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Motorists drive at night on a road without street light as Nigeria struggles with power outages in a commercial district of Lagos. Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images

Why Nigeria’s electricity grid collapses and how to shore it up

Nigeria’s national electricity grid has collapsed more than 200 times since 2010, regularly resulting in widespread blackouts.
A mural along Haile Selassie avenue in Nairobi, Kenya. Boniface Muthoni/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Wins, missteps and lessons: African experts reflect on two years of COVID response

It’s a huge cause for concern that, two years into the pandemic, the disparities and unequal power structures in global health are still intact.
Mistletoes parasitising African locust bean trees in Amurum Forest Reserve. Abidemi Raji

Mistletoes, locust bean trees and birds work together in Nigeria’s forest ecology

Reforestation programmes should consider the parasitic relationship between mistletoes and their hosts and their ecological benefits for bird diversity.
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, speaks during a special session of the General Assembly on March 02, 2022. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Russia-Ukraine war: decoding how African countries voted at the UN

The resolution is not legally binding, but is an expression of the views of the UN membership.
Fuel scarcity in Nigeria causes untold hardship to people and negatively impacts the economy. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Nigeria’s fuel crisis: smaller, more flexible refineries aren’t the full answer

As a short term measure, modular refineries may help Nigeria with its fuel crisis. It is however not likely to be a long term solution.

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