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The residents of the Gaza Strip have now endured a full six months of bombardment, siege and displacement at the hands of the Israeli military. The human cost has been devastating: more than 33,000 killed, a further 1.9 million displaced and more than a million living in famine conditions.
The scale of destruction will set back any ambitions that Palestinians in Gaza – and the international community – may have had about turning the enclave into anything approaching a functioning society. Dima Nazzal lays out the challenge facing those confronted with rebuilding a war-shattered Gaza. She explains how each separate problem – health, hunger, education, housing – impacts and exacerbates the others. It is, Nazzal writes, a condition of “cascading
crises.”
The future of the CFA franc – a currency used by two west African regional blocs that collectively form the franc zone – is in the balance. This is after the recent change of government in Senegal, which comes soon after Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announced their intent to leave the monetary arrangement. Kai Koddenbrock explains what the intent of the four countries portends for the CFA.
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Dima Nazzal, Georgia Institute of Technology
The Palestinian enclave faces an interconnected series of crises that will amplify the human costs of conflict even when the bombing ends.
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Kai Koddenbrock, Bard College Berlin
Never before have four governments, including one of the regional leaders, Senegal, been simultaneously eager and ready to get out of the neo-colonial stranglehold of the CFA franc.
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Jordan Tama, American University School of International Service
Israel has historically made statements and taken actions to placate US anger without always following through. But will Biden’s threat to put conditions on aid force Israel to behave differently?
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Neil D’Cruze, University of Oxford; Angie Elwin, Manchester Metropolitan University; Jennah Green, Manchester Metropolitan University
The South African government has finally decided to shut down the captive lion industry, but has not set a deadline for when lion breeding and hunting will end.
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Karleen Gribble, Western Sydney University; Naomi Hull, University of Sydney; Nina Jane Chad, University of Sydney
Formula-fed babies can switch to cow’s milk from six months, so long as they’re getting enough iron in their diet.
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Travis Nemkov, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
An elite athlete’s metabolism mostly looks different from a patient with COVID-19 − but their occasional similarities can reveal important insights into health and disease.
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Giovanni Sala, University of Liverpool; Shu Zhang, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology
The traditional Japanese diet contains plenty of rice, fish, pickles, green tea, soybeans, miso and shiitake mushrooms.
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Ariell Ahearn, University of Oxford; Dawn Chatty,, University of Oxford
The largest farm, in the UAE, has more than 10,000 camels.
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