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The Year of the Locust

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About 25 years ago, Baldwyn Torto and his team taught themselves to talk to locusts. Now, Simon Allison brings you the story of the swarms eating their way across the continent
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First UN ‘mercy flight’ leaves Yemen’s rebel-held Sanaa

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Yemeni children in critical need of medical care were evacuated Monday from the rebel-held capital Sanaa, in what the United Nations hopes will be...
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Water ‘wars’ wash over the world

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Conflicts have doubled in the past decade, with 26% of these occurring on the African continent
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Africa must help end the war on its doorstep in Yemen

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The Horn of Africa will not get stability and security without accountability and peace in neighboring Yemen
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Sudan’s generals should be targeted with global sanctions

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The EU must monitor military leaders, rather than use them to outsource migration control
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Trump vetoes bill to end US support for Saudi-led Yemen war

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The veto was the second of his presidency
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Classified note confirms French weaponry in Yemen: report

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Rights groups have regularly accused Paris of being complicit in alleged war crimes committed in Yemen
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Japan stops journalist going to Yemen

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The decision came amid debate in Japan about whether journalists should be prevented from going to war zones
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Amnesty report says SA arms diverted to Yemeni militia

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Between 2015 and the end of 2017, South Africa transferred $62-million worth of major conventional weapons to the UAE
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‘This is how we welcomed 2019’: Civilians killed in Houthi attack

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A woman and a child killed and 16 others wounded after Yemeni rebels shell a residential neighbourhood in besieged Taiz
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Are Sudan’s protests against Bashir regime doomed to fail?

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Though a diplomatic pariah, Omar al-Bashir's Western back channel support means he holds the cards in a standoff unlikely to deliver major change
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Netflix drops satire episode critical of Saudi Arabia

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The episode can still be seen in other parts of the world — and in Saudi Arabia on YouTube
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Tourism can push Africa onto a new path – minister

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The continent is fast becoming a dynamic sought-after tourist destination
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South Africa’s education system is broken and unequal, and must be fixed without further delay

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The Amnesty International report found that the South African government continues to miss its own education upgrading targets
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Conferences connect people to ideas

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Digging deep

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TFSAs are the gymnasts of the retirement savings world

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