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Rainforests may have played far more of a role in shaping human evolution than previously thought.
A lighting revolution is underway across Africa that’s occurred largely without government or donor involvement.
Providing people with clean drinking water and sanitation is less expensive than grid electrification and it could improve more lives.
In many ways US-Kenya relations is in uncharted territory.
Pollution is killing people in the developing world at an alarming rate. While there are many reasons for this, one looms large: China.
Nobel prize winning author Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was as hard on himself as on others.
Is it always good to talk about violent pasts? Sixty Rwandan youths participated in a research project that aimed to understand the perspectives of people born of rapes committed during the genocide
The longest lunar eclipse this century, and other special features such as Mars looking spectacular will be seen.
Barack Obama is delivering the Nelson Mandela lecture in a changing world dominated by the often outrageous utterances of his successor, US President Donald Trump.
An investigative work by journalist Judi Rever is an indictment, describing massacres committed by the Kagame regime so as to establish their qualification as a genocide.
The 10th BRICS Summit will be judged by how it tackles the prevailing global political and structural challenges.
Desertification is a problem of global proportions. If action isn’t taken now, it will accelerate and fuel further migration and conflict.
Increasingly, young people across Africa are taking up Nelson Mandela’s challenge of working to improve the lives of ordinary people.
The Viva Tech Fair took place in May 2018 in Paris, showcasing innovation in Africa. The continent’s fablabs, driven by digital tools and collaborative dynamics, are shaking up traditional foundations.
Scientists have created embryos from the eggs of southern white rhino and sperm from their northern counterparts.
The Mediterranean fruit fly can evolve rapidly to different environmental conditions, this suggests it will be well suited to cope with climate change.
Conservationists scaled the sheer cliffs of Mount Lico as part of wider effort to build the case for the protection of Mozambique’s mountain forests.
As in the Mediterranean, travel through the Sahara is difficult and unnecessarily dangerous by increased checks and control.
In South Africa, Cape Town fears “Day Zero”, when the city will have to ration water drastically. The phenomenon threatens other cities as well but solutions exist.
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