Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself – a pioneering artist who influenced the civil service: Barbara Steveni (1928-2020) was a pioneering artist who broke boundaries with new concepts such as “the artist as a living archive” and “art as social strategy”. The legacy of her 70-year career is explored in a new exhibition, Barbara Steveni: I …
Violence in South Sudan is rising again: what’s different this time, and how to avoid civil war: A rise in political tensions in South Sudan and an escalation of violence in the Upper Nile State have raised fears of a return to civil war in the world’s youngest nation. In early March 2025, neighbouring Uganda …
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Le ciment est un gros émetteur de carbone et la qualité est coûteuse : un ingénieur civil s’explique: Chaque année, 4 milliards de tonnes de ciment sont utilisées dans le monde pour fabriquer le béton qui entre dans la composition des bâtiments et autres infrastructures. Cela laisse une énorme empreinte carbone et entraîne d’autres coûts. …
South Africa’s universities aren’t training future civil servants for what the country needs: Many analysts blame state capture – the corruption of the management of public affairs – for the weakening of state capacity in South Africa. A judicial commission of inquiry into the problem laid it bare. They say the COVID pandemic worsened the …
Climate change could lead to food-related civil unrest in UK within 50 years, say experts: Baby-Spider/Shutterstock The emptying of supermarket shelves during the COVID pandemic demonstrated the chaos that disruption to the UK’s food supply can provoke. Could this type of disruption have a different cause in the future? And what might the impact on …
Coups d’État militaires en Afrique : voici ce qui détermine le retour à un régime civil: Les partisans du coup d'État de juillet 2023 au Niger célèbrent dans la capitale, Niamey. Balima Boureima/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Un peu plus de deux ans après la première passation de pouvoir pacifique d’un président civil à un …
Niger: with a key deadline passed, Nigeria must take decisive steps to prevent a civil war in its neighborhood: The deadline set by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) for the elected president of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum – who was deposed in a coup on July 26 – to be reinstated to office …
Sierra Leone has been at peace for 20 years after a brutal civil war – what went right: Henry, a teenaged rebel solider, before he is disarmed in 2001. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images Sierra Leone’s June 2023 parliamentary elections are the fifth since the end of the civil war in 2002. They also mark …
Why some terror campaigns escalate to civil war and others don’t – study reveals surprising new answers: Guerillas from the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) pictured in 1990. Richard Hoffmann/Sygma via Getty Images Most terrorist campaigns – where a group targets civilians to achieve political objectives – are short-lived. But some aren’t. In some cases, terror …
Israel protests: Netanyahu delays judicial reforms over fears of ‘civil war’ – but deep fault-lines threaten future of democracy: Despite Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to delay the planned judicial reforms that have so destabilised Israeli society, the country’s crisis of democracy is far from over. Protests at Netanyahu’s plan, which have rocked Israel for weeks, redoubled …
Iran: unions and civil rights groups demand democracy and social justice: Women, life, freedom: protests against the oppression of Iranian women in Iran in Ottowa, Canada, September 2022. Taymaz Valley/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Forty-four years after Iranians rose up against their hated monarch in February 1979, a group of 20 organisations engaged in long-term social …
Sue Gray quitting to work for Keir Starmer does cause problems for the civil service – it’s also a sign she thinks he’s heading for government: The last few years of drama at Westminster have set the bar pretty high for shock and surprise, but the sudden departure from government of Sue Gray, second permanent …
Myanmar: two years after the military seized power the country is mired in a bloody civil war – but there are grounds for optimism: Two years on from the latest military coup that deposed Myanmar’s democratically elected government, what began as a wave of national protest against the army’s power grab has descended into outright …
South Africa’s intelligence watchdog is failing civil society. How to restore its credibility: Shutterstock In October, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and his cabinet committed to a range of reforms to the country’s intelligence services. He based these reforms on recommendations made by the judicial commission of inquiry into state capture. The reforms include strengthening …
COP27 shines light on civil liberties in Egypt, but it’ll take work to achieve real freedom: Activists gather in front of Tel Aviv's Embassy of Egypt to demonstrate in support of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The ability to speak freely in Egypt is currently very constrained. Individuals, …
Afghanistan: with civil war on the cards, the west needs to identify a moderate ally to support: Resistance leader: the NRF's Ahmad Massoud. NRF/Twitter It has become axiomatic that in Afghanistan, once an armed resistance group gains a foothold in an area it becomes hard to route out. This is more so if it musters …
Why Britain really can’t afford to cut civil servants right now: Shutterstock A letter leaked to the BBC has revealed that the UK government aims to cut up to 91,000 civil service jobs over the next three years to save money. The letter, sent to civil servants by Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, sets out …