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Floods have wreaked havoc in Kenya, claiming lives and bringing down homes. In a rapidly urbanising country marked by informal settlements and uncontrolled developments, the flood risk is high. In rural areas, landscapes altered by grazing, deforestation and settlement don’t hold heavy rainfall. Sean Avery explains what Kenya can do to safeguard lives and property.
Independent-minded journalists and editors had it tough under apartheid. They were harassed by state security forces, jailed, banned and beaten for doing their job. At least one newspaper had its premises in downtown Johannesburg bombed. The dominance of white men meant the press represented the views of a privileged few. Nelson Mandela lamented this lack of diversity as anathema to democracy. He envisioned a free, inclusive and vibrant future for the press. Prinola Govenden looks at how South Africa’s media have fared under democracy.
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Sean Avery, King's College London
There’s been an increase in the amount of runoff generated from rainfall as land is altered by settlement and deforestation.
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Prinola Govenden, University of Johannesburg
There is much to celebrate about the critical role the media have played in 30 years of democracy. But challenges remain.
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Olumba E. Ezenwa, Royal Holloway University of London; John Sunday Ojo, University of Portsmouth
Niger’s military government sides with Russia in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing influence in Africa.
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Ehiaze Ehimen, Atlantic Technological University; Thomas Robin, Atlantic Technological University
Biogas systems that generate cooking gas from plant waste can be relatively low-cost to set up. They come with environmental and health benefits for rural people who have only firewood to cook with.
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From our international editions
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Paul Howe, Tufts University
In Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere around the globe, famine affects increasing numbers of people.
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Nicole Rinehart, Monash University; David Moseley, Monash University; Michael Gordon, Monash University
Pathological demand avoidance isn’t listed in the diagnostic manuals clinicians use. But that doesn’t make it less distressing for children or families. What can help?
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Nora McDonald, George Mason University
Adolescents treat ‘for you’ algorithms as a social mirror and are willing to give up privacy to use it.
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Tom Stacey, Anglia Ruskin University
Chinese car makers are finding the road to succeeding in the EU slow and bumpy.
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Asher Flynn, Monash University; Anastasia Powell, RMIT University; Lisa J. Wheildon, Monash University
One in seven Australians say they have engaged in tech-based workplace harassment – and it’s often designed to offend, humiliate and distress the victim.
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