New research shows how Windhoek’s ‘Brown is Beautiful’ approach could use its dry landscape to protect the city from heat, drought and floods.
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Trade within the Southern African Development Community is an issue holding back agriculture.
Caregivers said their priorities were pension increases, a dedicated allowance, food security and basic infrastructure.
How the re-elected government uses its new dominance will influence Zambian politics well beyond this election.
Home languages can help children learn English and become stronger readers.
A child born into a community with a history of political unrest is at higher risk of abuse as they grow into a young adult.
Scientists have extracted atoms from eggshells that are 15 million years old which reveal how plants responded to high levels of carbon dioxide.
Unusually for his generation, he never scrambled to gain positions of power after independence.
Without intervention, the important surviving physical evidence and the opportunity for commemoration will be lost.
After the main Namibian party started alternating candidates between men and women, female representation in the National Assembly nearly doubled.
A new book explores the country’s history, from world famous rock art to colonial genocide and the struggle for freedom.
A beautifully written book that shows why nostalgia is not to be trusted.
Some of the dances depicted in rock art are just about entertainment, not ritual.
The story of donkeys in Namibia is one of colonial control but also resistance.
A Namibian desert beetle cools down by running in the sun.
Gold was the first attraction, but late in the 1500s the Portuguese became obsessed with the idea that there were silver mines in Africa.
Factors contributing to school violence are found in the family, the community and the school.
Some countries are making progress but others still face the challenge of weak coordination.
Former residents recall a community nurtured by a spirit of extended family and solidarity.
Appropriate interventions are needed to increase the use of long-acting reversible contraceptives in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Yarik Turianskyi is Manager of the Governance and African Peer Review Mechanism Programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs and guest lecturer in African Governance and Eastern European Politics, University of Pretoria
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