Red Colobus: Conserving these Old World primates could help save Africa’s tropical forests, says study

Colobine species are leaf-eaters, compared to the omnivore cercopithecines; Africa has 17 red colobus, from Senegal to Zanzibar  

Genetically changed mosquitoes could transform Africa’s long fight against malaria

56 African heritage sites threatened by extreme coastal events: Study

North Africa has the largest number of exposed sites

Africa needs $25 billion per year for universal access to clean energy: IEA

As much as $22 billion per year is needed for electricity connections alone

Disaster insurance gains traction in East Africa as small-scale farmers in Kenya receive flood compensation

300 households in Kenya’s Tana River receive over $90,000 as compensation

Hopes dashed as last HIV vaccine trial in Africa for this decade ends in failure

Trial ‘PrEPVacc’ was testing two different vaccine regimens on about 1,500 volunteers in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa

Head of UNAIDS unpacks the knock-on effects of COVID-19. And what needs to be done

AIDS remains a crisis and COVID-19 is making it worse, says Winnie Byanyima

Solar, wind can break Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam deadlock

Why declaring Ebola a public health emergency isn't a silver bullet

More funding can't solve the outbreak of a deadly disease within a conflict zone

Extreme weather in Africa: Floods affect 2 million children in 3 months in these 3 countries

Severe flooding has pushed children in Nigeria, Chad & South Sudan into increased risk of waterborne diseases, malnutrition

No new coal by 2021: Zimbabwe, South Africa may become outliers, flags report

The two southern African countries have new coal projects in the pipeline amid clamour to move away from coal to cleaner fuel

COVID-19 no gamble: Physics-inspired simulations predict waves in these 4 countries

A physicist uses the Monte Carlo Simulation, commonly used in physics & fields as diverse as engineering and finance, to study endemicity

Africa Climate Summit 2023: Invest in resilient, efficient and sustainable food system, leaders urge

Minimising post-harvest food losses and waste, transiting to nature-based solution, among solutions advocated 

World’s beaches are changing because of climate change — green thinking is needed to save them

A two-metre increase in sea levels by 2100 may lead to forced migration of between 72 million and 187 million people  

Kenyan court stays President William Ruto’s directive lifting a ban on logging

Environment and Lands Court stops tree felling until a case filed by the Law Society of Kenya is heard and determined

Africa’s agribusiness sector should drive the continent’s economic development: Five reasons why

Africa’s agriculture sector is the world’s least developed, with lowest levels of labour and land productivity

Sub-Saharan Africa’s debt burden increased to a record $789 billion in 2021, highest since 2010

Low economic growth, skyrocketing inflation, the Ukraine war, massive debts and climate change increased the region’s dependancy on private …

‘Developed countries need to double funding to Africa for adaptation to climate change’

Summit discussed Africa's COP 27 agenda; Calls for flowing funds to continent's Adaptation Acceleration Program

Omicron in southern Africa: ‘Afrophobia’, say Malawians in wake of West’s travel ban

Malawian government says it has the capacity to do genomic sequencing and had not detected the Omicron variant till now

Rising ammonia levels in West Africa linked to biomass burning

The trend was centered over Nigeria and the Southern coast 

Scholarships alone are not enough to get more qualified female teachers into Nigeria’s schools

UNICEF estimates that over half of all girls are not in school in the north while under a third of all primary school teachers are women

Cash transfers can help refugees, but they also carry risks. Insights from Kenya

Unrestricted cash transfers did not always achieve what they were meant for, find researchers in Kalobeyi refugee settlement

COVID-19: Integrating urban and rural safety nets in Africa

Helping urban residents cover costs of return, providing sanitary supplies and scaling up health system surveillance can constitute a safe rural …

Kenyan wildlife policies must extend beyond protected areas

Without policy reforms that integrate conservation with all other sectors of land use, landscapes in Africa may need expensive, large-scale …

Make pandemic preparedness in Africa affordable: WHO

New regional strategy prepared by UN body on disease surveillance and response says investing in pandemic preparedness is an affordable public …