The level of representation of women within the leadership of African tech startups has increased over the last year, but there is plenty of work to be done before true gender equality exists in…
Nigeria's oil sector has been plagued by profiteering, theft and under-investment. Can the new $20bn Dangote refinery and ending expensive fuel subsidies help to transform the industry - and the…
South Africa's first climate change law has just been signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa. It should set South Africans on the path to economic and environmental resilience.
Barely a month…
Developing technologies to make the world's agricultural and food industries more sustainable, including in Africa. This is what the 2024 edition of the AgVenture competition, recently launched by…
Heavy rains and floods have affected several parts of India in recent weeks, killing scores of people and displacing thousands of others.
Floods are not uncommon in the country - or South Asia - at…
Repeating false and sceptical claims about climate science makes them seem more credible – including to people who accept the science and are alarmed by the climate crisis – new research has found.…
“If Antarctica were music, it would be Mozart,” the Australian broadcaster Andrew Denton once wrote, after one of his many (at least seven) trips to the continent. “Art, and it would be Michelangelo…
In its pomp during the 1970s, Ardersier port near Inverness was a behemoth of Scottish industry. During the North Sea oil and gas boom, thousands worked on one of the largest rig construction sites…
A sign warns tourists of extreme heat in Death Valley national park in July in California. Photograph: Daniel Jacobi II/AP
Earth’s string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to…
A single arched concrete block juts out of a field in Senegal where R&B singer Akon first laid the foundation stone for his $6 billion metropolis four years ago.
The West African nation granted…
Naked mole rats’ burrows are steaming hot but they like to sleep huddled together for warmth. Photograph: Ger Bosma/Alamy
To read about the naked mole rat is to come across information that you wish…
PARIS (AP) — Olympic boxer Imane Khelif said the wave of hateful scrutiny she has faced over misconceptions about her gender “harms human dignity,” and she called for an end to bullying athletes…
An ongoing excavation in Damietta, Egypt, has uncovered 63 tombs from more than 2,500 years ago, alongside a trove of gold artifacts, coins and pottery.
World leaders are scrambling to avert a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah. There is another war, on a scale perhaps unimaginable to many, they should rush to prevent as well.
Cameroon is a major exporter of food to neighboring countries like Chad, Gabon, and Nigeria, as well as internationally to countries like China (25.8% of exports), the Netherlands (12.4%), Spain (6.1…
ACCRA, July 30 (Reuters) - Ghana's lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law to give more opportunities to women at the national level, the speaker of parliament said, with a target to increase their…
TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with Bujagali Energy Ltd as part of its plans to invest in energy projects, particularly renewable energy.
The deal will see the oil company acquire a 28.3 per…
For the two hours drivers can spend on the eight-lane, often empty, highway from Cairo to El Dabaa on the north coast, all there is to see is miles and miles of intensively farmed land on each side.…
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