Countries should take an integrated approach to water resource management.

Southern African governments must respond proactively to this new threat.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a special report outlining what would need to be done to keep the world from warming up by more than 1.5°C.

What makes Southern Africans unique? Is it how we see the world? Is it the norms and values instilled in us by our parents in Africa? Is it the African ‘village’ that raised us? Is it the solid foundations our DNA give us, in a unique existence on the southern tip of the continent?

Conservation groups have blasted the Environmental Department for their passive attitude

Democracy is in a parlous state in many countries in southern Africa. Autocrats hold onto power, while electorates have little to choose from at the polls.

The SADC’s credibility is at stake. Its lack of political will in acting decisively against despots is at odds with the African Union’s goal of promoting legitimate governance on the continent.

The average South African is still the richest in Africa, but oil and mining wealth mean that other countries are in hot pursuit – while once-bustling Zimbabwe still bleeds wealth. This was the outcome of a major report on the wealth of Africa’s citizens released this week