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The law prohibiting abuse of the naira violates Nigerian cultural and traditional practices.
With a new 5-in-1 vaccine, Nigeria hopes to contain the five most important serotypes causing meningitis in the country.
Chaque année, 40 millions d'enfants naissent dans des régions d'Afrique touchées par le paludisme. Deux nouveaux vaccins sont des armes importantes dans la lutte contre cette maladie.
Les premières études scientifiques spécialisées ont confirmé la présence de baleines bleues aux Seychelles.
Commerce, culture and heritage mix in rather strange and sometimes unsettling ways in South Africa, especially when the struggle for freedom is commemorated.
African cities with over 10 million residents are getting hotter fast. Millions face disaster in these urban heat islands unless the cities start greening and adapting to climate change soon.
The South African novelist messes with the line between fiction and non-fiction.
Planting millions of trees in natural grassland is largely ineffective in the battle against global warming because it adds little or no additional carbon storage.
La Tunisie n'a pas réussi à exploiter pleinement le potentiel touristique héritage de la ville antique et de son environnement naturel.
At 88 the artist Esther Mahlangu is world famous and is the subject of a major exhibition in Cape Town.
Les stylistes d'Afrique de l'Ouest ne produisent que les vêtements dont ils ont besoin, permettant d'éviter le gaspillage et de laisser libre cours à la créativité.
Le groupe armé RED-Tabara opère dans la région orientale instable de la RDC, qui partage une frontière poreuse de 243 km avec le Burundi.
After 30 years of democracy, South Africa is in a deep electricity crisis which can only be solved if the government moves speedily to set up solar and wind plants.
The University of Cape Town’s new report on the impacts of climate change in South Africa found that heatwaves and water stress will affect jobs, deepen inequality, and increase gender-based violence.
Wrapped in Rhythm powerfully uses the poems of Lebo Mashile as lyrics.
Lake Kariba stretches between Zimbabwe and Zambia. Its residents are bearing the brunt of a climate change-induced drought, with fish supplies dwindling and human-wildlife conflict occurring.
Through collaboration and resource sharing, smallholder rice farmers can enhance their productivity and achieve a fully mechanised farming system.
The African wild dog has been left without habitat to naturally disperse and breed. Scientists will set up the first-ever sperm bank to inseminate wild dogs and ensure that the species survives.
The South African government has finally decided to shut down the captive lion industry, but has not set a deadline for when lion breeding and hunting will end.
The tunnel bringing millions of litres of water from dams in Lesotho to South Africa is to undergo a six-month repair. This could leave residents of Gauteng in South Africa short of water.
Le génocide rwandais de 1994 a laissé des traces indélébiles. Les enfants nés de violences sexuelles et les mères ont fait preuve d'une immense force pour surmonter leur histoire de violence.
L'Afrique possède le plus grand potentiel de croissance numérique inexploité au monde.
Fuji music is a way of life for millions of Yoruba people. It’s the prism through which they understand their world.
Governments in southern Africa don’t invest enough in weather forecasting and fail to work together to prepare for natural disasters, leaving the most vulnerable exposed to successive droughts.