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July 12, 2016
In recent years, both the volume and number of data sources have increased at unprecedented rates: In fact, a staggering 90 percent of the data […]
July 6, 2016
On June 13, two weeks before the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, the African Union announced a new “single African passport.” The lead-up […]
July 5, 2016
Kenya’s horticulture industry faced a challenge in 2013—one that led to company shutdowns, a sharp decline in exports and lost livelihoods for more than 5,000 agricultural […]
June 27, 2016
When David Cameron delivered his resignation speech outside No 10 on Friday, he said he would leave the task of triggering article 50 of the […]
June 23, 2016
BREXIT: Hard to tell if Britain is on board an airplane or locked in a car trunk “If you jump out of the aeroplane you cannot […]
April 21, 2016
A woefully low proportion of members of the world’s learned bodies and science academies are women. A report [1] published by the Academy of Science of […]
April 19, 2016
The Panama Papers and the Correlates of Hidden Activity- Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the British Virgin Islands, you might have heard of […]
April 18, 2016
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday as a hostile and corruption-tainted congress voted to impeach her. In a rowdy session of […]
April 12, 2016
Six months into office, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina looks back on his accomplishments and shares his vision for the Bank and for Africa over […]