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A new census shows that the population of mountain gorillas in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park has risen to 459 individuals from 400 in 2011. It’s great news but, as Katerina Guschanski explains, we don’t know if these figures are accurate because previous surveys missed many groups and individuals. So we can’t be sure whether there are more gorillas or not.
There was curiosity and surprise when The Gambia filed suit at the International Court of Justice against Myanmar over the persecution of its minority Rohingya. But Kerstin Carlson and Line Engbo Gissel argue that Gambia’s invocation of the Genocide Convention is politically and legally significant, not least for the potential it signals about the application of international law by actors in the global south.
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Mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
Shutterstock/Claire E Carter
Katerina Guschanski, Uppsala University
Surveys are likely to have missed multiple groups and individuals due to differences in survey techniques.
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A protester supports the Rohingya outside the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, on 10 December 2019.
EPA-EFE/Sem van der Wal
Kerstin Carlson, University of Southern Denmark; Line Engbo Gissel, Roskilde University
The Rohingya case before the International Court of Justice is politically and legally significant.
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Politics + Society
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Andre Duvenhage, North-West University
The year ahead promises to be a very difficult but also a very decisive year for South Africa. Is President Ramaphosa equal to the challenge?
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Ellen Fungisai Chipango, University of Johannesburg
Zimbabwe's energy policy needs to be reconsidered if the country's electricity shortage is to be resolved.
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From our international editions
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William Hauk, University of South Carolina
Brexit represented British voters' desire to reclaim more control over their economic future, but some worry the cost will be some of the prosperity gained from globalization.
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Christine P. Bartholomew, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Pope Francis recently removed a rule known as Pontifical Secrecy, which allowed clergy and church officials to withhold information regarding sexual abuse. Will it make the church truly transparent?
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