Africa

A South African Professor has warned that excessive intake of Vitamin D has adverse effect in the fight against Covid-19. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases' Professor Adrian Puren said, "associations are not necessarily…

Maurice Stierl, University of Warwick A black baby was born on a boat on the Mediterranean Sea in late June. Its mother was trying to escape from Libya, together with 92 men and women. Help was on the way, with the Italian rescue vessel…

AU Special Envoy for COVID-19 and pan-African businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa has reflected on how he worked with the armies of African countries during the Ebola pandemic. Masiyiwa writes: Sometimes we have to think…

Hailay Gesesew, Flinders University The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently noted that “researchers are working at break-neck speed” to understand SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19). They are also…

Adem K Abebe, University of Pretoria Lazarus Chakwera’s victory as the new president of Malawi represents a remarkable reversal of fortunes for Peter Mutharika, who almost a year ago was declared the winner in national polls. But the…

In recent weeks, many countries across the world, including South Africa joined protests in support of #BlackLivesMatter after the murder of George Floyd. The hashtag #ZimbabweansMustFall started to trend on twitter over the last 18 hours.…

There has been a ray of hope: a landmark production-cut agreement among OPEC, OPEC+ and G20 stakeholders on April 12 put an end to the oil price war

Aroop Chatterjee, University of the Witwatersrand; Amory Gethin, and Léo Czajka The consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown are yet to be fully determined and understood. But one thing we can be fairly certain of – in South Africa its…

Astrid R.N. Haas, International Growth Centre The power of cities comes from the number of interactions they enable, between people, firms and markets - they are centres of social interaction. For all their virtues, however, cities have…

JOHANNESBURG - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa has soared to a 116. There are now 31 new cases from Tuesday night's announcement. Six of the new cases are local transmissions. "As part of tracking and…