The battle for Khartoum: tracking Sudan’s war over two years: Sudan has been engulfed in brutal conflict since 15 April 2023, when tensions between the country’s two most powerful military factions erupted into civil war. The conflict stems from a long-standing power struggle over military control and integration. Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and …
Zimbabwe scraps the death penalty – tracking the path to abolition: Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to death since 2005. With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act 2024 on 31 December, Zimbabwe has become the 127th country in the world to end death penalty. This process began with the introduction to …
Your smart watch isn’t a medical device – but it is tracking all your health data: Jacob Lund / Shutterstock For millions of people, smartwatches aren’t just a piece of technology. They can use them to take control of their health in ways never thought possible. As you go on your morning run, a smartwatch …
How tracking menopause symptoms can give women more control over their health: You can track your menopause symptoms by using an app, a dedicated website or a diary. Krotnakro/Shutterstock Menopause can cause more symptoms than hot flushes alone. And some of your symptoms and reactions might be due to the menopause, even if you are …
SA Harvest introduces innovative nutritional tracking technology in its fight to end hunger: SA Harvest, a renowned food rescue and hunger relief organisation, is proud to announce its latest innovation in the fight against hunger — a bespoke technology platform developed for the tracking and analysis of the nutritional value of food it delivers. This …
How tracking technology is transforming our understanding of animal behaviour: Scientists fix biologger tags to animals to gain an insight into their movement and behaviour. Vasileios Karafillidis/Shutterstock Biologging is the practice of attaching devices to animals so that scientific data can be collected. For decades, basic biologgers have been used to relay physiological data including …
We’ve been tracking birds in a small Nigerian forest for 18 years. What we found and why it matters: Little bee-eater (Merops pusillus) Frans Sellies/ Getty Images If you live in Europe, you can find almost any statistic you like about the birds in the environment. How many there are of a species, where you …
We attached tracking devices to West Africa’s green turtles. This is what we learnt: A green turtle with a satellite tag at Poilão Island, Guinea-Bissau. Photo: Miguel Varela Miguel Varela Sea turtles have been swimming the world’s oceans and nesting on its beaches for over 120 million years. They even survived mass extinction events, including …
Tracking symptoms of respiratory diseases online can give a picture of community health: Reporting disease symptoms via online platforms has worked successfully around the world. Shutterstock Respiratory diseases are highly infectious and cause a significant health burden. Disease surveillance is the bedrock of public health responses to outbreaks or epidemics caused by these diseases. Effective …
Data map: Tracking COVID-19 waves in Africa: Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of positive cases across the world as well as in individual countries, has come in a series of rises, peaks and falls. Essentially, the overall pattern has been a series of waves. Within the first two years since the …
South Africa in the news: Climate Footprint Project strengthens emissions tracking capabilities in Indian states: Since 2018, the Climate Footprint Project has been supporting state and regional governments to improve their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions tracking and reduction efforts.: “South Africa” – BingNews ‘We don’t fear New Zealand’ – Dave Rennie defends Wallabies rookie after …
South Africa in the news: Tracking how the provinces are doing on the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out: South Africa’s vaccine roll-out is going – slowly. Nationally, only 3% of eligible adults have been fully vaccinated. KwaZulu-Natal is leading the pack, with the Eastern Cape hot on its heels.: “South Africa” – BingNews British & Irish Lions: …
South Africa in the news: Logistic Tracking and Management Software Market May Set New Growth Story | Oracle, Zoho, Magaya, Route4Me: The latest study released on the Global Logistic Tracking and Management Software Market by AMA Research evaluates market size trend and forecast to 2026 The Logistic Tracking and Management Software …: “South Africa” – …
Colonial ports, customs and censorship: tracking books from ship to shore: Dockside Reading: how dockside protocols shaped copyright and censorship. Getty Images Some years back, I wrote a book about Mahatma Gandhi’s work as a printer and publisher in South Africa, from 1893 to 1914. The man who was to become the great anti-colonial figure …
How South Africa is tracking adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines: A vaccination site in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images South Africa has begun the second phase of its public vaccination campaign, targeting people aged 60 or older. The first vaccinations were given in February to health workers. So far …
Tracking science: a way to include more people in producing knowledge: Karoha Langwane (right) teaching a tracker to collect data on a CyberTracker PDA/GPS device. Rolex/Eric Vandeville In the 18th and 19th centuries amateurs played an important role in the development of modern science. During the 20th century science became professionalised and institutionalised, making it …
South Africa in the news: Know Thine Enemy: Why Genetic Sequencing Is Key to Tracking COVID-19: It has mutations that let it spread more easily than the original SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The rise of that variant, plus B.1.351 from South Africa and P.1 from Brazil, were among factors leading to a …: “South Africa” – BingNews …
What we learned from tracking every COVID policy in the world: In March 2020, as COVID-19 swept around the globe, my colleagues and I began debating the bewildering new measures popping up around the world with our master’s students in a politics of policymaking class at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. We …