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When bad rulers go, do their families face justice and is there reform? Six African case studies
When authoritarian rule ends, the leader may leave office, but the ruling family can remain politically consequential.
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ScienceFarming subsidies in Zimbabwe do help spread crop risk, but impact on income is limited – research
In rural development, the conventional wisdom has for decades been simple: households are better off when they have more than one way of making a living. Diversify, spread your risk, and you’ll be more resilient.
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Brambles are a problem weed in South Africa but researchers are closer to finding a natural enemy to manage them
Invasive alien brambles have been spreading across South Africa since the early 1900s, having come from North America and Europe. All brambles fall within the genus Rubus.
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Snakebites are a far bigger problem than we knew: new study maps the hidden dangers
Not every snakebite injects venom. When venom enters the body, however, it can cause snake envenoming. This is a potentially fatal condition and it mostly affects poor rural communities across tropical and subtropical regions who don’t have…
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Sudan’s death toll in 2025 could be as high as 100,000: how we did the count
Estimates of the number of people directly killed in Sudan’s civil war vary widely, in part because counting casualties in active conflict zones is extremely difficult.