While exploring the way alien species invade cities around the world, South African PhD student…
Month: June 2019
Roads and Deforestation Explode in the Congo Basin
Logging roads are expanding dramatically in the Congo Basin, leading to catastrophic collapses in animal…
Environmental Destruction Linked to African Population Raises Questions About Family Sizes
Africa is projected to be home to nearly 3 billion people by 2100, but rapid…
Facebook’s Libra May Be Quite Attractive in Developing Countries
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency has taken a lot of criticism from Western government officials and media…
Family and Community Central to Recovery Among Sierra Leone’s Former Child Soldiers
Nearly two decades removed from a brutal civil war that made them both captives and…
The Secret of Platinum Deposits Revealed by Field Observations in South Africa
Most of the world’s economically-viable platinum deposits occur as ‘reefs’ in layered intrusions – thin…
Boko Haram Deploys Lots of Women Suicide Bombers. I Found Out Why
This is true of Nigeria’s Boko Haram terror group too. The group frequently deploys female…
How Africa’s Porous Borders Make It Difficult to Contain Ebola
More than 2000 cases of Ebola have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the…
Why It’s Hard to Stop Ebola Spreading – Between People and Across Borders
Ebola has claimed around 1400 lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo while there are…
Why Sudan’s Deadly Crackdown on Protesters Could Escalate in Coming Weeks
Sudanese security forces violently removed a protest camp in the capital, Khartoum, on June 3.…
