In an @allafrica interview as he ends of his tenure as the top Africa policymaker in the State Department, Assistant Secretary Tibor Nagy says the legacy of the outgoing ... Read more »
Six years ago, Zambian villagers brought a legal claim against UK mining firms, Vendanta Resources Limited and Kokola Copper Mines. The claim focused on the toxic discharge from ... Read more »
Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africa's powerful MeerKAT telescope, located in the Karoo region, a semi-arid area in the south-west of the country. Radio ... Read more »
The amount of carbon dioxide that we can still emit while limiting global warming to a given target, is called the "remaining carbon budget," and it has become a powerful tool to ... Read more »
Musu Bakoto Sawo, a Gambian changemaker, women rights advocate and human rights lawyer, has been named the 'African of the Year' by Nigeria's Daily Trust. Former Botswana President ... Read more »
The initial idea for the Great Green Wall, launched in 2007, was to plant an 8,000-km band of trees spanning 11 key nations from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east. Its ... Read more »
According to a study, African technology hubs are challenging the dominance of traditional universities as sources of knowledge production, and are becoming better su Read more »
The coronavirus pandemic has transformed the travel landscape, potentially for decades to come. The Henley Passport Index known for measuring countries globally that are Read more »
A criminal court in Geneva has begun hearing charges of corruption and document forgery against the French-Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz over the securing of lucrative mining ... Read more »
Global scientists are intensifying research into Covid-19, as the World Health Organization moves to expand its scientific collaboration and monitoring of emerging variants of ... Read more »
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