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Most of Africa’s football teams at the World Cup tournament in Russia have been eliminated. Chuka Onwumechili argues that countries should review how they spend money earned from the sport. A rearrangement of budgets might put African teams in a position to perform better at the world football’s next quadrennial showcase in Qatar in 2020.
Two years ago, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro opened up a large swath of the country -including protected areas - to mining. Though this has brought environmental devastation, top global environmental organisations haven’t raised concerns about the situation. Isaac Nahon-Serfaty explains why.
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Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University
African governments and football associations need to do some serious recalculating for the Qatar world cup in 2022.
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Isaac Nahon-Serfaty, University of Ottawa
In 2016, Venezuela opened up a large swath of the country to mining in an effort to prop up its economy. Now it is paying the environmental price.
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Environment + Energy
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Andrea Webster, University of Pretoria
A new way for leopard biologists to monitor this elusive and iconic species has been developed.
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Politics + Society
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Eva Nisa, Victoria University of Wellington; Faried F. Saenong, Victoria University of Wellington
Indonesia has worked hard to block homegrown terrorist cells, but the involvement of children as suicide bombers in recent attacks has raised concerns that de-radicalisation programmes aren't working.
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Felicita Tramontana, University of Warwick
Migration is central to Mediterranean history and people have always moved between its two shores.
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Nicholas Herriman, La Trobe University; David R. M. Irving, University of Melbourne; Greg Acciaioli, University of Western Australia; Monika Winarnita, La Trobe University; Trixie Kinajil, Australian National University
In the 1800s, a group of Southeast Asians were taken to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, now part of Australia, by an English merchant. Their descendants are seeking Indigenous status from Australia.
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Science + Technology
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Paul South, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
As the climate changes and the population grows, meeting the demand for food will become more difficult as arable land declines. But an international team of scientists has figured out an innovative solution to dramatically bumping up crop yields.
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