt, on May 7, 2024, launching a military offensive that the U.S. and others have cautioned Israel not to pursue. President Joe Biden warned […]

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South Africa

South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed

      By Ricardo Amansure, Stellenbosch University   The South African government’s Just Energy Transition Implementation Plan was launched in November 2023. It is a roadmap guiding the country away from reliance on coal-fired power towards renewable energy alternatives by 2027. It aims to include all communities and workers who will be affected by the energy transition. The plan says everyone should have access to electricity through a mix […]

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Africa

Cement is a big carbon emitter and quality is costly: a civil engineer explains

    By Elsabe Kearsley, University of Pretoria   Every year the world uses 4 billion tonnes of cement to make the concrete that goes into buildings and other infrastructure. It leaves a huge carbon footprint, and comes with other costs too. Civil engineering professor Elsabe Kearsley, who researches cement and concrete, tells us more about this basic ingredient of modern life and explains some of the work that’s being […]

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Africa

Off-grid solar sparks a lantern sales boom in Africa – report

      By Bonface Orucho, bird story agency   A new report has highlighted the continued popularity of lanterns powered by off-grid solar alternatives as more people opt for cleaner lighting options in Africa. The report ‘Global Off-Grid Solar Market Data July-December 2023’ by the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA), the global association for off-grid solar energy industry, is based on sales reported by 32 solar energy kit manufacturers […]

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Science & Technology

Science journalism in South Africa: social media is helping connect with new readers

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images, CC BY     By Sisanda Nkoala, University of the Western Cape     Science journalism is about taking complex academic research and turning it into easy-to-read content that is still accurate. Aside from informing readers through evidence-based journalism, it aims to make the wider public curious about scientific research. This article is an example of science journalism. As a media professor I conducted a study on […]

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Africa

African sci-fi: body hopping, artificial wombs and angry ghosts in a future Botswana

  By Nedine Moonsamy, University of Johannesburg   Tlotlo Tsamaase has already proved her talent for African science fiction. Her masterly short stories, one previously shortlisted for the Caine Prize, are helping put Botswana on the literary map. Her debut novel, Womb City, interweaves the mythological and digital expanses of Batswana culture in dystopian fashion. We encounter a distant future world in which women remain charged with ensuring their own […]

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Africa

Kenya floods: as the costs add up pressure mounts on a country in economic crisis

    By Timothy Njagi Njeru, Egerton University   There were early warnings that Kenya’s long rain season – between March and May – was going to bring above-normal rainfall. The extreme intensity of the rain has resulted in devastating floods in many parts of the country. Forty of the country’s 47 counties have been affected. More than 230 people have died and about 40,000 households, so far, have been […]

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Walking in African cities can be a miserable experience: Accra study shows planners ignore needs of pedestrians

    By Seth Asare Okyere, University of Arizona; Daniel Oviedo, UCL; Louis Kusi Frimpong, University of Environment and Sustainable Development ; Matthew Abunyewah, Charles Darwin University, and Stephen Leonard Mensah, University of Memphis     African cities aren’t welcoming places for pedestrians. Yet walking is free and, given the shortage of decent public transport, it’s often the only way for people to move around. More than 70% of Africa’s […]

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Sport

AI system to protect athletes from online abuse during Paris 2024

      A new AI-powered monitoring service will protect athletes and officials from online abuse at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 this summer. Following the launch of the Olympic AI Agenda, which outlines the envisioned impact that artificial intelligence can deliver for the Olympic Movement, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is demonstrating how AI can improve safeguarding in sport. Paris 2024 will mark the first time that AI will […]

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