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Most of Africa’s football teams at the World Cup tournament in Russia have already been eliminated. Chuka Onwumechili argues that countries should review how they spend money earned from the sport. A rearrangement of budgets might put African teams in a position to perform better at the world football’s next quadrennial showcase in Qatar in 2020.
Acute stress is essential for the survival of most animals, including humans and leopards. For the big cats, the short-term stress of stalking and hunting prey can yield positive results. But stress experienced over prolonged periods of time can be bad news for the already vulnerable predator. Andrea Webster explains how a new method of measuring leopards' stress levels works, and why it can help protect and conserve them.
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Morocco will be going home after coming last in their group in Russia.
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Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University
African governments and football associations need to do some serious recalculating for the Qatar world cup in 2022.
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Science + Technology
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Andrea Webster, University of Pretoria
A new way for leopard biologists to monitor this elusive and iconic species has been developed.
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Politics + Society
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Gift Mwonzora, Rhodes University
The world waits to see if Zimbabwe will pass the democracy test as it holds its first election after Robert Mugabe next month.
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Felicita Tramontana, University of Warwick
Migration is central to Mediterranean history and people have always moved between its two shores.
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From our international editions
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Stuart Macdonald, Swansea University
Companies, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft are working together to take down terrorist propaganda.
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Gordon Brown, University of Aberdeen
Fungi perform a vital role in the biological cycle, but pose an increasing danger to human health – invasive fungal infections kill three times more people than malaria.
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Gordon Adams, American University School of International Service
President Trump is criticized for wreaking havoc on the international order, where the US was the established leader. But Trump is simply hastening a change that has been a long time coming.
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