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"The social inequity is only matched by the political inequity," said Patrick Smith, editor of Africa Confidential, the respected newsletter analysing the continent. "I don't see where the model is going. The system looks after the elite, but that's all ... there is a huge question mark...
Among the nine highways, the Cairo-Cape Town Highway is one of the most ambitious, running from Egypt in North Africa to South Africa in the southernmost part of the continent. Another notable route is the Trans-Sahelian Highway, connecting Dakar in Senegal to N’Djamena in Chad, which pr...
The first Africa Climate Summit opens Monday in Kenya to highlight the continent that will suffer the most from climate change while contributing to it the least. Significant investment inAfrica's adaptation to climate change, including better forecasting, will be an urg...
The mid-twentieth century marked a transformative period for Africa as 29 countries achieved independence between 1956 and 1964, signaling the dawn of the nation-state across the continent. This era resonated with a spirit of liberation and progress, paralleling the global movements of that time, ...
By Janet Karim If a family divides itself into groups which fight each other, that family will fall apart. – Mark 3:25 A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! – Psalm 133:1 After 58 years of independent rule and...
While global deforestation induced by human land use has been quantified, the drivers and extent of simultaneous woody plant encroachment (WPE) into open areas are only regionally known. WPE has important consequences for ecosystem functioning, global carbon balances and human economies. Here we report...
Visit the Vineyard Cheesery, the first carbon-neutral cheesery on the African continent, and taste the Roydon Camembert. But don't let Fairview's sideshows color your judgment about the wines. The estate's wines are top-drawer and often surprising. The Fairview Eenzaamheid Shiraz is excellent,...
A few days later a Russian woman joined our group, what was left of it after we started splitting. She showed me photos with the crossing that took place the very next day. Well, as I like to say: it is what it is and what should happen happens. Richard was talking the whole time...
(for example, Fig.4c). We surmise that this is because increasing summer insolation over the North African continent quickly re-invigorated the southeasterly monsoon34, whereas the South Asian monsoon responded later to this insolation forcing because the Arctic sea-ice expansion that cooled northern...