It is not clear yet whether the Taliban government will clamp down on the illicit trade The post Afghanistan’s poppy fields bloom appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Trees are most vulnerable to human-caused climate change because they can’t migrate fast enough to survive The post Quiver trees must get on the move to escape human-caused climate change appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Beauty pageants are political. Calling these women role models, talking about their natural hair, their ambition, their voice is all political. Representing a country on a global stage is also political The post South Africans are rightly up in arms...

Civil society has called for an investigation into King Mswati’s alleged crimes against humanity The post ‘Gross human rights abuses’ in Eswatini appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

A United Nations spokesperson said the latest detentions had occurred in the capital of Afar province, on the only functional road leading into famine-threatened Tigray. The post Ethiopia detains 72 World Food Programme drivers appeared first on The...

But the oil and gas giant says it follows international best practice The post Shell’s seismic survey on the Wild Coast will be destructive, scientist says appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels The post Abdulrazak Gurnah: Nobel prize honours a self-effacing and unassuming talent appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

The last days of COP26 have been marred by backtracking and what human and environmental rights watchdogs are calling ‘weak texts’ The post As climate talks hit the final stretch, some countries seek to water down commitments appeared first on T...

A list compiled by Sandile Ngidi The post Lewis Nkosi Selected Milestones: Writing and Honours (COMPILED BY SANDILE NGIDI) appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

In his lifetime, Lewis Nkosi arguably saw little effort in terms of intense engagement with his controversial critical inputs. In a review of a new anthology, Unathi Slasha tries to correct that The post Lewis Nkosi: The physical bearer of the offen...