August 05, 2022
Nigeria: Women Play a Key Role in Food & Nutrition Security in Nigeria
In Nigeria, women play key roles in food and nutrition security through their contributions to agricultural production, their influence on how to allocate household income, and… Read more »
July 29, 2022
Zimbabwe: Unsung Living HIV/Aids Hero Spreads Message of Hope
In 2001, when Reki Jimu was 30 years old, his wife died aged 27. Read more »
July 13, 2022
Africa: News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. - Michel de Montaigne Read more »
July 05, 2022
Africa: Animals Are Core to Pandemic Prevention - We Must Strengthen Their Defences
The writer is executive director of HealthforAnimals, the global animal health association Read more »
June 24, 2022
Africa: A Frightening View - Inside the Eye of the 'Hurricane of Hunger' #AfricaClimateCrisis
When I first met Dr. Roland Bunch, I have to be honest--he scared me. As one of the most well-respected leaders on agronomy and resilient land management, he offers extremely… Read more »
June 22, 2022
Africa: Stronger Healthcare Systems Critical for Africa's Socioeconomic Transformation
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems globally have battled to deal with the repercussions unleashed by the disease. From the outset, Africa was… Read more »
Nigeria: Polio Eradication Will Take Funds and Awareness
For forty days, Kunle Adeyanju - a Nigerian, Rotarian, polio eradication advocate and biker - rode for more than 12,500km from London to Lagos to raise funds for polio eradication. Read more »
June 21, 2022
Africa: Tobacco Consumption Slows in the West, Grows in Africa - Researchers
Cigarette smuggling has emerged as one of the most lucrative enterprises between Zimbabwe and South Africa, with border authorities seizing contraband worth millions of dollars in… Read more »
June 20, 2022
Africa: The Battle for Covid-19 Vaccines - the Rich Prevail Over the Poor
The 164-member World Trade Organization (WTO) has implicitly rubber-stamped a widely-condemned policy of "vaccine apartheid" which has discriminated the world's poorer nations,… Read more »
June 08, 2022
Africa: African Solutions to African Problems - Reframing Science Innovation
Africa is plagued by many epidemics -- from tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS to malaria and wild polio -- but the continent has also worked for decades to fight these threats. The key to… Read more »
May 24, 2022
Nigeria: Corruption Kills
Nigeria's accountant-general, the administrative head of the country's treasury, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly stealing 80 billion… Read more »
May 19, 2022
South Africa: As Covid Wanes, Tuberculosis Deaths Must Become Visible
It is time to treat the scourge of Tuberculosis scourge with the same urgency as we did the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »
Africa: Debt Distress in Africa - Problems and Ways Forward
The COVID pandemic has had a profoundly negative impact on Africa's sovereign debt situation. Currently, 22 countries are either in debt distress or at high risk of debt distress. Read more »
March 28, 2016
Malawi: Saving Children's Lives Through Drones
The first successful test-flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone was an unhindered 10 km journey from a community health centre to the Kamuzu central hospital… Read more »
December 17, 2010
Africa: Scientists Focus On Male Mosquitoes in Bid to Control Malaria
After successfully suppressing scourges of fruit, tsetse and screwworm flies in the Americas, researchers are exploring whether the same sterilised insect technique can be used to… Read more »
August 10, 2010
Kenya: Deadly Cactus Good for Animal Feed
Joseph Ole Morijo is baffled by research findings that cactus plants can be used as animal fodder during drought. Not after he lost his entire herd of 152 goats and sheep to the… Read more »
January 02, 2008
South Africa: Government Set to Reach Sanitation Target, But is It Enough?
The South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry has narrowly missed one of its most important targets, aimed at improving sanitation for the country's poorest people -… Read more »
August 25, 2006
Africa: A Ghastly Disease Feeds Off a Ghastlier Oppression
Gender inequality has become the main driver of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially in Africa, where 70 percent of those infected are women. Read more »