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A Dugong in Bazaruto Archipelago National Park, Mozambique. (Andrea Marshall)

Why Mozambique is tracking Dugong movements with satellite technology

Interest in dugong conservation is surging beyond Mozambique, with regional initiatives being launched to protect the sea mammals

Durban beaches are clear of high levels of E coli pollution and open for swimming as the city braces for a bumper festive season. (Photo by Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images)

Durban activists, surfers start clean water lobby

A groundswell of citizens are saying ‘no more’ to the death of the province’s once pristine coastline

People scoop leaked oil from the vessel MV Wakashio, belonging to a Japanese company but Panamanian-flagged, that ran aground and caused oil leakage near Blue bay Marine Park in southeast Mauritius on August 9, 2020. – (Photo by Daren Mauree/L’Express Maurice/AFP via Getty Images)

Cargo ship captain convicted over Mauritius oil spill

The MV Wakashio, a Japanese-owned but Panamanian-flagged vessel, ran aground in July 2020, spilling more than 1,000 tonnes of toxic fuel into the pristine waters of Mauritius,…

Africa and the US under the Biden administration: A response to Moeletsi Mbeki

A democratic administration is likely to revert to the US’s default position on global affairs, which doesn’t leave much for Africa to celebrate

Mind your back! A young King penguin on Marion Island seems curious about the satellite transmitter attached to an older penguin’s back. The device allows scientists to see where penguins go to find food at sea. (Photo: Pierre Pistorius)

E-tracking marine predators to protect Southern Ocean’s rich feeding grounds

Scientists from a number of institutions collaborated to collect data on 17 marine birds and mammals such as penguins, albatrosses, seals and whales in the ocean around Antarctica

As South Africans, we have seen in the early years of our democracy what innate good the country and its people possess
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The South African nation does not exist

There is no deep comradeship, common ancestry or monopoly on the legitimate use of force

Training the staff has been a major part of the project. (Mamyrael/AFP/Getty Images)

From a lake high in Madagascar, Africa’s own caviar

The business is an unlikely project in a country beset by grinding poverty

Prof Peter Burkill and Dr Satheesh Shenoi, Co-Chairs of the IIOE-2 steering committee, at the IIOE-2 conference at Nelson Mandela University in March this year.

Why the Indian Ocean?

The Indian Ocean hasn’t been studied much, but it has a big impact on the world

Dr Nick D’Adamo, director of the Australian node of the IIOE-2 joint project office

No single nation has the capacity

‘The oceans are a global savings account from which we keep making only withdrawals’

Maasai woman and man on the beach in Zanzibar. (Photo: Professor Rose Boswell)

Indian Ocean Africa

To understand the oceans, you must understand the people who live next to them

The archipelago’s President Azali Assoumani has been following the playbook of leaders who intend to stay past their sell-by date. (Tony Karumba/AFP)

Fresh crisis in the Comoros

The arrest of a top opposition leader has plunged the Indian Ocean islands into chaos once again

Mafia Island

Finding Rhapta, East Africa’s lost Roman-era city

Forgotten by history, the ancient city of Rhapta is among Africa’s most enduring archaeological mysteries