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President Donald Trump’s announcement that the US won’t be part of a global agreement on climate change has sent shockwaves around the world. One response, argues Lorenzo Fioramonti, is to question conventional approaches to economic growth and to look for ways of approaching development that aren’t based on the continuous exploitation of humans and nature.
People with albinism in Africa face danger as well as abuse. Although the dangers aren’t as great in South Africa as in Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe, people with albinism still struggle with stigma and discrimination. Eleanor Ross explains.
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Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Pretoria
The climate crisis demands not only green technologies, but a completely different approach to economic development.
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Education
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Eleanor Ross, University of Johannesburg
People with albinism tend to identify with the black rather than the white community. Their physical differences, though, mean they don't fit into either race group.
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Politics + Society
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Amira Osman, University of Johannesburg
Recent events suggest that South Africa's government may be resorting to short-term measures to pacify anger over lack of housing. But what's needed is a major overhaul of the housing policy.
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Health + Medicine
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Michèle Ramsay, University of the Witwatersrand; Thandiswa Ngcungcu, University of the Witwatersrand
South African geneticists and international counterparts have traced the origins of a genetic peeling disorder, Oudtshoorn skin, and discovered the mutation that causes it.
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From our international editions
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Bill Durodie, University of Bath
Tightening security, impact of foreign wars – Britons have heard it before. The UK now has to dig beyond rhetoric to ask why some care so little of their own lives to take those of others.
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Dan Lomas, University of Salford
It's difficult for security services to anticipate such a low-tech attack.
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Steve Hewitt, University of Birmingham
The attack in London was horrific but armed officers were on the scene and ending it with astonishing speed.
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