Africa’s land policies are pivotal for addressing urbanization, climate change, and gender inequality, with digital tools and decentralized reforms driving equitable growth and resilience. Success ...

The East African country Eritrea has been named a ‘mini Italy’, and with their close links within history, it’s no surprise. In 1890, Eritrea became an Italian colony and was the main base for the ...

Over 1 billion people are impacted by neglected tropical diseases. Devex explores what WHO’s updated road map means and ...

I’M OFTEN ASKED WHY AFRICA MATTERS. It’s an understandable question in a world of real responsibilities, real demands, and ...

The switch to the marathon is something we have been planning carefully for a number of years. So it’s not connected to my ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out ...

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

UNICEF is mainstreaming climate-smart programming to protect and empower young people, mitigate negative impacts and ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart , acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.