As fireworks were lighting up the skies to usher in the New Year across the world, gunfire was echoing out in Nigeria’s Benue State. On this night alone, 73 people were killed…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the Obama White House three years ago was ecstatic. By contrast, his visit this week to the Trump White House will be awkward. This time…
Walter Focke, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Director of Institute of Applied Materials, University of Pretoria; Mthokozisi Sibanda, Postdoctoral fellow in Chemical Engineering, University of Pretoria, and Taneshka Kruger, Senior Project…
In the past 15 years the Kenyan government has made great strides in preventing and controlling malaria. It has issued insecticide treated bed nets, sprayed people’s homes with insecticides and ensured…
At least 110 million of the 600 million people still living without access to electricity in Africa live in urban areas. Most are within a stone throw from existing power grid infrastructure.…
Sierra Leone recently held peaceful presidential elections. But you would not know it from the media, which suggested that the country was frequently overwhelmed by violence during this period. The first round…
Since the 1994 genocide against Tutsi, Rwanda has made considerable progress towards gender equality, now ranking fifth in the world on the Global Gender Gap Index. It pursued sociopolitical reforms that favour…
OUALLAM, Niger (Reuters) Kicking up clouds of pink Saharan dust, U.S. military trainers impersonated militants, waved flags saying “death to outsiders” and threw smoke grenades toward approaching Nigerien commandos this week, as…
South Africa has been granted a licence to manufacture one of the world’s most important vaccines. It’s the first time the country will be able to do so since the mid 1990s,…
This article is published in collaboration with the international Violence and Exiting Violence Platform (FMSH). War zones and conflict sites are incredibly dangerous for anyone living in them, but women are often…
