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The past year has been an annus horribilis for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The country has been tainted by recurring regional conflicts brought on by delayed elections and a president who wants to cling to power. Reuben Loffman explains why President Joseph Kabila must step down or risk plunging the country into full blown civil war.
One year has passed since South Africa registered an HIV prevention drug to prevent becoming infected. Sinead Delany-Moretlwe and Saiqa Mullick writes that the drug has the potential to change the course of the HIV epidemic, if it’s given to the people who need it most.
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Congolese soldiers arrest anti-government protester in North Kivu province.
Kenny Katombe/Reuters
Reuben Loffman, Queen Mary University of London
President Joseph Kabila was supposed to step down at the end of his term in 2016. By clinging on to power he threw the Democratic Republic of Congo into a vicious cycle of deadly conflict.
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Health + Medicine
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Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, University of the Witwatersrand; Saiqa Mullick, University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa's data rollout of its pre-exposure prophylaxis shows that there is a relatively slow, but increasing, uptake. However, more needs to be done to target young women.
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Arts + Culture
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Vashna Jagarnath, Rhodes University
Russian revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya, like other leading women in the new Stalin-led state, was marginalised. But in her case, because she was Lenin's widow.
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Politics + Society
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Siphamandla Zondi, University of Pretoria
Zimbabweans have every right to celebrate the end of Robert Mugabe's long and disastrous reign, but they would be wrong to assume that this is the end of their political problems.
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Environment + Energy
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Xikombiso Mbhenyane, Stellenbosch University; Irene Labuschagne, Stellenbosch University
South Africa has problems with hunger and obesity and both are linked to malnutrition. But solutions like taxes, education, regulating food advertising and labelling can help the problem.
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From our international editions
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Anny Boc, Freie Universität Berlin
China is reluctant to be more active in dealing with Pyongyang for fear of consolidating the US take over in the region.
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Chris Allen, University of Birmingham
The US president has lent legitimacy to a small group of right-wing extremists by sharing its content.
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Ben Carrington, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Much of the Harry and Meghan coverage has ignored the royal family's complicated history with race and "blood" and its insistence on continuing outdated traditions.
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