Africa: Will Africa Be Heard At Climate Science Talks?

The global scientific community is meeting at a conference in Paris this week to strengthen the consensus on the science which explains changes to the planetary climate system in… Read more »

Africa: Panel Calls for Ten-Fold Boost in Power for Africa

Africa can boost its capacity to generate power - and, as a result, economic growth and jobs - without precipitating catastrophic climate change, argues Kofi Annan. Read more »

Africa: Africa's Leaders Must Take 'Decisive Action' to Generate Clean Energy - Kofi Annan

Some African countries are already leading the world in low-carbon, climate-resilient development, says Kofi Annan, in the annual report of the Africa Progress Panel. Read more »

Africa: Degraded Ecosystems Threaten Africans' Welfare

African countries need to grow their economies to meet the needs of their people. However, this can only be done while ensuring that the productivity and viability of the… Read more »

Cameroon: Taming Waters for Health, Jobs in Yaounde

More than half the world's eight billion people will be living in cities within five years, demographers predict – and Africa is at the forefront of that transition. Read more »

Botswana: Could Mining Help Conserve Okavango Delta?

Understandably, the mining industry is not perceived as a bastion of environmental preservation. That many of the world's minerals and hydrocarbons are found in pristine… Read more »

Africa: Climate-Smart Agriculture Needed to Address Undernutrition

Much has been said about the challenges that humankind faces as the climate shifts. It is time to talk about the opportunities. Read more »

Africa: Agriculture Needs to Get Smart - Climate Smart

We've heard from African leaders like Kofi Annan and Nigeria's Agriculture Minister Akin Adesina about the potential for agriculture to create jobs and transform livelihoods. A key… Read more »

Africa: Need to Create Jobs? Try Agriculture

The agriculture sector is more effective than the oil and gas sectors not only at creating jobs but boosting growth says, the Africa Progress Panel and Sipho Moyo of One during a… Read more »

Africa: 'Not a Conference, a Conversation'

Agriculture. Food security. Small-scale farmers. Agriculture research. Did your eyes glaze over? Thought so. The agriculture sector still struggles to shake the perception of being… Read more »

South Africa: Joburg Aims to Be Africa's Greenest City

Southern Africa's biggest metropolis has big plans to become one of the continent's greenest cities. Read more »

South Africa: Solving the Poor's 'Poo' Problem

Access to toilets for Cape Town's growing urban poor is a regular flash-point, featuring angry demonstrations and hurled allegations by competing political factions. Read more »

Africa: African Awakening Will Avert Future Food Crises

Thirty years on from a famine that claimed more than a million lives, Ethiopia is making great strides towards food security. And though progress across the continent is uneven,… Read more »

Africa: Mayors Seek Bigger Role In Climate Change

Some of Africa's biggest cities are joining an international drive by city governments to respond to global climate change. Read more »

Africa: U.S. Star To Tackle Electricity Problems in Africa

Senegalese-American singer Aliaune Badara Thiam, popularly known as Akon, has launched an initiative to provide electricity to one million households in Africa by the end of 2014. Read more »

Somalia: Piracy Declines Dramatically, Report Insurers

Somali piracy could be eliminated within a few years if foreign navies continue their patrols off the country's coast, reports a major insurance company. Read more »

Africa: Africans Give Govts Failing Marks On Power, Water Supplies

Although two of every three Africans believe their governments are performing well in the fight against HIV and Aids, fewer approve of their delivery of basic health services and… Read more »

Africa: Championing a Development Agenda Beyond 2015

Molly Elgin-Cossart, senior fellow at the New York University Center on International Cooperation, reflects on lessons learned from the United Nations High-Level Panel on the… Read more »

Namibia: No Survivors in Mozambique Airlines Crash

Namibian officials searching for a missing Mozambique Airlines plane have located the wreckage but found no survivors. Most of the 27 passengers were Mozambicans and Angolans… Read more »

Nigeria: Advocacy Group Tackles Oil Companies Over Spills

The Nigerian operations of two major international companies have been accused of failing to control oil spills which damage the environment and the health of Nigerians. Read more »

Africa: Feeding Africa Through Agricultural Innovation

After the agriculture heyday of 30 years ago, the sector got scant attention, especially from African presidents whose nations were well endowed with natural resources, like… Read more »

Africa: Invest in Water Storage to Secure the Future

Water and energy are fundamental to poverty reduction and economic transformation on the African continent. When experts, policymakers and high-level representatives met this week… Read more »

Malawi: Malawian President Seeks Clarity On Border Dispute From International Court

President Joyce Banda has said that Malawi will urgently take the border dispute with Tanzania to the UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ) after claiming the intervention by… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Official Flags Poaching As Security Threat

The number of elephants alive today is the smallest number ever recorded. A new surge of slaughter is, according to wildlife experts, worse than the mass killings of the 1970s and… Read more »

Africa: Elephants Under Grave Threat

Conservationists warn that unless action is taken soon, Africa's iconic herds of elephants could disappear from the landscape. Read more »