September 05
South Africa: Meteorite Strike in South Africa - Scientists Offer Clues About What It Is and Where It Came From
On a Sunday morning in late August 2024 a nine-year-old girl named Eli-zé du Toit was sitting on her grandparents' porch near a small town in South Africa's Eastern Cape… Read more »
South Africa: Technology Classes At School Can Also Teach Skills for Business and Life - South African Teachers Share Ideas
Starting and running your own business takes hard work and a can-do attitude. Typically, entrepreneurs are the kinds of people who can identify and solve problems innovatively, are… Read more »
September 04
Africa: Long Covid Inflicts Deep Scars On the Lungs, but Targeting Specific Immune Cells Could Reverse Damage - New Research in Mice
The long-term effects of respiratory viral infections such as COVID-19 are a major public health burden. Some estimates suggest over 65 million people around the world suffer from… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Is the World's Largest Producer of Cobalt - How Control By Local Elites Can Shape the Global Battery Industry
The mineral-rich Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is often portrayed as a victim of exploitation by China, the US and Europe in their competition for its minerals, which are… Read more »
Africa: Looting of African Heritage - a Powerful New Book Explores the Damage Done By Colonial Theft
European colonisation of Africa was not only about armed conquest, massacres and the exploitation of resources. It was also about the appropriation of spiritual and political… Read more »
South Africa: South African Heritage Tourism Could Uplift Rural Communities, With a Little Help - the Case of Sekhukhune
Imagine visiting a remote valley surrounded by mountains, hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest city, listening to local people explaining hundreds of years of history to… Read more »
Kenya: Kenyan Artists Reflect Gen Z Hopes and Frustrations in New Exhibition
As young protesters in Kenya took to the streets in June to demand the government account for its spending of taxpayers' money, the Wajukuu Art Project was opening a new exhibition… Read more »
Africa: Chinese and Russian Disinformation Flourishes in Some African Countries - Anti-U.S. Sentiment Helps It Take Hold
The spread of disinformation is one of the biggest risks to societies. Recent examples have been conspiracy narratives about COVID-19 vaccinations and false claims about Russia's… Read more »
Africa: Humans Infecting Animals Infecting Humans - From Covid-19 to Bird Flu, Preventing Pandemics Requires Protecting All Species
When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, humans had been the only species with reported cases of the disease. While early genetic analyses… Read more »
September 03
Africa: Mobile Phones Are Not Linked to Brain Cancer, According to a Major Review of 28 Years of Research
A systematic review into the potential health effects from radio wave exposure has shown mobile phones are not linked to brain cancer. The review was commissioned by the World… Read more »
Ghana: Victory for Women's Rights in Ghana As Affirmative Action Law Is Passed - What Must Happen Next
The passage of the Affirmative Action (Gender Equality) Bill by the country's parliament on 9 August 2024 marked a victory for women's rights in Ghana. The bill, which has been… Read more »
Africa: China's Investments in Africa Aren't Working As Well As They As They Should for Cities - This Needs to Change
Over the past two decades African leaders have become increasingly drawn to Chinese financing and investment. These investments are made rapidly and with reportedly less stringent… Read more »
September 02
Africa: China's Interests in Africa Are Being Shaped By the Race for Renewable Energy
China-Africa relations have deepened over the past two decades, characterised by increased economic cooperation, investment and infrastructure development. China is now Africa's… Read more »
East Africa: Mpox Could Spread Into Conflict Zones in East Africa - How to Manage the Response
Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda are some of the east African countries that have reported cases of mpox - a viral infectious disease - in the latest outbreak which started in the… Read more »
Africa: Belief in Alien Visits to Earth Is Spiralling Out of Control - Here's Why That's So Dangerous
The idea that aliens may have visited the Earth is becoming increasingly popular. Around a fifth of UK citizens believe Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials, and an… Read more »
Africa: African Nations Can Do More to Benefit From Ties With China, the World's Second-Strongest Economy
China's relationship with Africa is vital to Beijing's efforts to expand its influence in the western-dominated world order. China is Africa's most significant trading partner and… Read more »
Africa: China-Africa Relations - New Priorities Have Driven Major Shifts Over the Last 24 Years - 5 Essential Reads
China-Africa cooperation has evolved over the past 24 years. Read more »
Africa: China Reaps Most of the Benefits of Its Relationship With Africa - What's Behind the Imbalance
The ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing takes place under the theme of "Joining hands to advance modernisation and build a high-level China-Africa community with a… Read more »
September 01
Africa: We Found Teenage Girls Don't Know Vulvas From Vaginas or When Their Menstrual Cycle Starts
It is important for everyone - but especially girls, women and people who menstruate - to understand how ovulation and menstruation work. Read more »
Africa: Aluminium Foil That Can Clean Water - We've Developed a Coating Which Attracts and Traps Dangerous Microbes
More than 2 billion people around the world do not have access to safe, uncontaminated drinking water. Around 418 million of them live in African countries. Read more »
August 30
Africa: Climate Change Has Deep Historical Roots - Amitav Ghosh Explores How Capitalism and Colonialism Fit in
Amitav Ghosh is an internationally celebrated author of 20 historical fiction and non-fiction books. The Indian thinker and writer has written extensively on the legacies of… Read more »
Africa: Why Children Are At Such High Risk for Mpox
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that children, pregnant women and people with weak immune systems are at higher risk from the mpox outbreak in the Democratic… Read more »
Sudan: Sudan Is the World's Worst Modern War - What Has Happened and What It'll Take to Rebuild
Sudan's war has been raging since April 2023. The country was on a bumpy road to democracy after mass uprisings in 2019 ousted long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir. This all came to a… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Fighting With Rebels in the Country's East Has Intensified, Sparking Fears of a Wider War
Security forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been battling the M23 rebel group in the east of the country since 2012. However, there has been a major upsurge… Read more »
August 29
Africa: Is 'Africa' a Racial Slur and Should the Continent Be Renamed?
Should African people be called black - or is the categorising of people by skin colour a racist practice? How about Africa? Is the name of the continent a racial slur because it… Read more »