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Africa

Pro basketball teams shine at the NBA-backed BAL Kalahari Conference

  By bird story agency   South Africa's SunBet Arena in Pretoria successfully concluded the group stage matches of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) on Sunday (March 17) as the inaugural Kalahari Conference ignited fierce competition and provided electrifying hoop action. Despite Burundi's club Dynamo withdrawing from the competition, other conference matches went on as planned, with Morocco’s Fath Union Sport de Rabat emerging at the top of the conference, […]

today19 March, 2024

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World

Toward a World Without Nuclear Weapons

At the United Nations, the 13th conference on facilitating the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Sept. 22, 2023. The essayist, the foreign minister of Japan, will preside over a UN Security Council session on March 18, concentrating on working toward a nuclear-free world by building on the momentum from the G7 Hiroshima Summit in 2023. UN PHOTO     Prospects for a world without nuclear weapons are […]

today19 March, 2024

World

Palestine Never Had a Chance for Statehood, Legally Speaking, an Expert Argues

Ardi Imseis, a legal scholar and former United Nations expert, argues in a new book that the UN’s long history of managing the international legal status of Palestine has often reinforced its subjugation. Here, the territory’s flag in a battle between Palestine and Israel. WWW.STORYBOARDTHAT.COM     By Darsen Hover   Did Palestine ever have a chance to gain its full rights as a state? In his new book, “The United […]

today19 March, 2024

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World

Vladimir Putin’s gold strategy explains why sanctions against Russia have failed

    By Robert Huish, Dalhousie University   There are more than 16,000 sanctions imposed against Russia. Yet the Russian economy and war machine grew by 3.6 per cent in 2023 and is projected to grow another 2.6 per cent in 2024. Nearly six per cent of Russia’s gross domestic product goes towards military spending. At a time when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scrambling to acquire arms, funds and […]

today19 March, 2024

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Business / Economics

Donor-advised funds: US regulators are scrambling to catch up with the boom in these charitable giving accounts

DAFs more or less operate as a mini foundation. Wong Yu Liang/Moment via Getty Images   By Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University   A revolution in charitable giving is underway due to the growth of donor-advised funds in the United States. Known widely as DAFs, these financial accounts are designated for charitable giving. Donors can get an immediate tax deduction by putting money or other assets into the accounts, […]

today19 March, 2024

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Africa

Press freedom in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda: what journalists have to say about doing their jobs

  By Karen McIntyre, Virginia Commonwealth University and Meghan Sobel Cohen, Regis University   A majority of the world’s population has experienced a decline in press freedom in recent years, according to a UN report. In east Africa, the results are mixed and debatable. In Rwanda, both international press freedom rankings and journalists on the ground say press freedom has increased over the past 10 years. In neighbouring Uganda, both […]

today19 March, 2024

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Uncategorized

Malawi and maize: prices have spiked on the back of bad weather and trade bans

    By Simon Roberts, University of Johannesburg and Namhla Landani, University of Johannesburg   Maize is the leading staple food in Malawi and crucial for food security. Typically, local production from smallholder farmers meets and exceeds annual requirements of around 3 million metric tonnes. The country, however, is currently facing a crisis with 4.4 million Malawians (22% of the population) being food insecure. This is due firstly to a […]

today19 March, 2024

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Africa

New ecoregion proposed for Southern Africa’s threatened ‘sky islands’

  By Ryan Truscott   There is an “inland archipelago” of mountains stretching across southern Malawi and northern Mozambique — a chain of hard granite inselbergs lifted high above the surrounding landscape as it weathered down over millions of years. These “sky islands”, as they’re also known, are topped with high-altitude grasslands and evergreen forests and watered by cool moist winds from the Indian Ocean to the east. A group […]

today18 March, 2024

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Environment

Toilet paper: Environmentally impactful, but alternatives are rolling out

    By Petro Kotzé   Toilet paper is so common in some countries it’s only noticed when it’s not there, as exemplified by the panic buying that prompted shortages when the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. Thought to be in use in China since the sixth century, inventor Joseph C. Gayetty patented the first U.S. commercial “medicated paper” in the 1850s. Since then, demand has soared in many places, bolstered by rising population, […]

today18 March, 2024