June 24
Africa: Three Million Years After Lucy Walked Upright in Africa, the Inside Story of Another Landmark Journey
There is a special gallery inside the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi where visitors slow down, lower their voices and often fall silent. In front of them, carefully lit and… Read more »
June 25
Africa: The International Legal Order Is Broken - 2 Key Shifts Needed to Fix It
The international legal order that was created after the second world war is no longer fit for purpose. Its response to urgent global problems like climate, poverty and pandemics… Read more »
June 24
Africa: What Helps Women Eat Well? Control Over Money, Time and Decisions Matters
Worldwide, women carry the greatest burden of malnutrition. More than two-thirds of women of childbearing age don't get enough of at least one micronutrient. These are the vitamins… Read more »
Africa: Female Baboons Keep Family Bonds Strong - Research Reveals the Benefits
Baboons are one of the most widespread of Africa's primate groups. They range across sub-Saharan Africa and into the Arabian Peninsula. Read more »
June 19
Africa: Does Climate Change Lead to More Migration? Here's Why Researchers Can't Agree On the Evidence
Images of families displaced by floods, prolonged droughts or extreme storms have become a distressingly regular feature of the daily news. As the impact of climate change… Read more »
June 23
Africa: Fossil Fuels Still Dominate in Africa's Electricity Future - Study Tracks 3,139 Power Plants
Only about 57% of the people in Africa have access to electricity, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa. To meet the United Nations goal of everyone having access to… Read more »
June 22
Africa: We Are Mapping and Monitoring Africa's Underground Water Supplies in Preparation for a Hotter Future - Scientists
As global temperatures rise, surface waters - including rivers, lakes and reservoirs - are becoming dangerously erratic. This is because in a hotter climate, there are rapid swings… Read more »
Africa: Oxygen Atoms in 15-Million-Year-Old Giant Eggshells Reveal How Plants Reacted to a Hotter Earth - Study
Some periods in Earth history are so different from our own that they may as well belong to another planet. Many people are interested in the age of dinosaurs, or the Ice Ages, but… Read more »
June 16
Africa: Asteroid or Comet? Meteor or Meteorite? How to Identify and Classify the Rocks You See Streaking Through the Sky
Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky? Read more »
June 21
Africa: Can Africa Survive the Global Aid Squeeze? Yes, but It Will Take Financial Discipline
Africa faces declining aid, rising debt, climate pressure and a weakening global order. Official development assistance, the technical term for foreign aid, fell by 23.1% in 2025,… Read more »
June 17
Africa: How Enslaved African Muslims Resisted Bondage Through Their Faith and Writing
Muslims in the United States often face negative stereotyping and suspicion. Especially in the years following 9/11, Muslims have been frequently cast as outsiders. Read more »
June 18
Africa: People Are Marrying Holograms and Making Friends With Chatbots. but Can AiIBring True Happiness?
Can technology really replace human relationships? As philosophy scholars who focus on human happiness and on artificial intelligence (AI), we tackle this question in a recent… Read more »
Africa: South African Scientists Make Breakthrough in Decoding Cancer's Most Effective Survival Strategy
In the intricate biology of the human body, organs such as the breast, the colon and the lungs are lined with a defensive barrier known as the epithelium. At the heart of this… Read more »
June 17
Africa: Money, Food and Survival - What Drives Paid Sex Among Young Mums in 3 African Countries
Transactional sex, defined as the exchange of sex for money, food, or favours, is common among young people in Africa. Studies have reported that about 10% of those aged 15-24 have… Read more »
June 16
Africa: Western Troops Have Been Expelled From Africa's Sahel - So Why Are Italy's Carabinieri Still There?
Western forces have largely beat a hasty retreat from Africa's coup-prone Sahel region in recent years. Read more »
June 15
Africa: Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim Crafted a Magnificent New Culture for South Africa
Adolph Johannes Brand was born on 9 October 1934 in Cape Town. He would become better known as Dollar Brand and then Abdullah Ibrahim, an artist of mixed ethnic descent who… Read more »
Africa: South Africa Is Short of 2.6 Million Homes - Vienna's Approach to Social Housing Offers Useful Lessons
South Africa faces a housing backlog of at least 2.6 million units, for more than 12 million people. The state supply of new, subsidised housing has declined over the past decade… Read more »
Africa: Conflict Hits Schooling Hardest Where Children Are the Target - Study
According to Unesco, around 250 million children (16%) globally are out of school although they are of an age to be at school in their countries. Available evidence suggests that… Read more »
June 14
Africa: Ebola, Hantavirus, Diphtheria - How Distrust in Health Care Is Fuelling Multiple Outbreaks Across the Globe
The first half of 2026 has been marked by three different disease outbreaks: Ebola, hantavirus and, in Australia, diphtheria. Each has exposed vulnerabilities in how we detect,… Read more »
Africa: The Giant Viruses That Orchestrate Life in the Polar Regions
Viruses play a major role in the functioning of ecosystems. They profoundly influence the dynamics of microbial communities, flow of matter and global biogeochemical cycles. Yet… Read more »
June 12
Africa: Fungal Highways Are Vast, Yet Hidden Underground - New Study
Beneath our feet lie some of the largest living organisms on Earth. Fungi are mostly invisible and largely overlooked, but they help sustain the ecosystems and food systems that we… Read more »
June 11
Africa: Sharks, Seals, Hunters, Tourists - How Wildlife-Human Interactions Matter for Conservation
Our relationships with wildlife are dynamic. They can change rapidly and unexpectedly. Read more »
Africa: Appolonia - the Story of an African Kingdom That Resisted the Atlantic Slave Trade
The transatlantic slave trade was a multilayered, highly commercialised global enterprise that lasted from the early 1500s to the mid 1800s. Read more »
June 10
Africa: World Cup 2026 - the Real Story of the Resilient African Migrants Reshaping Global Football
Global football body Fifa is branding the World Cup 2026 - and global football in general - as a celebration of inclusivity and diversity. It's presented as a harbinger of peace… Read more »
Africa: AI Regulation in Africa - Why Copying the European Model Won't Work
Mauritius set out its national AI strategy in 2018, the first by an African country. Since then over a dozen African states have adopted national AI policies of some sort or… Read more »
