FRELIP Editorial Team

This week’s digest features 10 studies, with 6 African-led and 4 global, all from high-impact open-access journals. This week: mother-tongue assessment boosts equity in Ghana, foot dimensions improve forensic sex estimation in Nigeria, transnational TV coproductions preserve cultural specificity, and Hosea’s prophecy speaks to Nigerian corruption.

This week’s digest covers ten open-access law and policy studies, with eight African-led and two global, all journals cited. This week: socio-economic rights litigation and poor women in South Africa, lawyer mental health and burnout, a constitutional case for South Africa’s Basic Income Grant, and EU DSA transparency database shortcomings.

This week in legal and policy research, we feature 10 studies, all African-led except two, from open-access journals. This week: socio-economic rights litigation and poor women in South Africa, lawyer mental health and burnout, constitutional basis for a Basic Income Grant, Western Cape Commissioner for Children, and regulating stock manipulation by influencers.

This week’s digest covers environmental and materials science, with 6 African-led studies and 4 global studies, all from journals including Geoderma Regional, Polymers, and Cell Genomics. This week: wind-driven urban cooling redistribution, magnetic biochar for water treatment, dire wolf ancestry, and CO2-hydrate production optimisation.

This week in Earth, Environmental, and Materials Sciences, we feature ten papers, eight led by African researchers, all published in high-impact open-access journals. This week: sedimentary controls on soil carbonates in Botswana, wind-driven vegetation cooling in cities, seasonal water quality index stability in Algeria, and magnetic biochar for water treatment.

This week in media and journalism research, 6 African-led and 4 global studies are featured, with journals including Journalism Practice, Business Strategy and the Environment, and the Journal of Financial Economics. This week: community radio reporting on South African protests, symbolic adoption of ISSB standards in Morocco, financial regulators’ role in sustainability reporting adoption, and AI illiteracy assessment framework.

This week in multidisciplinary research: 10 studies, with 6 African-led and 4 global, across journals including Journalism Practice, Business Strategy and the Environment, and Journal of Financial Economics. This week: community radio journalists’ precarious reporting in South Africa, symbolic compliance in Moroccan sustainability reporting, financial governance’s role in sustainability standard adoption, and an explainable framework for assessing AI illiteracy.

This week in cross-disciplinary research: 6 African-led studies and 4 global studies, with journals including AGU Advances, PLoS Medicine, and Remote Sensing. This week: space weather economic risks, snakebite burden update, new amoeba species from Ghana, Lake Tana water quality monitoring, and syringa as botanical pesticide.

This week in multidisciplinary science features 10 studies, with 6 African-led and 4 global, across journals including AGU Advances, PLoS Medicine, and Remote Sensing. This week: space weather risk modeling, snakebite burden re-evaluation, new amoeba species from Ghana, water quality monitoring in Ethiopia, syringa as botanical pesticide, and BioMaster for bioinformatics automation.