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Opinion Pieces

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Africa

Kelvin Kiptum: the Kenyan runner who redefined what it takes to win marathons

  By Wycliffe W. Njororai Simiyu, Stephen F. Austin State University   Kenyan athletics has lost Kelvin Kiptum, the marathon world record holder who was destined to be the first person to run the race in under two hours. The runner, aged only 24, died on 10 February in a car accident that also claimed his coach Gervais Hakizimana, 37, from Rwanda. The accident occurred near one of the high-altitude […]

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Lifestyle

‘Self-love’ might seem selfish. But done right, it’s the opposite of narcissism

Bart Larue/Unsplash Ian Robertson, University of Wollongong “To love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron” said psychonalyst Carl Jung. Some may argue this social media generation does not seem to struggle with loving themselves. But is the look-at-me-ism so easily found on TikTok and Instagram the kind of self-love we need in order to flourish? The language […]

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200 million voters, 820,000 polling stations and 10,000 candidates: Indonesia’s massive election, by the numbers

    By Stephen Sherlock, Australian National University   Indonesians are going to the polls to elect a new president on Wednesday. There are three candidates running, alongside their vice presidential candidates. According to opinion polls, the favourite is Prabowo Subianto, leader of the Greater Indonesia Party (Gerindra), a populist and nationalist party he founded in 2008. A former army general, Prabowo has already stood unsuccessfully for president twice before. He […]

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Africa

Nigeria’s popular wara cheese has a short shelf life: we’ve found a way to keep it fresh for longer

  By Malomo Adekunbi Adetola, Obafemi Awolowo University   Cheese is a highly nutritious food produced in hundreds of varieties around the world. It’s all made by fermenting milk but the results range widely in flavour, texture and end uses. The global market value of cheese was about US$83.4 billion in 2022 and is projected to exceed US$120 billion in 2028. In Nigeria, the most popular cheese is wara, a […]

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Environment

Medicinal plants help keep children healthy in South Africa: 61 species were recorded

    By Tshepiso Ndhlovu, University of Mpumalanga; Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, North-West University; Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu, North-West University, and Wilfred Otang-Mbeng, University of Mpumalanga   In 2021, almost 33 of every 1,000 South African children under five years old died. This under-five mortality rate is far worse than in similar middle-income countries such as Brazil (14.4 per 1,000 births), Cuba (5 per 1,000), India (30.6), Indonesia (22.2) and Egypt (19.0). […]

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Africa

Morocco dinosaur discovery gives clues on why they went extinct

    By Nicholas R. Longrich, University of Bath   66 million years ago, the last dinosaurs vanished from Earth. We’re still trying to understand why. New fossils of abelisaurs – distant relatives of the tyrannosaurs – from north Africa suggest that African dinosaurs remained diverse up to the very end. And that suggests their demise came suddenly, with the impact of a giant asteroid. The causes of the mass […]

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Business / Economics

Bank of Namibia expected to cut repo rate by 25bps as inflation cooling

    By Josef Kefas Sheehama At its first Monetary Policy Committee meeting of 2024, on the 14 February 2024, the Bank of Namibia is expected to cut its Repo Rate by 25 basis points. All of Namibian’s banks now expect the Bank of Namibia to cut its Repo Rate target by 0.25 basis points on the 14 February 2024, which would bring its key lending rate to 7.50%. This […]

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Migrating animals face collapsing numbers – major new UN report

    By Joseph Ogutu, University of Hohenheim   The world’s travelling animals – marine turtles, whales, sharks, elephants, reptiles, wild cats, birds, and even insects – have entered a period of sharp decline, new research has found. The first ever State of the World’s Migratory Species report, released today by the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, showed that the conservation status of […]

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The San people of southern Africa: where ethics codes for researching indigenous people could fail them

    By Stasja Koot, Wageningen University   There is a long and often complicated history of researchers studying Indigenous people. In 1999, the education scholar Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, in her book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, emphasised the colonial character of much research. She warned that it brings with it a new wave of exploration, discovery, exploitation and appropriation. Well into the 20th century, researchers depicted groups like the […]

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