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RURAL economies in Africa have become zones of economic misery. According to Dr Akinwumi Adesina...
A greater short-nosed fruit bat photographed in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
SCIENTISTS from China and Singapore recently reported the discovery of an Ebola-like virus in...
A farmer shows an example of forest coffee production in coffee nursery in Ethiopia.
Most of the world’s wild coffee species have a high chance of going extinct in the next several...
African Heads of State at a past AU Summit
Using the conceptual frameworks of "revolutionary rupture" and "contradictions", as analytical...
Junior Jordan Epstein (L) and sophomore Emma Fanuele work on designing a medical supply storage unit for a village in Malawi at Hingham High School recently.
A mother and daughter team and a group of high school students are working to help a poor...
Drone pilot Khadija Abdulla Ali says mapping her local area has been "so worth it"
A LACK of accurate maps is a big problem in parts of Africa: for disaster relief agencies, local...
People walk through the Ridley Road Market in Dalston, East London [Jose Sarmento Matos/Al Jazeera]
It's 6:15am on a dark, rain-soaked Saturday morning and the traders on Dalston's Ridley Road...
TOP African leaders including heads of state , ministers, CEOs as well as representatives from...
Of the developing world’s “5.5 billion people, 3 billion live in rural areas, nearly half of...
Sr. Dativa Mukebita talks with Nikodem Lucian at the Village Angels of Tanzania project in Ngara, Tanzania. Photo: Courtesy Sergio Burani
HELPING the elderly in this or that district, village or community has become a routine point of...
Private health insurance providers’ approach leaves behind most Tanzanians uninsured while finding it difficult to be accepted in state-funded healthcare facilities countrywide. Photo: File
THE growing mentality of preferring cash clients over those covered through insurance could be a...
People are rescued by a security person. Photo: Baz Ratner/Reuters
FIFTY people remained missing on Thursday as Kenyan security forces searched for suspects...