by kaymusonda | Sep 7, 2023 | Africa, Animal Rights, South Africa, The Commonwealth
By Professor Keith Somerville Africans Parks, the Johannesburg-based non-profit conservation organisation, announced on 4th September that it was going to buy rhino owner John Hume’s Buffalo Dreams Ranch and its 2,000 southern white rhinos. The organisation said that...
by kaymusonda | Sep 7, 2023 | Africa, Elections, The Commonwealth
By Professor Sue Onslow Late on Saturday night, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced the expected result of the country’s harmonized elections: Emmerson Mnangagwa re-elected as president with 52.9%, his CCC challenger Nelson Chamisa with 44%. ZANU-PF...
by kaymusonda | Jun 16, 2023 | Africa, Animal Rights, The Commonwealth
By Professor Keith Somerville Fifteen years ago a survey of Garamba National Park (NP) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sadly concluded that the last wild northern white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) had died and that the sub-species of white rhino was...
by kaymusonda | May 22, 2023 | Asia, Elections, India, The Commonwealth
By Professor James ManorThe Karnataka election may eventually be seen as a watershed. It has set in motion two potential changes to the fundamentals of that state’s politics. If either or both become lasting realities, the Congress Party stands to benefit. The first,...
by kaymusonda | May 22, 2023 | Asia, Elections, India, The Commonwealth
By Professor James ManorAny ruling party in Karnataka can expect to struggle to win re-election. No government has achieved that since 1985. The state’s voters are demanding, sophisticated and impatient. But Basavaraj Bommai’s BJP government faces additional problems....
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