The world faces a make-or-break moment in the fight against climate change. We are running out of time to make our economies greener and avoid the tipping point when climate change slides out of…
Much of the conversation surrounding the ecological benefits of tropical rainforests focuses on South America's Amazon. However, the forests of Central Africa are just as important.
An ambitious seven-volume encyclopedia captures the wealth of architectural wonders in 49 sub-Saharan African countries.
The miragelike Grand Mosque of Djenne in Mali could have very well have…
Preliminary results suggest the vaccine is up to 77% effective in young children, but researchers await larger studies.
A vaccine against malaria has shown promise in early clinical trials, raising…
The French energy firm Total SE announced yesterday that it has halted all operations on its $20 billion investment in a liquefied natural gas project in northern Mozambique as a result of the…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is approving €340 million for water and renewable energy in Africa. The loans are for the construction of sustainable infrastructure in Mali, Chad, Guinea, Malawi…
The African Continental Free Trade Area is a positive step, but it is no panacea. If Africa is to overcome barriers to structural transformation and industrialization, a broader strategy, based on…
When it comes to the final frontier for big oil discoveries, it’s not the Guyana-Suriname basin where supergiants like ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES), and CNOOC (NYSE:CNOOC) have…
Ugandans have always eaten a lot of bananas. Now a local start-up reckons it can extract even more value from overlooked parts of the crop.
TexFad is using natural banana fibre to produce…
The last in our series where we explore the role the continent has to play in delivering net zero
Welcome to our new podcast series, Gaia Says No! – Africa, where we will explore the role the…
ucked away by the Ethiopian border, Sudan's Dinder National Park boasts the country's most diverse wildlife, but rangers face a daily battle to protect it as human encroachment mounts.
Spread over…
Officials say some residents of Cape Town neighbourhoods evacuated as ‘precautionary’ measure after fire sweeps across the slopes of Table Mountain.
People were evacuated from Cape Town…
Burkina Faso intends to be a pioneer in the development of micro-irrigation.
This agricultural method aims to bring water to the foot of the plant, which is usually drip-fed, through a surface or…
The World Bank Group’s MIGA has issued guarantees of up to $37.1 million to the African Infrastructure Investment Fund 3 (AIIF3) to cover the fund’s equity and quasi-equity/shareholder loan…
The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has closed the country’s only wild rhino sanctuary to the public amid an ongoing dispute between the owners of the land and Rhino Fund Uganda - the organisation…
ReconAfrica believes the Kavango Basin in Namibia and Botswana could generate billions of barrels of oil, but environmentalists and Indigenous leaders want the area to remain untouched.
Windhoek,…
As teenage pregnancies soared during coronavirus lockdowns in Africa's largest urban slum, Kibera, teachers and parents looked for a way to reduce the problem.
Their idea was to form a women's…
(CNN)A rare tropical cyclone is approaching Tanzania and could become the first cyclone to make landfall in the nation in modern records.
Tropical Cyclone Jobo, located near Madagascar in the South…
TUESDAY 20 April 2021 (New York, New York USA and Libreville, Gabon). The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) today announced…
A US-based designer has apologised for using a portrait of a historic mosque in Kenya's island of Lamu on a T-shirt worn by celebrity Jay-Z, an official in charge of the site has told the BBC.…
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