Global Perspectives

Health authorities estimate each infectious person could pass the virus onto two others. Jerome Favre/AAP

How contagious is the Wuhan coronavirus and can you spread it before symptoms start?

Cases of the Wuhan coronavirus have increased dramatically over the past week, prompting concerns about how contagious the virus is and how it spreads.

January 31, 2020
Published in Health

Construction underway of a new port at Lamu, Kenya. Michael Edward Walsh/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

How mega infrastructure projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America are reshaping development

Huge investments in infrastructure are redefining global development, from China’s Belt and Road Initiative to infrastructure development plans from the African Development Bank and the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America.

November 2, 2019
Published in World Economy

The UK’s prime minster, Boris Johnson, with BBC political correspondent Laura Kuenssberg. BBC News

Journalists must not allow themselves to be used by unscrupulous politicians

Here are three questions that anyone interested in the health of UK democracy should be asking. Should reputable political journalists allow themselves to be exploited as conduits for the unfiltered messages of political leaders?

November 2, 2019
Published in Politics

Russian President Vladimir Putin (waving) with some of the heads of state who attended the first Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Russia. SEFE-EPA-Pool/Sergei Chirikov

Russia steps up efforts to fill gaps left by America’s waning interest in Africa

The Russian government and state companies signed dozens of memoranda of understanding and agreements during the first Russia-Africa Summit in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi last week. Russia also promised further cooperation, building on recent agreements with individual African governments.

November 2, 2019
Published in World Economy

Africa’s Catholic churches face competition and a troubled legacy as they grow

Pope Francis has completed his seven-day tour of three African countries: Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius. It was a significant trip for a number of reasons.

September 12, 2019
Published in Lifestyle

Still from the movie Un rêve français (“A French Dream”) by Christian Faure, which tells the story of a young Guadeloupean couple during a little-known, tragic time of French post-colonial history. Eloa Prod 2018

A French ‘Windrush’? When French Caribbeans were treated as second-class citizens

The ongoing “Windrush” scandal continues to dominate the news in the UK. We have been scandalised by the appalling treatment of people from the Commonwealth Caribbean who were encouraged to come to Britain to help reduce labour shortages after World War II. They made Britain their home, but in recent years have faced deportation if they could not prove when they arrived.

September 12, 2019
Published in Lifestyle

A woman holds the flags of the African Union and Ethiopia during celebrations to mark the Ethiopian New Year Sabir Olad/Wikimedia Commons

Ethiopia’s new year offers a chance to unite the country

Meskerem is the first month in Ethiopia’s unique 13-month calendar. Ethiopia celebrates its New Year on the first day of Meskerem, which falls on September 12 of the internationally recognised Gregorian calendar. But amid the celebrations, there are still concerns about the country’s peace and stability.

September 12, 2019
Published in Lifestyle

Why the DRC Ebola outbreak was declared a global emergency and why it matters

In mid-July the WHO declared the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

August 21, 2019
Published in Health

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