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New research has found that thousands of University of Western Cape students can’t afford healthy campus food, and end up eating non-nutritious meals.
While we don’t know what went wrong between Trump and Musk, their feud reveals a potentially impactful disruption in American politics.
Twelve-year-old Tenasoa crawls to work every day at a mine in eastern Madagascar where she collects two kilos of the shiny mineral mica each day. She cannot walk because of a physical disability.
Women in Africa are often framed as especially vulnerable to climate change. Our earlier research suggested that women entrepreneurs often face a “triple differential vulnerabil ...
A new report from the International Labour Organisation outlines a set of propositions on how countries should go about formalising the informal economy. The report provides the basis for negotiations ...
Indoor farming helps northern Manitoba communities access fresh, healthy food and address rising rates of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension.
Click to expand Image Former Israeli Knesset member and current National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (R) and Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich speak in parliament, in Jerusalem, November 15, ...
Monika Korzun, Assistant Professor, Environment and Society, St. Thomas University (Canada) Earlier this year, Donald Trump’s administration in the United States reimposed tariffs on Canadian items, ...
Authoritarian attitudes – the desire for social conformity and an aversion to difference – play an important role in Americans’ willingness to restrict transgender rights.
A scholar of right-wing extremism provides an overview of some of the key white supremacist groups that pose significant threats to public safety.
How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago ...
The governments of Ghana and Zambia recently took a decision that could have serious consequences for other African countries. The decision relates to arrangements on how the two countries will repay ...