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The sprawling Serengeti-Mara plain that borders Tanzania and Kenya is under threat. Joseph Ogutu explains how human activities are putting huge pressure on the area's environment, natural resources and wildlife. Meanwhile, Cyril Grueter describes the risks taken by Rwanda's vulnerable gorilla population in the animals' search for sodium-rich crops.
For his part, Jeffrey W Paller discusses why the success of cities' sustainable development policies depends so much on the residents in the very neighbourhoods most affected by climate change. And Julien Benoit introduces a new fossil find that could shed light on how ancient sabre toothed predators actually used their terrifying teeth.
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Top Stories
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Joseph Ogutu, University of Hohenheim
Intense and extensive changes mean that the Serengeti-Mara area's wildlife has an unsure future.
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Cyril Grueter, University of Western Australia
In Rwanda gorillas have been leaving protected areas to raid sodium rich crops.
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Jeffrey W Paller, University of San Francisco
Focusing on everyday politics can help explain why powerful interest groups undermine policies that might improve the public good.
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Julien Benoit, University of the Witwatersrand
The discovery of a fossilised large predator is a rare event that offers insight into these beasts from the past.
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Politics + Society
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Dounia Mahlouly, SOAS, University of London
Algeria's elite has built its legitimacy on a distorted memory of the war of independence.
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Melinda Adams, James Madison University ; John Scherpereel, James Madison University
In many African states power is concentrated in the executive branch. That's why women's representation in cabinet matters.
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Amanda Grzyb, Western University
Although many years have passed, the Rwandan genocide still has much to teach us about the centrality of media in cases of state violence.
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Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba, University of Winnipeg
Stories about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have been evolving as descent narratives telling about journeys through hell.
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Business + Economy
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Andoni Maiza Larrarte, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea; Gloria Claudio-Quiroga, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
The deal between the DRC and the Chinese company Sicomines didn't take into account how the Congolese people would benefit.
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Channing Arndt, CGIAR System Organization; Claudia Ringler, The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Cyclone Idai hit poor countries the hardest and shows why disaster resilience is a necessity.
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Podcasts
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Ozayr Patel, The Conversation
To fight fake news, it's crucial that science is spread in an understandable way.
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Ozayr Patel, The Conversation
In the era of fake news, science can play a crucial role.
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