Editor's note
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On the first visit to Africa by a senior Trump administration official US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is midway through a week-long trip covering five countries. His first stop was Ethiopia where he met senior Ethiopian officials and African Union leaders in Addis Ababa. John Stremlau argues that Tillerson’s main focus is likely to be counterterrorism, and that few major benefits are likely to flow from his tour.
China’s President Xi Jinping could be in office for a while after the country’s leadership voted to remove presidential term limits. David Kiwuwa warns that African despots who want to cling to power might want to follow suit.
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Thabo Leshilo
Politics + Society Editor
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Top stories
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John J Stremlau, University of the Witwatersrand
The US Secretary of State's mission to Africa will produce few benefits for the continent or for US-Africa relations.
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David E Kiwuwa, Princeton University
The Chinese Communist Party's decision to remove presidential term limits could be a signal to African despots.
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Health + Medicine
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Jeremy Schwartz, Yale University; Mari Armstrong-Hough, Yale University
In Uganda, essential medicines are not being stocked at facilities that need them most. This includes drugs to treat chronic diseases.
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Andrew Githeko, Kenya Medical Research Institute; Ednah Ototo, Kenya Medical Research Institute
Kenya has managed to reduce the number of malaria cases in parts of the country. But this, in turn, has led to immunity levels dropping.
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Business + Economy
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Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg
Land expropriation without compensation in South Africa will be resolved by opening up the economy and addressing inequalities.
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Ben Cousins, University of the Western Cape
South Africa's land policy is flailing around in the dark, with the haziest of understandings of how well or how badly land reform is doing.
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Politics + Society
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Hillary Musarurwa, Durban University of Technology
Youth participation in elections and governance processes in Zimbabwe is low.
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Ran Greenstein, University of the Witwatersrand
Meeting the challenges from the opposition will strengthen the ANC's dominance. How well its new leadership copes will become clearer over the next few months.
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David E Kiwuwa, Princeton University
Gabon's Ali Bongo Ondimba has watched over constitutional changes that have given him far reaching powers.
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Laura Alfers, Rhodes University
Adequate and quality childcare determines women’s participation in the labour force and the type of work they can take on.
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Arts + Culture
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Liani Maasdorp, University of Cape Town
The decision by South Africa's Film and Publication Board to ban the film Inxeba has been widely criticised.
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Roberto Castillo, Lingnan University
China's offensive 'blackface' skit intended to highlight the positive aspects of China-Africa relations, has done the opposite.
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Science + Technology
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Jessica Leigh Thornton, Nelson Mandela University
Insights and approaches drawn from anthropology could be a useful part of the toolkit for a cop trying to catch a killer.
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Chrisna Gouws, North-West University
Numerous traditional African medicines are undeniably beneficial in treating disease or maintaining good health.
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Aviwe Matiwane, Rhodes University; Rosemary Prevec, Rhodes University
Plants, in their fossil forms, can reveal a great deal about past environments and climates.
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Environment + Energy
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Leila Harris, University of British Columbia; Jiaying Zhao, University of British Columbia; Martine Visser, University of Cape Town
Cape Town is testing new strategies to nudge domestic users into reducing their water use.
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Mary Galvin, University of Johannesburg
South Africa is a water-scarce country where inequity and a lack of fairness and justice pervades water distribution.
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Education
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Peter Ngure, African Population and Health Research Center
Universities could mine alumni databases to improve individual institutions' work - and raise funds.
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Sioux McKenna, Rhodes University
Social class plays a huge role in people's experiences of accessing and succeeding in higher education.
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