Africa: No Time to Talk - What Big Business Can Learn From Social Enterprise

Rhetoric is used in all areas of life and none so more than in business -- especially when it comes to companies outlining their sustainability efforts Read more »

Africa: Swapping Grape Varieties Could Keep Wine Flowing As Climate Warms

Global warming of 4C would threaten up to 85% of the world's wine-growing regions, according to a new study Read more »

Angola: Behind High-Rise Buildings and Skyscrapers Hides Poverty and Inequality

Will skyscrapers one day represent the prosperity that every Angolan citizen has dreamed about? Perhaps. Read more »

Uganda: Out of Court - Ugandans Turn to 'Barefoot Lawyers' to Settle Land Disputes

The legal group was founded by Ugandan law students as a Facebook page and now reaches 350,000 people a month through social media and public meetings Read more »

Southern Africa: Whatever the Weather - Southern Africa Tries New Hunger Fixes

The WFP says a "silent catastrophe" is playing out in southern Africa where a record 45 million people face growing levels of hunger Read more »

Africa: Banana Ban and Meatless Menus, but How Green Is Davos Summit?

For the fourth year, WEF officials said the four-day meeting would be climate-neutral through various initiatives such as offsetting 100% of emissions, including air travel Read more »

Africa: World Risks 'Disaster' As Reuse of Natural Resources Declines

New report shows the world is using up more raw materials, while recycling less and urges greater efforts towards a circular economy Read more »

Africa: 'Let Us In!' Women Entrepreneurs Implore Investors At UK Business Event

Female entrepreneurs from African countries say they need to benefit from the same opportunities as men for their continent's ambitious development goals to be realised Read more »

Libya: Trafficking Risk High for Hundreds of Migrants Sent Back Home

Aid workers say they have first-hand testimony of migrants being sold to traffickers after being taken to Libyan detention centres Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Police Pledge Trafficking Crackdown As 137 Child Victims Are Rescued

The victims ranged in age from six to 17 and came from the nearby West African countries of Nigeria, Benin, Ghana and Togo Read more »

Africa: Scrap Fishing Subsidies to Help Save the Ocean and Climate

This year is a watershed for tackling the climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis, and reforming fisheries subsidies would be a significant step forward on both Read more »

Africa: Women Step Forward in Push to Nurture Climate Scientists

A new programme is training African scientists to be leaders in their field, with a focus on meeting the needs of women farmers in adapting to a warming climate Read more »

Kenya: African LGBT+ Refugees Plead UN for Safe Shelter After Kenya Camp Attacks

Dozens of African LGBT+ refugees in northwestern Kenya's sprawling Kakuma refugee camp pleaded on Thursday with the United Nations to relocate them to a safer place, saying they… Read more »

Kenya: Traditional Crops Puff Hopes for Climate Resilience in Kenya

Can growing more climate-hardly crops - and finding ways to process them into popular products - help communities weather global warming? Read more »

Niger: Niger Urged to Work With Traffickers to Curb Violence

'Given the rapid deterioration of security across the Sahel region, the need to prevent violent conflict...outweighs the need to curb criminality' Read more »

Africa: Factbox - From Solar Cars to Fake Pork - Best New Tech for Good

From clever farming to solar-powered taps, there's a host of futuristic ideas highlighted at this year's global tech show in Las Vegas Read more »

Egypt: Making Fun of Men or Emboldening Sex Pests? Egyptian Song Spurs Debate

A video for the controversial song has been viewed more than 7.5 million times on YouTube since its release on Jan. 1 Read more »

Africa: London, New York Mayors Urge Cities to Divest From Fossil Fuels

New guide shows how cities from Berlin to Melbourne are pulling their investments out of fossil fuel companies Read more »

Africa: Digging Up the Dirt - Could Soil Contain the Answer to Food Shortages?

From Iowa to the Ayeyarwady delta region of Myanmar - known as the country's rice bowl - farmers are trying to figure out how to make their soil healthier and more productive Read more »

Kenya: Water Harvesting Has Added Benefit for Kenya - Less Flooding

Efforts to trap and store more water to battle worsening climate change-related drought are helping cut flood risk too, experts say Read more »

Zimbabwe: Parched Bulawayo Rations to Save Dwindling Water

Families in the southern Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo are going up to four days without running water as drought dries the dams the city depends on, city council officials said. Read more »

Africa: Facebook Removes Misleading HIV Drug Ads After Outcry

HIV prevention medication has been deemed "highly effective" by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the leading national public health institute in the United States Read more »

Africa: From Medicine to Recycling, 6 Start-Ups Doing Business for Good in 2019

As Africa tunes into business for good, young people are finding innovative solutions to problems from illiteracy to pollution Read more »

Africa: From Parades to Punishments - 10 Headline LGBTI+ Stories in 2019

2019 brought change for many LGBT+ people, with some states launching crackdowns while others increased rights and freedoms Read more »

South Africa: The Myth of Day Zero - What We Got Wrong With Water

Here's to 2020 being a turning point once and for all on water management Read more »