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What’s behind the worldwide shortage of cholera vaccines? For starters, they’re only made by one company
12th March 2024 In February 2024 the World Health Organization announced southern Africa was suffering the deadliest regional outbreak of cholera in at least a... →
UNMISS is crucial to free and fair elections in South Sudan
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 12th March 2024 This week, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meets to renew the mandate of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) for another year. It has... →
Technology to protect South Africa’s oceans: experts find that a data-driven monitoring system is paying off
11th March 2024 Nine years ago South Africa put in place an innovative information management system designed to monitor and protect its seas. The country is... →
East Africa must prepare for more extreme rainfall during the short rainy season – new study
11th March 2024 East Africa has recently had an unprecedented series of failed rains. But some rainy seasons are bringing the opposite: huge amounts of rainfall.... →
Happy smiling African children: why school tourism in Zimbabwe shouldn’t be encouraged
11th March 2024 A large, air-conditioned bus draws up outside a school. Tourists, most from Europe and the US, disembark, cameras at the ready. Some have brought... →
AU action to bolster elections should start at the top
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 11th March 2024 Twenty-one African countries are expected to hold elections in 2024, according to the African Union’s (AU) calendar. Already, the first two... →
South Africa struggles to get off the FATF grey list
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 11th March 2024 How is it that Africa’s most sophisticated, if not always largest, economy is still battling to get off the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF)... →
Women battle when trying to take climate change cases to court – South Africa and Nigeria study shows why
8th March 2024 Across domestic courts in Africa, climate cases have been decided in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, with some cases pending in Uganda. However,... →
Russia’s Africa Corps – more than old wine in a new bottle
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 8th March 2024 The Russian military company Wagner appears to have been renamed the Africa Corps by Moscow, and brought under the control of Russia’s Defence... →
AU Lays Foundations for Progressive Customs, Monetary and Fiscal Union
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 8th March 2024 Since the implementation of the heavily indebted poor country programme, most African countries have re-accumulated even higher external and... →
