July 05, 2019
Ethiopia: What's Behind Addis Ababa's Plan to Ban Motorcycles
The government will ban the use of all motorcycles in the capital of Addis Ababa as of July 7, 2019. Read more »
March 26, 2019
Africa: Millions Fear Losing Their Homes Across Africa – Survey
Tens of millions of urban dwellers in Sub-Saharan Africa live in fear of losing their homes against their will, a new study says. Read more »
February 20, 2019
Africa: Finding Solutions for Sanitation Problems in Africa
Access to proper sanitation and hygiene continues to prove a challenge to African countries. Following the success of previous conferences, the African Ministers' Council on… Read more »
November 23, 2018
Africa: 'Voluntary Colonialism'? No Thanks.
As if the scramble for Africa wasn't bad enough, Germany's personal representative of Angela Merkel for Africa, Günther Nooke, says Europe deserves a second chance to screw… Read more »
June 29, 2018
South Africa: Grahamstown to be Renamed After Xhosa Warrior
Minister of Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa has published a government gazette stating that Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape will be renamed Makhanda. Read more »
April 23, 2018
Kenya: Brave Cop Directs Traffic 'Knee-Deep' in Floodwater
Pictures of a policeman standing on the edge of a submerged bridge helping traffic to flow again at Sultan Hamud have sparked a fountain of praise. Read more »
August 31, 2017
Niger: Hundreds of Homes Destroyed in Flooding
After last week's catastrophes in Maradi and Zinder, which left seven people dead and more than a thousand affected, torrential rains in the capital Niamey on Saturday destroyed… Read more »
June 07, 2017
South Africa: Reports of Deaths as #CapeTownStorm Intensifies
The storm in Cape Town has claimed the lives of five people, including a 60-year-old man. Read more »
September 23, 2016
Mozambique: Quake Shakes Central Province
An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale was recorded late on Thursday, September 22, in the southern province of Manica, in central Mozambique, according to Verdade.co.mz. Read more »
April 28, 2016
Liberia: Impoverished Hard-Hit Area Points to Ebola Recovery
You can't walk too far along West Point's main thoroughfare before realizing that life in the slum community is much like it was before the Ebola epidemic made it a battle ground… Read more »
September 27, 2014
Tanzania: Local Books Open Worlds for City Kids
Before leaving Tanzania - where she worked on an education project - Jennifer Brookland, a senior writer and editor for Creative Associates International, visited a bookshop in the… Read more »
December 30, 2014
Namibia: Windhoek - Small City, Big Food Problem
To the casual visitor, Namibia's main city of Windhoek – one of Africa's smallest capitals – seems free of the huge challenges facing the major cities of most African… Read more »
December 29, 2014
Uganda: Science and Empathy Drive Inventiveness in Kampala
A storied university in Uganda's capital city still delivers achievements, despite years of decline in Africa's institutions of higher learning. A technology-for-development… Read more »
December 23, 2014
Liberia: Eco-Lighting Helps Battered Monrovia See Beyond Ebola
In a shop near the heart of the densely packed West Point neighborhood in Liberia's capital that was quarantined in August to slow the spread of Ebola, retiree Abubakar K. Sherif… Read more »
December 18, 2014
Nigeria: Preventing Urban Epidemics Through Community Buy-In
Okechukwu Ndaguba sits at a table in a noisy conference room at the Jades Hotel in Nigeria's capital city, summoning strength for the last day of a planning session about a new… Read more »
December 16, 2014
Senegal: Bridging a City's Gender/Digital Divide
In Senegal's booming, bustling capital, the country's first technology network for women aims to alter the landscape for technology developers. Read more »
December 15, 2014
Ethiopia: Lakeside City Surmounts Africa's Tourism Crisis
The evening calm is broken by a roll of drums at a social joint near the Rahnile Hotel. Crowds stream through the streets to answer the call of the rhythm, pulled by the promise of… Read more »
December 05, 2014
Sierra Leone: Mobile Tech Fights Freetown Health Shocks
"The phone rang and I heard Isatu's cheery voice," said Moiyattu Banya, who co-founded the Girls Empowerment Summit Sierra Leone two years ago. "She was flashing me." Read more »
December 01, 2014
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 »
October 16, 2014
Kenya: Konza – City of Dreams
What if there were a city where big ideas become real, where traffic jams are obsolete, where women and men develop futuristic technologies together, where natural and urban… Read more »
Kenya: Silicon Savannah Reimagines Cities
He has struggled to find jobs since he finished high school a decade ago – but if Alex Muoki has bet right this time, he may turn out to be a winner. Read more »
October 13, 2014
Africa: At Age 100, Rockefeller Targets Young, Growing Cities - Mamadou Biteye
An agriculture economist by training, Mamadou Biteye has worked in many parts of Africa for organizations as diverse as the African Development Foundation, Oxfam and the World… Read more »
Africa: Flying Toilets & Futuristic Technopolis – Challenges & Solutions for Cities
Little more than three decades from now, as many as three-fourths of the world's people will live in cities. More than half already do – crowding neighborhoods, straining… Read more »
September 17, 2014
Rwanda: Kigali - a Different Kind of City
The Chinese pair trailing me at the check-in line at Kigali airport looked happy to have landed in east Africa. A string of comments expressing restrained delight followed me all… Read more »
May 22, 2014
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 »
