Browsing: Africa
Former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang was convicted Thursday in a financial conspiracy case that welled up from from his country’s “tuna…
Kenya launched a fertilizer subsidy in 2008 and now farmers say the soil is dying and chemical fertilizers that make the land acidic are to blame
When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could…
Sergey Brin is using money from selling his Tesla shares to bankroll a startup developing hallucinogenic mental-health treatments
Google cofounder Sergey Brin got a $366 million windfall from selling all his Tesla shares back in 2021—now he’s using…
A Nigerian conservationist and his team are racing to save the Atlantic humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszii), a shy, mysterious cetacean…
Eating frogs is a cultural practice in some parts of Ghana, but now a researcher there is studying the impact…
Africa loses 20,000 millionaires in 10 years as the wealthy flee the continent—or stay and watch their riches melt away
The number of millionaires living in Africa dropped by nearly 20,000 in the past decade as the continent’s ultra-rich either moved away…
The ANC party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses its 30-year majority, signaling first-ever coalition government to come
The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new…
A recent Nature Communications study reported that by 2050, up to 246 million people, or 23% of the global population…
Radysis, a company controlled by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, will expand into Africa by providing affordable 5G network infrastructure, applications…
Electric vehicles are all in the news. The global car industry is undergoing a massive digital and electric shift. This…