Browsing: Africa
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…
Africa is a wide open market for smartphone firms but new users face risks: ‘Tech can be used for awful things’
Anita Akpeere prepared fried rice in her kitchen in Ghana’s capital as a flurry of notifications for restaurant orders lit…
I grew up in Kenya’s biggest slum and know from experience: International aid must shift toward community-based organizations
I grew up in Kenya’s Kibera slum, the largest urban slum in Africa, and experienced extreme poverty firsthand. I was…
The World Health Organization estimates that at least one-third of the world’s population does not have access to essential medicines,…
Farmers in Africa look to ancient fertilizer methods and new greenhouse technologies as climate change parches the land
From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are…
‘Carbon colonialism’ in Africa meets resistance as companies seek to sell carbon credits from conservation projects that often upend local livelihoods—or worse
Matthew Walley’s eyes sweep over the large forest that has sustained his Indigenous community in Liberia for generations. Even as…
Africa is the most youthful continent, with 70% of sub-Saharan Africa under age 30. With high fertility rates and objections…
I continued on from my visit to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to the IEEE Region 8 meeting in…












