The train arrives in Aswan after around 12 hours. Travellers then continue via bus or ferry into Sudan. Little is known about what happens when travel...

Cities need new ways to adapt to climate change. The current system of social, economic and political structures that cities are based on is built on...

Visitors flock to the celebration from Europe, America, Tanzania, Somalia, the Saudi Arabian Peninsula, and numerous towns, villages, and islands alon...

Over the past 15 years, Angolans have grown accustomed to delays and postponements of what was once hailed as a building block for a more democratic c...

The study points to the need to pay more attention to boys during the literacy sessions and to girls in the numeracy sessions during the implementatio...

Cancer is an emotionally charged and high-stakes diagnosis. Loss-framed misinformation spreads quickly and can influence decisions that can put people...

For African countries, where young people make up the majority of the population but often feel shut out of politics, the question is especially press...

The black wattle is an invasive Australian tree that arrived in South Africa in 1871. It was originally introduced in plantations to create shade and...

There were three distinct dispersal corridors: among equatorial Indian Ocean islands (hawksbills); along east Africa (green turtles); and around south...

Gender parity matters because women make up more than half of the world’s population, and excluding them from full participation has economic and soci...

Microaggressions can be projected to Black people because they are expected to speak perfect English when it’s not even their language. Or because wha...

According to the World Meteorological Organisation, temperatures in Africa are increasing faster than the global average. Recent estimates suggest tha...

In reality, we’re living through the fastest energy transformation in human history. Every previous large-scale shift in energy – from muscle power to...

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1997, Oyinbokure studied computer science at the Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta. He received a master’s degr...

Both elephants and rare ebony lie at the heart of the national heritage of Cameroon. By safeguarding elephants, Cameroon can protect the long-term via...

Higher electricity output from the dam could expand rural internet access in Ethiopia and, if Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt cooperate, also aid flood con...

The lifting of the moratorium on new banks and raising capital requirements could be the start of more changes in the Kenyan banking sector.

KCB Group – a publicly owned bank that is also the country’s largest – as well as privately owned Equity Bank, have established foreign subsidiaries o...

President Tshisekedi must tread carefully, as Kabila’s remaining loyalists, though fewer in number, could grow bolder in challenging his leadership.

Ethiopia’s success offers a practical and scalable model for countries seeking to strengthen emergency medical preparedness.

DNA sequencing has revolutionised cancer care. Doctors can use it to improve prevention in people who are at risk of cancer, detect cancer early, and...

The study offers rare insight into the genetic ancestry of early Egyptians and reveals links to both ancient north Africa and Mesopotamia, which inclu...

Mónica’s trial is a stark reminder that the branding of Indigenous practices as “magic” or “superstition” was a tool used to assert dominance and eras...

There’s also stigma. Older adults grew up during a time when HIV was associated with silence and shame. Many feel deep embarrassment or fear about get...

Risk factors for developing breast cancer include being female, increasing age, being overweight, alcohol consumption and genetic factors.

The conflict in eastern DRC has escalated, displacing over 7.8 million people and leaving 28 million more facing food insecurity, nearly four million...

Cultural factors can also reduce uptake. Misconceptions about infertility, fear of health risks, and social expectations about childbearing can discou...

RFK Jr’s department has dismissed and replaced the 17 expert members of the Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices with eight new people, a numb...

Encouragingly, many African constitutions, including those of Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, now call for public participation in making la...

Should the worst happen, their populations will lose their homes and sources of income. They will also lose their way of life, identity, culture, heri...

The April 2022 floods in eThekwini municipality, South Africa, claimed 544 lives, displaced more than 40,000 people, and damaged or destroyed over 4,0...

Whether or not charges specifically relating to the attacks on Nasser Hospital are ever brought, it’s an opportunity to examine how international law...

From the first days of the occupation in 1967, Israel has tried to keep a tight grip on media reporting, building a legal and military architecture th...

Civilians never deserve to be harmed through carelessness, inadvertence or deliberate targeting

The Committee to Protect Journalists, which has tracked journalist deaths globally since 1992, has counted a staggering 189 Palestinian journalists ki...

A blue economy needs to be based on a sustainable balance between often competing ecological and economic goals.

If Biya wins, by the end of the new term in 2032, he will have been in power for half a century. It will be a feat no other executive head of state ha...

The Christian Council of Kenya’s involvement reveals the variety of ways that NGOs became involved, and sometimes implicated, in policies of colonial...

Works first written and published in African languages are increasingly being translated into English for a broader readership.

Islamic State’s Central African Province may appear to be resurging after its latest civilian attacks, but the violence more likely reflects a rebound...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-r...

If housing is a residential public good and transport is a networked one, sanitation sits in between. It’s delivered to individual homes, but is relia...

Dark data also accelerates e-waste from hardware replacement and depletes resources through manufacturing, such as using recycled raw materials and wa...

Ethiopia imposed a temporary ban on labour migration to the Gulf countries from late 2013 to early 2018 over reported abuses and deaths.

The lessons raised were connected to the housemaids’ immediate life experiences, and many of the films mentioned seemed to explore the social impacts...

It is not only technology, though, that causes unemployment. A relatively unique feature of market economies is their ability to produce mass want, th...

National policymakers must treat urbanisation not just as a city issue, but as a national priority.

The stakes could not be higher. The choices made now will determine whether we face a future of worsening impacts and irreversible change or one of ma...

Wells also catalogued how news outlets told those stories. They minced words to protect the perpetrators, while smearing the reputations of the dead,...