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South African journalist and television personality, Derek Watts, recently announced that he had been diagnosed with severe sepsis and “was learning to walk again”. Sepsis is responsible for 1 in 5 deaths every year, globally. But what exactly is it, and how common is it? Caroline Maluleka, Olga Perovic and Liliwe Shuping explain.
Chad recently ordered the German ambassador to leave the country. In retaliation, Berlin expelled the Chadian ambassador. Helga Dickow unpacks what’s behind these tensions - revealing that Chad’s move could be a warning to other countries to steer clear of Chadian politics and support for the opposition.
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Caroline Maluleka, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Many infections, including bacterial, fungal and viral infections can lead to sepsis and septic shock.
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Helga Dickow, University of Freiburg
Expulsion of the German ambassador could be a way of warning other embassies, especially France, to steer clear of Chadian politics and support for the opposition.
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Susanne Vetter, Rhodes University; Michelle Cocks, Rhodes University; Valerie Møller, Rhodes University
Experiencing nature helps people in times of joy and pain. However, inequity of access to green spaces means that South Africans cannot enjoy nature when they need to.
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Bancy M. Mati, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Kenya’s irrigation development is more advanced than official records show because they exclude what some farmers are doing.
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Moussa Kane, Université Gaston Berger
Les écoles afrocentriques offrent une alternative culturellement riche aux parents noirs qui se sont sentis exclus des systèmes éducatifs traditionnels.
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From our international editions
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Nicole Esteban, Swansea University; Marga L. Rivas, Universidad de Cádiz
Leatherback turtles are predicted to lose half of their nesting habitat, on one beach studied.
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Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University
The launch of a new rocket is always an exciting event. SpaceX’s ‘go fast and fail’ approach means that even though the test ended with engineers blowing up the rocket, it was a valuable first flight.
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Pragya Agarwal, Loughborough University
Ultimately, our brains are lazy and it takes a lot of cognitive effort to change the script and these shortcuts that we have already built up.
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Muhammad Azizul Islam, University of Aberdeen
At least 1,132 workers died when the Rana building collapsed in Bangladesh, while several thousand more were injured.
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