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Barely two weeks after the UN lifted sanctions against it, Eritrea is set to take over the chair of an Africa-EU forum set up to fight migrant smuggling and human trafficking. Martin Plaut points out the contradiction: refugees and asylum seekers will be placed in the hands of an Eritrean regime that is notorious for its human rights abuses.
It's a sadly common occurrence all over the world: teachers using violence against their pupils. But what drives particular teachers to behave in this way, while others don't? Katherine G Merrill unpacks the answers provided by a study in Uganda, where it's common for teachers to hit pupils even though corporal punishment has been illegal for years.
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Migrants arriving on the island of Lampedusa, southern Italy in April 2011.
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Martin Plaut, School of Advanced Study
It is difficult to see how the EU can allow its key African migration work to be supervised by Eritrea.
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Violence against students is very common in Uganda, even though corporal punishment was banned.
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Katherine G Merrill, Johns Hopkins University
The UN has declared all violence against children a violation of human rights. But it still happens even in schools.
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Arts + Culture
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Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Stellenbosch University
Twenty years after the final report of South Africa's Truth Commission, dealing with the past will always remain "unfinished business".
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Sarah Jilani, University of Cambridge
It's hailed as one of the greatest works of fiction to emerge from Africa. But Things Fall Apart was written in English, sparking debate about the colonisation of language.
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Politics + Society
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Glenda Daniels, University of the Witwatersrand
The transition to digital media is messy, and sometimes bloody -- and beat journalism is among the victims.
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Environment + Energy
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Sue Nicolson, University of Pretoria
The world's most widely used herbicide poses a threat to honey bees.
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Business + Economy
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Jannie Rossouw, University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa can't afford its national airline anymore -- nor can it afford to close it down. What's the next step?
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From our international editions
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Michael J Porter, University of Central Lancashire
We previously thought mitochondrial DNA could only be passed on by mothers.
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Clare Oliver-Williams, University of Cambridge
Having children is linked to a greater risk of heart attacks and stroke, but kids aren't completely bad for your health.
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George Seidel, Colorado State University
Chinese researcher He Jiankui told a spellbound audience how he created gene-edited babies. With a couple of revealing slides, we can see what he did and speculate what health problems might ensue.
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