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April 20th, 2018
The suffragettes are 100 years old
| in: | Humans |
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| by: | Federica Tedeschi |
At the beginning of the 20th century the suffrage movement was in full swing. And now?
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April 17th, 2018
Take your pills, take a selfie
| in: | Technology |
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| by: | Shira Jeczmien |
Smartphone apps that monitor pill-taking are now available, and researchers are testing how well they work.
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April 16th, 2018
The unbearable double standards of the Israeli occupation
| in: | Humans |
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| by: | Ithamar Handelman Smith |
“To be a Jew means always to be with the oppressed, never with the oppressors.” (Marek Edelman, one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising)
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April 12th, 2018
Protect school children from drowning in pit latrines!
| in: | Humans |
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| by: | Shasha Seakamela |
It takes functional sanitation facilities at schools to ensure the health and safety of South Africa’s young learners.
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April 10th, 2018
Health tech loves white men
| in: | Technology |
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| by: | Sofia Gallarate |
Blacks, Hispanics, and some Asian populations, when compared with whites, appear to have lower access to high-tech medicine.
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April 09th, 2018
Botswana - a small country that stands up to the big boys
| in: | Humans, Nature, Economy |
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| by: | Bob Koigi |
What gives a small but resource rich Botswana the moral pedestal to openly criticize and castigate other nations and powerful leaders?
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April 05th, 2018
Ghana’s Deadly Roads
| in: | Humans, Economy |
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| by: | Kwabena Adu Koranteng |
Travelling on Ghana’s roads has become a nightmare as the country records more deaths from fatal road accidents.
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April 03rd, 2018
Blockchain credit cards for refugees: we’re almost there
| in: | Technology |
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| by: | Shira Jeczmien |
Many of the refugees coming into Europe do not have local IDs.
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March 27th, 2018
South Africa allows expropriation of land without compensation
| in: | Humans, Economy |
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| by: | Shasha Seakamela |
Land expropriation without compensation is now a red-hot topic in South Africa after a bill was passed in Parliament in February this year.
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March 23rd, 2018
Israel’s Bibi-mania problem
| in: | Humans |
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| by: | Ithamar Handelman Smith, Josef Reich |
The corruption allegations now standing against Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, are yet another reminder of Israel’s misaligned political sphere.
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March 21st, 2018
A fleet against the plastic garbage in our oceans
| in: | Nature, Technology |
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| by: | Frank Odenthal |
Günther Bonin from ONE EARTH ONE OCEAN explains how they fight the huge areas of plastic garbage in the oceans.
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March 19th, 2018
Ethiopia bets on cash and food transfers to cushion rural poor
| in: | Humans, Economy |
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| by: | Bob Koigi |
Ethiopia has been a frontrunner, running one of the largest cash and transfer programme dubbed The Productive Safety Net Programme.
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March 16th, 2018
Forests without Borders
| in: | Nature |
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| by: | Kolawole Talabi |
In Tanzania, one of the most important projects is the establishment, protection and restoration of wildlife corridors linking the country’s [...]
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March 14th, 2018
Payment nightmares hit poor Zimbabweans hard
| in: | Humans, Economy, Technology |
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| by: | Cyril Zenda |
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) promotes the use of electronic payment systems that has only served to worsen the plight of citizens.
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March 12th, 2018
Women fighting sexual cleansing rituals in Kenya
| in: | Humans |
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| by: | Bob Koigi |
In the nondescript Kabuoch village in Western Kenya, a group of women have come together to defy an age old tradition: "sexual cleaning".
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March 07th, 2018
Cradle to Cradle - a concept for an ideal circular economy
| in: | Economy, Technology |
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| by: | Frank Odenthal |
Products that are no longer 'just for sale', but freely available for use? Cradle to Cradle® will go beyond conventional sustainability.
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