Cyclone Idai in Mozambique was an opportunity to test ideas about traits that help animals survive natural hazards.
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It’s an achievement in itself that Malawi is holding its sixth multi-party national elections since its transition from dictatorship under former President Kamuzu Banda.
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Diseases like cholera are among the many health crises Cyclone Idai has created.
Three urgent issues at the interplay of foreign and domestic affairs will be of strategic long-term importance to South Africa and Africa.
The flood waters caused by Cyclone Idai have receded. But in some ways, the problems for many of the countries affected, are just beginning.
Cities need to pay attention to how extreme weather events effect their resources.
Focusing on everyday politics can help explain why powerful interest groups undermine policies that might improve the public good.
Climate change is an emergency which will hurt the planet’s most vulnerable people – the only irrational response is cool detachment.
From New Orleans to Haiti to Mozambique, global inequality plays a major role in making disasters deadly.
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Deputy Director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and a member of the joint staff, University of the Witwatersrand
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Pathologist, Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, NICD, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Research Fellow, Centre for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director & SARChI Research Chair: Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor in Animal Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant professor, University of San Francisco
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PhD candidate, University of St Andrews
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Director Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Director of African Climate and Development Initiative, Professor in Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town