• Tue Sep 08 02:39:56 SAST 2015
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With elections set for next year, teachers are considering strike action. Picture: REUTERS/MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG

Doctors end strike, but Ghana remains turbulent

Big test ahead for President John Mahama as he fights for re-election, writes Matthew Mpoke Bigg

SA and Ghana turn to floating power

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The estimated costs of power ships are significantly higher than independent power producers — as a short-term solution they need to be interrogated further, writes Busisipho Siyobi

Vultures’ decline upsets Maasai Mara ecology

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Far-reaching effects of poaching, poisoning and other human interventions decimate vultures, the most efficient cleaners in the natural world, writes Marc Santora

Ethiopia powers up a green economy

Ethiopia wind farm. Picture: REUTERS/KUMERRA GEMECHU

Ambitious wind-power driven green project makes Ethiopia a model state ahead of Paris climate conference, writes Laurence Caramel

History bedevils president in sanitising corrupt Nigerian oil sector

Nigeria oil. Picturre: REUTERS/AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE

State-owned oil firm needs to be depoliticised and its vested interests separated, write Dulue Mbachu, Elisha Bala-Gbogbo and Paul Wallace

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