
The election of Donald Trump to become President of the U.S. and the U.K. vote to leave the European Union,…
The election of Donald Trump to become President of the U.S. and the U.K. vote to leave the European Union,…
Nearly a decade ago, Bill and Melinda Gates stunned, and in some quarters irritated, the global health community by calling for the eradication of malaria, one of the world’s biggest killers. But last week, preliminary findings from a huge project under way in a section of central Africa known as the Sahel show a bold new strategy that might just nudge malaria eradication a bit closer toward reality.
For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we talk about food and agriculture with Nathanael Johnson, a writer for the entertaining and insightful environmental news website Grist.org.
South Africa announced on Thursday it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC). It came days after Burundi’s president signed a bill to also leave the court. Years of threats to leave and attempts to organize the African Union behind a mass departure finally led two countries to take action.
Conflict and climate change are creating a burgeoning hunger crisis in west and central Africa. With funds being shifted to…
People living in the vicinity of dams in Africa will likely see a doubling of the odds they will get…
Uganda is edging closer to eliminating river blindness from the country. The government announced this week that it eliminated the…
Poverty is increasingly concentrating in Africa, according to a London-based think tank. By 2030, if current trends continue, sub-Saharan Africa…
More than a decade ago, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina penned a satirical column for the magazine Granta describing how to…
Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa fell to a 15-year low in 2015, and the downward trend is predicted to hold…