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Corruption affects a government’s ability to get projects completed and stops its ability to transfer resources to people. A fertile environment is created for corruption when budgeting is done in secret. Tolu Olarewaju and Vanessa Oakes explain the success of a project in Nigeria. By demanding a transparent budgeting process and then mobilising people to monitor the implementation of government projects, service delivery improved and corrupt practices were reduced.
British members of parliament voted on a series of amendments to Theresa May’s Brexit deal. Louise Thompson explains what we know and what we don’t after quite a confusing series of events.
A thriving population of wild cats has been discovered at an industrial site near Johannesburg in South Africa. Sam Williams sets out how a team of scientists learnt about a thriving community of servals that had made its home in the shadow of a giant petrochemical plant.
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Corruption is rife in the awarding of contracts for infrastructure projects, such as roads, in Nigeria.
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Tolu Olarewaju, Staffordshire University
There is a huge amount of secrecy around the budgeting process at every level of the Nigerian government.
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May is charting a clear course – back to Brussels to re-open negotiations.
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Louise Thompson, University of Manchester
MPs want the prime minister to get back to the negotiating table, but will anyone from the EU be willing to meet her?
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Energy + Environment
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Sam Williams, Durham University; Lourens Swanepoel, University of Venda
A high number of carnivores have been discovered at a huge industrial site in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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Steve Carver, University of Leeds
Zooming in on deforestation and other wild habitat loss can help us work out how best to protect wilderness.
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Wataru Toyokawa, University of St Andrews
Humans are social animals who like to communicate and copy each other. But key to this collective intelligence is flexibility and a little non-conformity.
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Richard Ellis, University of Reading; Alastair Culham, University of Reading; Donald Zulu, University of Reading
Lusala, a wild yam that many in Zambia rely on for consumption and trade, is gradually taking longer to find due to deforestation.
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Arts + Culture
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Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University
The tragedy of the Quebec City mosque shootings which killed six men continues to reverberate. But Islamophobia has not been curbed: it is at its highest rate ever.
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Robert Morrison, Queen's University, Ontario
Planned only a few days earlier, the Jan. 30, 1969 rooftop concert by the Beatles was their last. It is fitting the show included Billy Preston who symbolized their global collaborative efforts.
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