Africa’s tallest dam, the GIBE III dam in Ethiopia, will provide itself and neighbouring countries with much-needed electricity. Sean Avery explains how this will come at a high human and environmental cost – both in Ethiopia and across the border.
Racism and xenophobia are on the rise globally, and hatred is increasingly finding expression at schools and on university campuses. Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid argue that protecting and cultivating diversity in educational spaces is now more important than ever.
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A man hangs fish to dry on the western shore of Lake Turkana.
Reuters/Goran Tomasevic
Sean Avery, University of Leicester
Ethiopia's GIBE III dam has been labelled the world's most controversial dam due to environmental and social impacts and the displacement of indigenous people.
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Education
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Nuraan Davids, Stellenbosch University; Yusef Waghid, Stellenbosch University
Schools and universities have a responsibility to protect students from hate speech while also exposing them to views that disrupt their ways of thinking and ideas of the world.
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Politics + Society
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David Everatt, University of the Witwatersrand
Instead of ignoring his accusers, South Africa's Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa entertained them, tried to silence them through court, and then revealed a long-past affair of little interest.
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Health + Medicine
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Griffins Manguro, Ghent University
The introduction of Pre Exposure Prophylaxis drugs in Kenya aims at reducing new HIV infections among people facing substantial ongoing risk.
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