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Kenya’s Supreme Court has created an impossible timeline for organising re-elections in less than 60 days. Dominic Burbidge says this is because the court failed to provide details on what invalidated the East African country's election.
Lake Tana in Ethiopia, a vital ecosystem for over 123 million people, is critically infested by an aquatic weed known as water hyacinth. Removing the weed is difficult, but there is a solution. Solomon Kibret believes that biological control is the most economical and effective approach.
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Opposition Kenyan leader Raila Odinga speaks out after the election was declared invalid.
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Dominic Burbidge, University of Oxford
By failing to provide details on what invalidated Kenya's election, the country's Supreme Court has created an impossible timeline for organising re-elections within 60 days.
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Environment + Energy
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Solomon Kibret, University of California, Irvine
Lake Tana in Ethiopia has been massively affected by the invasive weed, water hyacinth. Control methods are available but there are challenges.
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Business + Economy
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Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg
South African business can beat back the toxic 'white monopoly capital' title by doing things differently and not by shouting from roof tops.
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Politics + Society
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Matthew Graham, University of Dundee
The ANC has worked hard to monopolise the history of the anti-apartheid struggle – meaning transformational figures are being left out.
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From our international editions
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Benjamin Habib, La Trobe University
The North Korea nuclear crisis is exposing the reality of US decline and the growing limitations of its ability to shape the strategic environment in northeast Asia.
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Neil Wilkins, University of Bristol
Within hours of North Korea's latest underground nuclear test, Japan and South Korea were both able to independently confirm it had happened. How?
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Gary Fooks, Aston University; Tom Mills, Aston University
The general assumption in the UK is that regulation is a drag on enterprise, but a closer look at the costs and benefits suggests this might not be the case.
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Alan J Gow, Heriot-Watt University
Brain games, learning languages, rowing? Beware of snake oil salesman claiming we know it all.
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