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High intensity storms have been a frequent feature along the coast of the US throughout recorded history. But, warns Jennifer Fitchett, their increased frequency in the Indian Ocean should be raising alarm bells. This is because countries like the US are much better equipped to help people prepare, and to handle the fallout, than countries like Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
The Islamic State has claimed five recent attacks in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, crediting them to a new central African offshoot. But Stig Jarle Hansen explains why it’s tricky to trace the links between the Islamic State and rebel groups in the region.
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An aerial view of the damage from flood waters after tropical cyclone Idai made landfall in Mozambique’s Sofala province.
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Jennifer Fitchett, University of the Witwatersrand
The spate of high intensity tropical cyclones making landfall in Southern Africa has been tied to very warm sea surface temperatures.
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Isis claims attacks in Beni province of northern Kivu, eastern Congo, close to the border to Uganda.
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Stig Jarle Hansen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Links between groups within the Kivu province and the Islamic state are not new.
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Politics + Society
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Tania Ajam, Stellenbosch University
Over the past few years, heads of department and chief financial officers in South Africa have been placed under enormous pressure by politicians to bend compliance rules.
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Frans Viljoen, University of Pretoria
Despite taking a step backwards, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights can redeem itself by continuing to protect the rights of LGBTQ persons on the continent
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Science + Technology
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Bagus Putra Muljadi, University of Nottingham
Termites have evolved sustainable air conditioning, say scientists.
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From our international editions
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Kunal Sen, University of Manchester
Modi has had mixed successes in delivering on big promises to transform India's economy.
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Ed Bryan, University of Cambridge
As former director of the US Information Agency, Edward R. Murrow, once put it, presidential travel should be treated as a 'weapon' to influence popular opinion.
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Gillian Foulger, Durham University
Pumping high-pressure fluid into fault lines causes them to slowly slip, increasing the pressure on more distant rock and inducing earthquakes far away.
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Ella Tennant, Keele University
History tells us there were eight women who ruled as empresses of Japan, but since reforms of the constitution in 1947, only a man can inherit the throne.
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