Tag archive: africa

No Longer Business as Usual: Citizens’ emerging role in enforcing the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Zimbabwe

Prosper Maguchu | 18 Aug 2017

According to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) the responsibility to respect human rights requires that business enterprises: “Avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through their own activities, and address such impacts when they occur.” Moreover, Principle 5 provides that “States should exercise adequate oversight in order to meet their international human rights obligations when they contract with, or legislate for, business enterprises to provide services that may impact upon the enjoyment of human rights.” This seems relevant in the case of the Government of Zimbabwe (Government) contracting a German private company, Giesecke and Devrient (G and D GmbH)‚ to print a surrogate currency “Bond Notes”.…

Camera Traps Reveal Crop-use Behaviour in African Elephants

Josephine Smit | 14 Jul 2017

Researchers have published a new study in the journal Oryx that employed camera traps to investigate crop use by African elephants along the boundary of Udzungwa Mountains National Park in south-central Tanzania.

Journals aid and donation in developing countries: An interview with Anne Powell of INASP

Becky Roberts | 8 May 2016

Cambridge University Press works with several international aid programs to secure sustainable access to research for people living in developing countries.…

Does location matter? A study of malnutrition amongst Ethiopian children

Seifu Hagos | 4 Mar 2016

The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for March is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled: ‘Local spatial clustering of stunting and wasting among children under the age of 5 years: implications for intervention strategies’.

Ivory poachers’ use of poison endangers vultures

Darcy Ogada | 29 Dec 2015

Conservationists warn ivory poachers’ use of poison is further decimating Africa’s endangered vultures

Debate: The ANC in Exile

Kerr Alexander | 3 Feb 2015

Several recent publications have explored the ANC’s external links during South Africa’s apartheid years. Four review texts published as a Debate in the February 2015 issue of Africa offer an insight into attempts to understand this aspect of the ANC’s struggle.…

The politics of exclusion and inclusion in Africa

Kerr Alexander |

Adapted from the introductory article to the latest issue of Africa, a special issue themed around xenophobia, guest editors Laurent Fourchard and Aurelia Segatti expand on the theme of the special issue and articles.…

The Uncertainty of Help

Kerr Alexander | 12 Nov 2014

What role do local institutions of mutual security play in managing the growing economic and political uncertainties in African communities today?…

Africa and the Indian Ocean

Kerr Alexander | 8 Sep 2014

‘Performing Citizenship and Enacting Exclusion On Africa’s Indian Ocean Littoral’ is the latest special feature from The Journal of African History.…

ORYX study indicates large raptors in Africa used for bushmeat

Robin Whytock | 4 Aug 2014

Bushmeat, the use of native animal species for food or commercial food sale, has been heavily documented to be a significant factor in the decline of many species of primates and other mammals.…

Vaccines for malaria and other human protozoal diseases could benefit from animal research

Milton Mccallister | 30 Jun 2014

The June article of the month from Parasitology is “Successful vaccines for naturally occurring protozoal diseases of animals should guide human vaccine research.…

Liberia found to be one of the last strongholds for West African chimpanzees

Jessica Junker | 15 Apr 2014

When Liberia enters the news it is usually in the context of civil war, economic crisis, poverty or a disease outbreak such as the recent emergence of Ebola in West Africa.…