Somalia is still fragile: what the new African Union mission can do to help stabilise it: Somali police officers in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 2018. Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP via Getty Images The African Union Mission in Somalia – AMISOM – has ended its 15-year political and military experiment in post-conflict state building. On 1 April 2022, a …
Climate Repair: three things we must do now to stabilise the planet: Mangrove captures four times more carbon than a same area of rainforest. By Annabell Mayke/Shutterstock “Nowhere is safe.” As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in a recent report that climate change and its consequences are here to stay, is there …
Boosting bee diversity can help stabilise crop production – new research: A hornfaced bee on a catkin. Bildagentur Zoonar GmbH/Shutterstock There are over 20,000 bee species and together they help pollinate more than 75% of the world’s leading food crops. Honeybees tend to hog the limelight, but few realise how important diversity is to this …
How the war in Iraq unintentionally helped stabilise Bosnia: An American soldier on a training exercise with a soldier from the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. U.S. Army Europe, CC BY-SA Back in March 2003, George W Bush’s “coalition of the willing” launched an invasion of Iraq, the consequences of which reverberate to this …
Ukraine is still on the edge, despite all efforts to stabilise it: Since protests, separatism and foreign intervention began to break Ukraine apart in 2014, it has been struggling to stay in control of its future. And the struggle is far from over. No fewer than four peace agreements have been struck: the two Minsk …
South Africa in the news: POLL-South Africa’s rand expected to stabilise for rest of year: JOHANNESBURG, April 6 (Reuters) – South Africa’s rand will be relatively stable against the dollar for the rest of 2017 as the impact of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s shock dismissal and a credit rating cut to “junk” is already priced …