One of Africa's Big Five countries is shown on world maps to be half the size it actually is, while a small European country appears to be double its real area. World maps show country sizes to be ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Africa may be set to transform itself from a relative clean-energy laggard into a power-sector pioneer. African power firms have plans to dramatically ...

South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...

The October 2024 edition of Africa’s Pulse reports a fragile economic recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa, with growth projected at 3% in 2024, up from 2.4% in 2023, driven by increased private consumption ...

Last year, Uber launched its first e-bike fleet in Africa on Nairobi’s streets. In the first six months of this year the number of registered EVs in Kenya tripled. Similar trends are apparent in ...

Africa’s working-age population is growing faster than any other region, driven by progress in child survival over the last two decades. Yet, Sub-Saharan Africa invests less in education per capita ...

Macguire outlined how Bellingcat has used OSINT to support its investigations across Africa, and he provided key tools and ..

Birthrates, and the decisions couples make about family size, are changing across Africa. By Ruth Maclean Photographs by Yagazie Emezi Ruth Maclean and Yagazie Emezi traveled to Kano, Nigeria’s ...

After falling steadily for decades, the prevalence of global hunger is now on the rise—nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, where conflicts, economic fallout from the covid-19 pandemic ...

Elba, whose parents hail from Sierra Leone and Ghana, is on a mission to transform the entertainment industry in Africa. His vision is ambitious. Elba aims to build film studios across Africa ...

Darko-Sarfo’s case illustrates many of the possibilities this new technology offers for Africa and in developing nations more generally, but also the pitfalls. On one hand, an AI-powered device ...

GENEVA, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Millions of people across southern Africa are facing the worst food crisis in decades, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, warning that its ability to ...