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Egypt has historically adopted an aggressive approach to claims over water from the River Nile, often with threats of military action against upstream countries. Salam Abdulqadir Abdulrahman explains why Cairo’s insistence on colonial-era agreements flies in the face of today’s realities. Firstly, the Nile is shrinking and secondly, countries to the south are entitled to demand an agreement that reflects present day political realities.
Hipsters are often affiliated with progressive political and cultural movements built on socially liberal ideals. But Melissa Tandiwe Myambo writes that while they appear progressive, this isn’t always apparent when they move into lower-income urban neighbourhoods. In fact, their behaviour has parallels with the practices and ideologies of the settler-colonialism of earlier centuries.
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The Nile River during sunset in Luxor, Egypt.
EPA-EFE/Khaled Elfiqi
Salam Abdulqadir Abdulrahman, University of Human Development, Iraq
The threat to use force to defend Egypt's right to water from the Nile has been a common theme through successive governments.
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Arts + Culture
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Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, University of the Witwatersrand
Hipsters exhibit a nostalgia for the past that echoes past right-leaning political movements around the world.
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Environment + Energy
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Wilhelm de Beer, University of Pretoria; Trudy Paap, University of Pretoria
A tree-killing beetle has invaded South Africa. This is what should be done.
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Business + Economy
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Jannie Rossouw, University of the Witwatersrand
One of the main lessons from the VBS Bank collapse in South Africa is that audit reports need to be treated with a degree of circumspection. In some cases they will require independent verification.
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From our international editions
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Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida
Born Farrokh Bulsara, Mercury came from a Parsi family that practiced Zoroastrianism, a religion that influenced Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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Varuna De Silva, Loughborough University
Commentators always like to imagine what players could have done better – we're using AI to prove it.
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Sahar Khamis, University of Maryland
Will it embolden or neuter the Arab world's autocratic regimes?
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Petra Rethmann, McMaster University
The political power of Germany's Russian community is significant, and it's helped fuel the rise of the right-wing, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party known as the AfD.
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