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South Africa has enough Covid jabs to vaccinate up to half of the country’s 6.5-million children between the ages of 12 and 17...

As a Covid-19 surge overwhelmed Uganda earlier this year, Livingstone Musaala, who had to quit his teaching job after schools closed, turned to...

“When we arrived at the Durban Deep Mine, it was already dusk. With a rope tied around my neck and my wrists cuffed,...

The 2021 Nobel prize in physics, shared by three laureates, means the conversation about climate change should no longer be about debating the...

Over the past five years, just 10 African scientists worked on the 100 most-cited climate research papers globally. Fewer than a quarter of...

Every morning, Wilson Ovwiroro leaves home early to paddle a wooden canoe into thick rainforest in southern Nigeria, where he taps raffia palms,...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Centre For years, Zimbabwe’s female informal cross-border traders have been targeted for robbery, because they are assumed...

If the testimony of whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former Facebook data scientist, before a US Senate subcommittee told us anything, it was that...

The Congo Basin rainforest in Central Africa is Earth’s African lung. With an area as big as Western Europe, it is the second-largest...

The World Mental Health Day campaign has chosen “Mental Health in an Unequal World” as the theme for 2021. This is partly to...

The incubation of the Musina Makhado Special Economic Zone is a surprisingly long one. Former minister of trade and industry Rob Davies endorsed...

It’s common knowledge that, since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, international travel and tourism have been restricted. Fortunately, now that increasing numbers...

I’m selling books now one year before the lockdown started. After I lost my job, I ended up on the street. I didn’t have...

It’s becoming more difficult by the day to deny that Bitcoin seems set for a meteoric climb back to all-time price highs. A...

A future-focused approach to postgraduate studies The workplace is changing, and universities need to change too if students are to be primed for real-world...