Ethiopia-Tigray war: expert insights into two years of conflict and its devastating consequences: Atlantide Phototravel via GettyImages November 2022 marks the second year of the Ethiopia-Tigray war. What began as a swift armed mission by Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed to bring the rebellious state of Tigray to order soon degenerated into a humanitarian nightmare …
Ghana’s economic crisis: expert insights into how things got so bad – and what to do to fix it: GettyImages Ghana is grappling with runaway inflation as prices of basic commodities have spiralled. Government finances are also at their weakest in years. Ghana’s local currency, the cedi, is now the world’s worst performer against the …
Nigeria floods: expert insights into why they’re so devastating and what to do about them: EPA/GEORGE ESIRI Nigeria is experiencing its worst flooding in over a decade. Over 1.4 million people have been displaced, 500 have been reported dead and thousands have been injured. Flooding isn’t a new challenge in Nigeria – it’s one of …
Nobel economics prize: insights into financial contagion changed how central banks react during a crisis: Left to right: Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig. The Nobel Foundation This year’s Nobel prize in economics, known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, has gone to Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig and former Federal Reserve Chair …
Three ways to make the most of college and university – surprising insights from economics: Choosing a college or university course is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. What you study and where you study it will shape your career, your friends and peers and, quite possibly, the rest of your …
Nobel prize: physicists share prize for insights into the spooky world of quantum mechanics: Members of the Nobel Committee for Physics announce the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics (L-R on the screen) Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger TT News Agency / Alamy Stock Photo The 2022 Nobel prize for …
Nigeria’s endless lecturer strikes: insights from some essential reads: Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei /AFP One thing that is synonymous with public universities in Nigeria is strikes. Since 1999, the public university system has lost about 57 cumulative months to industrial action. This always comes about as a result of under-funding. Lecturers’ unions have called …
The Inaugural App Growth and Marketing Insights Summit in South Africa: SHAREit, the peer-to-peer file sharing, content streaming and gaming platform, is hosting its first ever App Growth and Marketing Insights Summit in Johannesburg and Cape Town during the first week of August 2022. The invite-only conference events will bring together the biggest influential and …
Boris Johnson: four key insights from recent polls can help us see where the crisis is heading: Flickr/Number 10, CC BY-NC-SA Boris Johnson has been called a Heineken politician – he can reach parts of the public other politicians cannot. Yet scandal after scandal amid worsening economic conditions and a swathe of strikes has left …
Kenya and South Africa offer insights into digital economy failures: Telemarketers at an international outsourcing call centre in Nairobi. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images The World Bank is warning of the real danger of a massive economic downturn across the world. In a recent analysis it warned that many countries – including those in sub-Saharan …
Conversation Insights wins journalism award for climate coverage: The Conversation authors recognised for work on net zero. You may remember seeing an article we published in April last year in which climate scientists, James Dyke, Wolfgang Knorr and Robert Watson, set out the problems inherent in the idea of net zero. Climate activist Greta Thunberg …
Gaia mission: five insights astronomers could glean from its latest data: Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way. ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier, CC BY-NC The European Space Agency’s (Esa) Gaia mission has just released new data. The Gaia satellite was launched in 2013, with the aim of measuring the precise positions of a …
IVF: here’s how genetics may be affecting its success – new insights: The success rate of IVF still remains at around 30%. fizkes/ Shutterstock It has been almost 44 years years since the first in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure was successfully performed in 1978 in Lancashire, England. Since then, more than 8 million babies have …
Quantum physics offers insights about leadership in the 21st century: Shutterstock It may seem strange to look to the discipline of quantum physics for lessons that will help to create future-fit leaders. But science has a lot to offer us. Like scientists, business leaders need to be able to manage rapid change and ambiguity in …
Kiir and Machar: insights into South Sudan’s strongmen: South Sudan's President Salva Kiir (right) and his deputy Riek Machar shake hands in Addis Ababa to signify a peace deal in September, 2018. AFP via Getty Images Salva Kiir and Riek Machar loom large over South Sudan’s recent history. And they will keep holding the future …
Insights from Zimbabwe on how to link formal and informal economies: A Zimbabwean broom vender pushes his bike on the streets of Chitungwiza outside Harare. ALEXANDER JOE/AFP via Getty Images In 2003, Thabo Mbeki – then president of South Africa – described South Africa’s economy as being like a two-storey house. The top floor was …
Worrying insights from UN’s first-ever assessment of water security in Africa: Franck Metois/ GettyImages When it comes to water security – a reliable, good supply of safe water – just 29 African countries have made some progress over the past three to five years. Twenty-five have made none. This data comes out of the UN’s …
5 key insights for open source project sustainability in 2022: 5 key insights for open source project sustainability in 2022 Sean P. Goggins Tue, 03/29/2022 – 03:00 Up 1 reader likes this Many technology firms are turning to open source tools to accelerate innovation and growth. As these firms work to influence open source projects, …