The sixth mass extinction of life on Earth is unfolding more quickly than feared, scientists have warned...
12 Jul 2017
The powerful Y'ello Box is bringing 24/7 electricity to Nigeria via your mobile phone...
28 Jun 2017
Entries close on 18 April for the Singularity University, Global Impact Challenge. This challenge is an open call to innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologists to foster moonshot innovations and startups that positively impact the lives of people living in southern Africa...
Mann Made Media 12 Apr 2017
Supporting fisheries, tourism, recreation, and thousands of jobs, a sustainable Benguela Current ecosystem is the lifeblood of the ocean economy on South Africa's West Coast...
24 Mar 2017
If not carefully managed, hydro-electric schemes along Angola's Kwanza River could have severe environmental impacts...
19 Oct 2016
You can't turn on a screen in 2016 without seeing an example of branded content or native advertising flit across your eyes...
Spero Patricios, Launch Factory 18 Jul 2016
Two years ago the World Health Organisation (WHO) identified air pollution as the world's worst environmental health risk...
15 Jul 2016
TOKYO, JAPAN: Japan has pledged at least US$10bn in aid to Africa for the next five years as Tokyo prepares to host a major development conference for the resource-rich continent.
3 Jun 2013
Africa's agricultural‚ mining and energy resources could be better used to boost the continent's pace of economic growth and pave the way for a breakthrough in human development‚ according to a report released on Monday (27 May).
Mariam Isa 28 May 2013
African governments should own at least a 50% of any new mining venture in order to ensure that the country gets more of the revenue from mining projects.
Paul Vecchiatto 13 May 2013
Although Africa made huge strides in increasing human development in the past decade, gains could - with hundreds of millions of people being pushed into extreme poverty - easily be reversed should "significant progress" not be made in halting global warming.
Schalk Mouton 20 Mar 2013
Research in northern Ghana funded by SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) showed that mobile money can help foster a savings culture and address financial exclusion.
Helmo Preuss 27 Feb 2013
