Standard responses to road accidents haven’t worked in Ghana: here are some alternatives: There are calls to declare road accidents a public health scare in Ghana Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Road traffic accidents remain a major public health and development challenge in Ghana. They are among the top 10 causes of deaths, draining 2.54% of …
Victims of Habré’s rule haven’t been paid a cent of the compensation due to them: Relatives of the victims at Hissene Habre's 2015 trial in Dakar, Senegal Cemil Oksuz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images What happens when survivors of atrocities are granted a large sum of reparations but the court which ordered the reparations has disappeared and the …
Why efforts by Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana to help cocoa farmers haven’t worked: West African cocoa farmers are largely poor despite the value of their crop Irene Scott/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA A cocoa pricing agreement designed to protect farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana from destitution is being circumvented by multinationals, the main buyers of …
Why haven’t the Tories suffered a backlash for austerity?: The recent elections in the UK have been hailed as another success for the Conservative party. The headline loss for Labour in 2021 was the Hartlepool by-election – but it also ceded control of councils across the country. After over a decade in government, overseeing the …
South Africa in the news: Mass testing after two who haven’t travelled catch South Africa Covid: Two people in Surrey have tested positive for the South Africa variant of Covid-19 – despite having no links to travel to the country. All residents in parts of the county will now be offered Covid …: “South Africa” …
South Africa in the news: Mass testing after two who haven’t travelled catch South Africa Covid: Two people in Surrey have tested positive for the South Africa variant of Covid-19 – despite having no links to travel to the country. All residents in parts of the county will now be offered Covid …: “South Africa” …
Robots were dreamt up 100 years ago – why haven’t our fears about them changed since?: Pavel Chagochkin/Shutterstock.com This is a story you will have heard before. A genius but completely mad scientist – with the backing of a ruthlessly greedy corporation – creates a sentient robot. The scientist’s intentions for the robot are noble: …
East African integration is alive – even though leaders haven’t been united over COVID-19: Trucks wait in line to enter Uganda in Malaba, a Western Kenyan border town. All truck drivers must take a COVID-19 test. Brian Ongoro/AFP via Getty Images The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed further fault lines in the workings …
Wuhan coronavirus: we still haven’t learned the lessons from SARS: The SARS outbreak in 2002-2003 was the first global pandemic of the 21st century. There were 8,422 reported cases and 11% of those infected with the virus died. Its cause was a newly identified coronavirus (a type of virus that causes respiratory infections): SARS Co-V. …
Grenfell Tower: after decades of inaction, politicians still haven’t been held to account: Let’s start with a simple fact: the fire at Grenfell Tower was predictable and preventable. And it could still happen somewhere else today. It happened because local, city and national governments failed to intervene on fire safety the last time they were …
The weird pressure of meal kits: “Leftovers you haven’t cooked yet”: Lisa Rothman thought she'd be transformed. From a woman suffering from acute dinner stress into a different person. : Weird News The Weird Medical Condition That Makes Stoners Shower Nonstop: This condition came to my attention after a reader wrote to us pleading that …
Oil discoveries in Turkana six years ago haven’t delivered benefits for women: Limited by illiteracy and workloads women are less involved in Turkana. Flickr/Tom Albinson Turkana is a vast dry, remote county, in northwest Kenya, home to around 1.5 million nomadic livestock herders. The discovery of commercially viable oil deposits six years ago brought with …
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Sanctions haven’t transformed North Korea – but trade with China might: North Korea is widely regarded as one of the key foreign policy challenges facing the incoming Trump administration – but what the new president will actually do about it is far from clear. His comments on the issue have been rather incoherent and mutually …
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