We have now moved beyond the Shock Doctrine. The empire is not executing a crisis. It is being executed by...
The IMF recently published the conditions attached to a newly agreed programme with Zambia. The IMF wants Zambia to reduce...
On 28 October, University of Cape Town management signed an agreement with NEHAWU (the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union) which commits the university to...
The readiness of the African Union’s (AU’s) African Standby Force (ASF) was put to the test during a major field exercise over three weeks in October...
Akon will speak at the RE-Energizing the Future conference in Paris on leveraging renewable resources for development, sharing visions for a future powered by renewable energy....
Meet the duo of South African childhood friends who founded a social enterprise that uses plastic bags to make reflective school bags that turn into lights...
In a bid to fight FGM, three universities in Tanzania will begin offering courses on the practice, which'll make Tanzania the second country in Africa to...
The 5th of December marks the anniversary of the death of a global icon, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, South Africa’s first black, and democratically elected president who...
El Niño has hit Africa particularly hard this year. The unpredictable weather cycle has been more intense than past iterations, and is being blamed for everything,...
Sub-Saharan Africa’s wind potential could produce several times the current level of total African electricity consumption. Some countries have already taken it upon themselves to harness...
The AU has introduced a plan to mobilise $20 billion to develop at least 10 gigawatts of renewable energy on the continent within a decade. The...
Makerere University researcher Dr. Misaki Wayengera’s story attracted interest when it emerged that the Ugandan government had not supported his ground-breaking invention, an Ebola rapid detector...
