Discarded industrial fishing gear accounts for about 10% of the more 12 million tons of plastic waste that ends up in the world's oceans every year, according to WWF.Read more »
After experiencing first-hand how difficult it can be to get high-quality, safe, and budget-friendly baby products in Nigeria, Toyin Bajomo did what all moms do - she solved the ... Read more »
Marsh, the conglomerate's insurance broker bid for and won the contract to find insurers for the east African crude oil pipeline, a huge and environmentally ruinous project ... Read more »
Shopping for food in Nigeria's largest cities can be a challenge. After battling the notorious traffic of Lagos or Abuja to reach open-air markets, many shoppers are frustrated to ... Read more »
Agripreneur Mira Mehta and her team at Tomato Jos have worked hard to produced a Nigeria-made tomato paste from locally grown tomatoes. Mehta says Prosper Africa has been ... Read more »
The South Africa-based energy and chemical giant says it no longer plans to invest in a planned gas pipeline from Mozambique to South Africa to avoid being locked-in to costly ... Read more »
Malawian authorities should cease harassing journalist Gregory Gondwe, drop any attempt to force him to disclose his sources, and reform the country's laws so they are not used to ... Read more »
The African Development Fund, the concessional financing window of the African Development Bank Group, is turning 50! Five decades after its establishment, the African Development ... Read more »
For thousands of years, the oil palm - indigenous to West Africa - has had an intimate relationship with people. An explosive expansion of oil palm groves throughout western and ... Read more »
The U.S.$301 million development at the River Club site in Observatory, Cape Town has been stopped, with a court ruling that the developers must "consult meaningfully" with a Read more »
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