South Africa can – and should – top up child support grants to avoid a humanitarian crisis: Millions of poor South Africans rely on social grants, including the child support grant, just to survive. PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty ImagesSouth Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown is likely to have a devastating impact on the incomes of workers and their dependants. There is broad agreement … [Read more...] about South Africa can – and should – top up child support grants to avoid a humanitarian crisis | The Conversation
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How Africa’s academic diaspora can help revive higher education back home | The Conversation
How Africa's academic diaspora can help revive higher education back home: Academics in the diaspora can help revive the often outdated curriculum and contribute to the needs of the modern, knowledge economy. GettyImagesThe academic world is not as distant from everyday reality as some might think. In the late 1970s, the global commodities crisis reduced export revenue in … [Read more...] about How Africa’s academic diaspora can help revive higher education back home | The Conversation
COVID-19 stalls peacekeeping troop rotation in South Sudan | The Conversation
COVID-19 stalls peacekeeping troop rotation in South Sudan: Members of the South Korean peacekeeping unit at their base in the city of Bor, Jonglei State, South Sudan in July 2015 EPA/YONHAP In early March, South Sudan’s Chief of Defence Forces, Gabriel Jok Riak, asked the Force Commander of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in South Sudan to suspend the peacekeeping … [Read more...] about COVID-19 stalls peacekeeping troop rotation in South Sudan | The Conversation
Predicting COVID-19: what applying a model in Kenya would look like | The Conversation
Predicting COVID-19: what applying a model in Kenya would look like: Staff members of Local NGO Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, on March 20, 2020. Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty ImagesAs the Kenyan government continues to find more cases of COVID-19, test more people and trace those who were in contact with infected people, the number … [Read more...] about Predicting COVID-19: what applying a model in Kenya would look like | The Conversation
South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown: cigarettes and outdoor exercise could ease the tension | The Conversation
South Africa's COVID-19 lockdown: cigarettes and outdoor exercise could ease the tension: There is no documented health benefit that warrants banning cigarette sales for 21 days. Getty ImagesWhat do South Africa, China, Germany, the UK and the US have in common? That each differs from the other. Ample empirical evidence shows that economic and health measures that work … [Read more...] about South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown: cigarettes and outdoor exercise could ease the tension | The Conversation
