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The Maasai, nomadic pastoralists who live along Kenya’s arid Great Rift Valley, are particularly prone to drought. As a result they often don’t have enough to eat. Elizabeth Kimani argues that there are a number of contributory factors that make this situation worse. One of them is that women are often excluded from making decisions about food.
The Mediterranean fruit fly is incredibly destructive, costing farmers and governments well over US$1 billion every year. The pest is native to Africa but has recently been found in the Mediterranean Basin and the Middle East. New research shows that an ability to withstand extreme temperatures lies behind its adaptability. Christopher Weldon explains.
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A group of Maasai women and children in Kenya.
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Elizabeth Kimani-Murage, Brown University
In Maasai communities women have no autonomy to make decisions about their nutrition and that of their children.
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Science + Technology
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Christopher Weldon, University of Pretoria
The Mediterranean fruit fly can evolve rapidly to different environmental conditions, this suggests it will be well suited to cope with climate change.
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Politics + Society
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Nuraan Davids, Stellenbosch University
Since the Arab Spring, Egypt's fledgling democracy has regressed. Now the country needs a new social contract
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Mashupye Herbert Maserumule, Tshwane University of Technology
South Africa's governance challenge can't simply be fixed by reorganising the structure of government.
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From our international editions
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Kevin Knuth, University at Albany, State University of New York
About 5 percent of all UFO sightings cannot be easily explained by weather or human technology. A physicist argues that there's compelling evidence to justify serious scientific study and that the skeptics should step aside – for the sake of humanity.
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Balihar Sanghera, University of Kent; Elmira Satybaldieva, University of Kent
Central Asia is at the centre of two new initiatives by China and Russia that run against a longstanding economic vision of the US.
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