In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

Most of the population growth expected over the rest of the 21st century is expected to take place in Africa. These new ...

In it, he advocates the distribution of chickens in sub-Saharan Africa as a means of alleviating extreme poverty – improving the lot of people making less than US$2 a day. Gates argues that ...

Tatu City outside Kenya's capital is a startup city, privately owned and with aspirations of eventually having a population ...

The Africa Youth Employment Clock, a lobby, indicates that in 2025, about 121 million youth aged between 15 and 35 will be ...

Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor people in rural ...

Africa has seen a wave of youth-led protests fuelled by frustrations over rampant corruption, poor governance, high living ...

But there is no reason to catastrophise or give up hope. If other continents can prosper, so can Africa. It is time its ...

While 2025 is still very early, so far there hasn’t been much positive movement in the fortunes of Africa’s richest ...

The chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has congratulated the military-led government of Gabon ...

But in sub-Saharan Africa, champions of the idea hope that new-city developments can address the continent’s urbanization conundrum: While the growth of cities has rolled back poverty elsewhere ...