Africa: 8 Billion People - How Evolution Made It Happen

November 15 2022 marks a milestone for our species, as the global population hits 8 billion. Just 70 years ago, within a human lifetime, there were only 2.5 billion of us. In AD1,… Read more »

Africa: Scientists Uncovered the Structure of the Key Protein for a Future Hepatitis C Vaccine - Here's How They Did It

The hepatitis C virus, or HCV, causes a chronic liver infection that can lead to permanent liver scarring and, in dire cases, cancer. It affects around 71 million people worldwide… Read more »

Africa: Intellectual Property Waiver for Covid Vaccines Should Be Expanded to Include Treatments and Tests

Global inequities in access to COVID vaccines have turned out to be a "catastrophic moral failure", just as the World Health Organization warned they would in January 2021. Yet it… Read more »

Africa: COP27's 'Loss and Damage' Fund for Developing Countries Could Be a Breakthrough - or Another Empty Climate Promise #AfricaClimateCrisis

Developing nations were justifiably jubilant at the close of COP27 as negotiators from wealthy countries around the world agreed for the first time to establish a dedicated "loss… Read more »

Africa: Monkeypox - Latest Data Reveals How the Virus Has Affected Women and Non-Binary People

Since May 2022, a global outbreak of human monkeypox infections has been reported in over 78,000 people. So far, infections have overwhelmingly occurred in sexually active men who… Read more »

Africa: Tested Positive to Covid? Go Easy On Yourself - Try Not to Rush Back to Work or Exercise

With COVID isolation rules largely gone, some people feel pressured to rush back to work, school, or other activities after testing positive to COVID. Read more »

Africa: What the World Would Lose With the Demise of Twitter

What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher who tracks the spread of forest… Read more »

Africa: Less Burping, More Meat and Milk - How Livestock Farmers Can Help Tackle the Climate Crisis #AfricaClimateHope

Africa's livestock farmers are at the forefront of climate change. Images of parched landscapes littered with the carcasses of starved cattle are becoming all too familiar as… Read more »

Africa: Can an African Team Win the World Cup?

Many football lovers hope an African team will finally win the men's 2022 Fifa World Cup. The world has been waiting for this since the great Brazilian player Pelé predicted… Read more »

Africa: African Mountains Are Feeling the Heat of Climate Change

Mountains are special places. They have distinctive climates that are generally cooler and wetter than surrounding lowlands, and they host plants, animals and landscapes that are… Read more »

Africa: Renewable Energy Will Need More Investment, or Africa Will Stay Dependent On Fossil Fuels

Renewable energy technologies such as solar photovoltaics and onshore wind power can help sub-Saharan Africa meet its energy requirements from sources that have lower emissions… Read more »

Africa: Africa Has Vast Gas Reserves - Here's How to Stop Them Adding to Climate Change

The question of whether Africa should be allowed to exploit its gas reserves, estimated at more than 17.56 trillion cubic meters (620 trillion cubic feet) in 2021, has been much… Read more »

Africa: Global Climate Finance Leaves Out Cities - Fixing It Is Critical to Battling Climate Change

Under the Paris Agreement, which came into force in 2016, countries agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and work together to adapt to the effects of climate change. To… Read more »

Africa: Why It's Important to Understand the Unique Plight of Internally Displaced People in Africa

The African Union adopted an agreement more than 13 years ago to prevent the arbitrary displacement of people and to uphold the dignity of such victims. Read more »

Africa: Woman King Is Set in Benin but Filmed in South Africa - in the Process It Erases Real People's Struggles

The latest film by director Gina Prince-Bythewood, The Woman King, is about a legendary all-woman African army in the 1800s, the Amazons of Dahomey. It takes place in what is today… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Midterm Elections Deserve Africa's Attention - but Not for Reasons of Foreign Policy

Africans normally pay little attention to American elections when the presidency is not at stake. But the midterm polls - such as the 8 November 2022 one - deserve Africa's… Read more »

Africa: Senegal and Cameroon Carry Continent's Best Hopes at World Cup 2022

The men's Fifa World Cup kicks off on 20 November in Qatar. Africa is allocated five spots in the month-long final stage of this elite competition, held every four years. Cameroon,… Read more »

Africa: As the 8 Billionth Person Is Born, Here's How Africa Will Shape the Future of the Planet's Population

In mid-November 2022 the eight billionth person will be born, according to the United Nations. In its analysis of this milestone, the UN makes two key observations. The first is… Read more »

Africa: 'Gain of Function' Research Can Create Experimental Viruses. It Should Be More Strictly Regulated - or Banned

The United Nations Environment Programme recently published a scientific review that looks at environmental threats and risks in light of the COVID pandemic. It analyses links… Read more »

Africa: How the Energy Crisis Is Pressuring Countries' Climate Plans

Russia's war on Ukraine has cast a shadow over this week's meetings of world leaders at the G-20 summit in Bali and the United Nations climate change conference in Egypt. Read more »

Africa: 'Black Panther - Wakanda Forever' Continues the Series' Quest to Recover and Celebrate Lost Cultures

As someone who teaches and writes about Afrofuturism, I've been eagerly awaiting the release of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." I'm particularly excited about the introduction of… Read more »

Africa: How the Philosophy Behind the Japanese Art Form of Kintsugi Can Help Us Navigate Failure

In our 20s and 30s, there can be immense pressure to measure up to the expectations of society, our families, our friends and even those we have for ourselves. Many people look… Read more »

Africa: Worker Organisations Can Survive the Digital Age. Here's How

There is a widespread view that labour has become irrelevant as a force for change. The argument goes that the proliferation of digital labour platforms - and the rise in job… Read more »

Africa: How the Energy Crisis Is Pressuring Countries At the UN Climate Summit - While Some Race to Renewables, Others See Natural Gas Wealth, but It May Be Short-Lived #AfricaClimateCrisis

Russia's war on Ukraine has cast a shadow over this year's United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where officials from around the world are discussing the costs… Read more »

Africa: Climate Change and Wildlife - 3 Studies That Reveal the Devastating Toll On Africa's Animals

Climate change has produced a number of threats to wildlife. Over time, changing rainfall patterns have transformed habitats and forced animals to move. Increasing temperatures are… Read more »