APRI is recommending a regionalized solar strategy in Africa to support the development of a competitive PV industry on the continent. The institute’s new policy paper, “Solar photovoltaic ...

Although African countries would seem to be of one mind in regard to the perceived “historical injustice” believed to have been meted out to the continent by the dominant powers in the ...

STUDENTS of the history of cartography in general, and of African cartography in particular, are deeply indebted to Prince Youssouf Kamal for the inception and production of his lavishly designed ...

He added that sub-Saharan Africa could view this as an opportunity to leapfrog, through the creation of smart factories, to get to the developed world's manufacturing value-add trajectory.

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August ...

November 1, 2024 • The Sudanese city of Omdurman lives in the shadow of war, facing daily shelling and battered medical services. But some people are trying to eke out a return to life, however ...

South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...

After falling steadily for decades, the prevalence of global hunger is now on the rise—nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, where conflicts, economic fallout from the covid-19 pandemic ...

Africa has long relied on other parts of the world for its vaccine supply. This unfair global health system creates barriers to access and exposes the continent to threats like the COVID-19 ...

AI is being marshalled in multiple fields on the African continent, which contains some of the poorest countries in the world: in Zambia, to help improve medical diagnostics; in Kenya, to enable ...

An index measuring South African factory sentiment stabilized in October, signaling a rebound in manufacturing, the third-largest economic sector. Absa Group Ltd.’s purchasing managers’ index ...