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A grenade explosion apparently targeting Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed killed two and injured over 100 people at the weekend. The attack set off a storm of speculation around the country’s political transition. Girma Mohammed sets out the context behind the attack and asks whether a wildly popular prime minister committed to reforming the country’s institutions is beginning to face open resistance from within his own party.
Rosewood is very valuable and has become scarce because of its popularity. Over the past decade Zambia has become one of China's key sources of the wood, but this hasn’t benefitted the African country. Paolo Omar Cerutti and Davison Gumbo explain how ineffective monitoring and corruption have led to environmental destruction and the loss of millions of dollars in potential revenue.
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed minutes before an explosion.
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Mohammed Girma, University of Pretoria
The grenade attack shows that opponents are threatened by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's progress.
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Environment + Energy
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Paolo Omar Cerutti, Centre for International Forestry Research; Davison Gumbo, Centre for International Forestry Research
Zambia's rosewood forests are being decimated but it's still not reaping the full benefits of exporting the coveted wood to China.
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Health + Medicine
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Winnie Sambu, University of Cape Town; Lucy Jamieson, University of Cape Town
South Africa has made significant progress with some of the sustainable development goal targets. But with others its lagging far behind.
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Education
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Helena Barnard, University of Pretoria; Moritz Mueller, Université de Strasbourg; Robin Cowan, Université de Strasbourg
There's strong evidence that, all things being equal, leading South African universities provide “world class” training at PhD level.
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From our international editions
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Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has headed off a political humiliation, but making good on his extravagant promises won't be easy.
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Andrew James Reid, Glasgow Caledonian University
WHO's classification of 'gaming addiction' ignores the hugely positive aspects of play.
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Marcia Zug, University of South Carolina
History shows that the US court system isn't sympathetic to illegal migrants when it comes to parental rights.
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