FRELIP Editorial Team

This week in law and social policy, ten open-access studies, most of them African-led, appear in journals including the South African Journal on Human Rights, Argumentation and Advocacy and Criminal Law Forum. This week: socio-economic rights litigation and poor women in South Africa, the constitutional case for a Basic Income Grant, the Western Cape Commissioner for Children, lawyer burnout and mental health, and smell-based identification evidence for visually impaired employees.

This week in law and society research, we feature 10 studies, with 6 African-led and 4 global, all from high-impact open-access journals. This week: socio-economic rights litigation’s limits for poor women, constitutional basis for a Basic Income Grant, lawyer mental health and burnout, smell evidence for visually impaired in sexual offence cases, and permitless carry laws’ effect on crime.

This environmental and life sciences digest covers ten open-access studies, all with named journals cited; eight are African-led or Africa-focused and two are global. This week: carbonate accumulation controls in semi-arid Botswana, cerium phosphate nanocomposites with cellulose and metronidazole, integrated flood vulnerability on the eThekwini coast, deep carbonate aquifer conductivity gaps, Sundarbans deep groundwater hydrochemistry, a decade of PrEP initiation in KwaZulu-Natal, ship carbon emission mapping, hydrate gas production via CO2 replacement, dire wolf ancestry, and early outcomes of England’s biodiversity offset market.

This week in environmental and earth sciences features nine open-access studies, all with African-led authorship, published in journals including Geoderma Regional, Polymers, Progress in Disaster Science, Sustainability, Environmental Sciences Europe, AIDS Care, Applied Energy, Energies, Cell Genomics and Conservation Biology. This week: carbonate controls in semi-arid Botswana, flood vulnerability on the eThekwini coast, deep aquifer vulnerability in the Sundarbans, a decade of PrEP initiation in KwaZulu-Natal, and dire wolf ancestry outside the living wolf lineage.

This week in multidisciplinary research, we feature 10 studies, 6 of which are African-led, with journals cited. This week: older adults’ engagement with AI-generated imagery, community radio journalists’ safety in South Africa, symbolic compliance with sustainability reporting in Morocco, a framework for organisational AI literacy, personality predictors in sub-Saharan Africa, ESG and bank stability, ChatGPT stock forecasting, flood impacts on European firms, virtual influencer impact, and Shapley value in cost-sharing games.

This week’s multidisciplinary digest features 10 studies, with 6 African-led and 4 global, from journals including International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Journalism Practice, and Journal of Financial Economics. This week: AI imagery boosts older adult engagement, community radio journalists navigate protest risks, symbolic adoption of sustainability reporting in Morocco, a framework for AI illiteracy, personality predicts life outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, and more.

This week’s digest covers quantum computing, microbiology, public health, chemistry, cancer biology, statistics, physics, ecology, bioinformatics, and geometry, with 8 African-led and 2 global studies; journals are cited. This week: Toffoli gate fidelity limits, a new amoeba species from Ghana, hearing loss in intellectual disability, 7SK-driven colorectal cancer resistance, and relative density in capture–recapture models.

This week’s digest covers 10 open-access papers in quantum physics, microbiology, public health, chemistry, computational biology, statistics, high-energy physics, ecology, bioinformatics, and mathematics, with 7 African-led studies and 3 global ones, all from journals including Springer, Wiley, PLOS, Elsevier, and Taylor & Francis. This week: practical fidelity limits of Toffoli gates in superconducting quantum processors, a new amoeba species from Ghana, hearing loss among people with intellectual disabilities in Germany, and a dual-axis mechanism of cancer resistance by non-coding RNA 7SK.

This week’s digest spans agricultural science, plant biology, and food safety, featuring 6 African-led studies and 4 global studies from journals like Plants, International Journal of Food Microbiology, and Current Biology. This week: papaya Salmonella risk in Benin, conflict-driven food insecurity in Nigeria, land registration benefits in Malawi, and AI-powered cotton pest counting.

This digest covers agricultural and environmental sciences with 10 studies, 5 African-led and 5 global, from journals like Plants, International Journal of Food Microbiology, and Current Biology. This week: silicon-nutrient combos boost stress tolerance, street papaya poses Salmonella risk, conflict worsens food insecurity in Nigeria, land registration improves Malawi food security, and smart inputs offer low-cost soil solutions.