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South Africa must adopt a localised response to Covid-19. What it would look like
9th June 2020 South Africa needs to adopt a more localised and differentiated approach in the next phase of its management of the Covid-19 pandemic. This might... →
Reinventing the Mauritian economic model
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 9th June 2020 Mauritius reported its first cases of coronavirus on 19 March and closed its borders to all foreigners on the same day. It was a radical step for a... →
We looked for South Africa's 'missing' plastic litter. This is what we found
8th June 2020 Every year, the world produces about 300-million tonnes of plastic. Somewhere between 5-million and 12-million tonnes of it finds its way into the... →
South Africa's use of Covid-19 modelling has been deeply flawed. Here's why
8th June 2020 When President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the decision to implement an initial 21-day national lockdown in response to the threat posed by the... →
Breaking terrorism supply chains in West Africa
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 8th June 2020 Last month Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire jointly conducted Operation Comoé along their borders. They captured 38 suspected terrorists, killed... →
Does the Sahel really need more AU troops?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 5th June 2020 Last year saw a significant resurgence of extremist violence in the Sahel, especially in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, where the United Nations... →
What emergency?
By: Terence Creamer 5th June 2020 News that bid documentation is finally being prepared for the so-called emergency procurement of 2 000 MW of electricity generation from... →
COVID-19 shows the world needs physicians who can look beyond medical charts
4th June 2020 As modern medicine has advanced, so too has our understanding of what affects health. Over recent decades this has generated a number of new fields... →
Can Lourenço deliver at a time of crisis?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 4th June 2020 Angola’s President João Lourenço finds himself in the middle of numerous concentric circles of crises. These include a public health emergency in... →
Covid-19 and the politics of the year of the nurse
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 4th June 2020 When the World Health Organisation (WHO) last year named 2020 the ‘International Year of the Nurse and Midwife’, there was no way of knowing that... →
