Outbreaks of cholera have become almost endemic in many Nigerian states. The main reason for the spike is poor infrastructure, particularly sanitation, as well as a public health system that desperately needs investment. Doyin Ogunyemi sets out what the government needs to do to address the problem.
South Africa has very strong mechanisms in place to provide oversight of its security services. But they’re dormant. As long as this remains the case, warns Laurie Nathan, the country’s spies will be loyal to politicians and not to citizens and the constitution, posing a severe threat to democracy.
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Mauritian physics students hard at work during the project’s testing phase.
Mauritius Institute of Education
Yashwant Ramma, Mauritius Institute of Education
The affective domain -- motivation, interest and values and their inter-relationships -- forms an integral component in facilitating learners’ construction of physics knowledge.
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Politics + Society
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Laurie Nathan, University of Pretoria
South Africa's intelligence services operate secretly and with minimal oversight. So citizens will probably never know exactly what they are up to.
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Science + Technology
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Yashwant Ramma, Mauritius Institute of Education
The affective domain -- motivation, interest and values and their inter-relationships -- forms an integral component in facilitating learners’ construction of physics knowledge.
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Arts + Culture
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Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Gulf University for Science and Technology
Kitsch has slowly become the main cultural reference for all that surrounds us, and thrives in propaganda.
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From our international editions
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John P DiMoia, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
The Korean peninsula has a lengthy history of exchanging insults.
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John Colley, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
How the ride-sharing company responds to a licence refusal in the UK capital will show if its culture has genuinely changed.
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Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University
While the Maori Party got wiped out in this weekend's New Zealand election, there's still a Maori presence in the country's political system. That's why Canadian First Nations should take note.
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