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Every year international visitors flock to Tunisia to enjoy the beaches and the culture of the north African country. But few tourists are visiting the mountainous north-western city of El Kef – and that’s a missed opportunity. El Kef is an urban centre that was once an ancient Numidian city and has been home to Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman colonies as well as Arab and Muslim communities. This history has left a tangible fingerprint on the city and its surroundings. A group of heritage and architecture specialists argue that it’s time for the world to take note of what El Kef offers heritage tourists.
The South African government has called time on the country’s captive lion sector. The captive-bred lion hunting industry will be shut down completely, along with any trade in lion parts. But the government has not put a deadline on this. Experts fear that until they do, the captive lion trade will carry on as usual and that there could even be flourishing secret lion farms that continue to trade.
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Majdi Faleh, Nottingham Trent University; Asma Gharbi, Université de Carthage; Nourchen Ben Fatma, Université de Carthage
Tunisia has failed to capitalise on the heritage tourism potential of the ancient city and its natural surroundings.
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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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Yaw Agyeman Boafo, University of Ghana
Ghana is experiencing record high temperatures and rainfall patterns have become inconsistent.
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Hannah Ameye, University of Bonn
Rural Tanzanians and those living in the city eat unhealthy diets, but their circumstances are very different.
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From our international editions
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Hanika Rizo, Carleton University
Analysis of fragments of the first solids that emerged out of the birth of the sun date our supernova as being 4.6 billion years old.
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Chee Meng Tan, University of Nottingham
India’s Modi may be betting on Trump’s return to the White House to build on their existing relationship.
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Amalendu Misra, Lancaster University
The armed gangs of Haiti have a very clear assessment of their power as movers and shakers of the country’s future.
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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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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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