Centre of attention
Ethiopia has set itself an ambitious goal of becoming one of Africa’s top five tourist destinations by tripling its number of foreign visitors... Read more
19 Jul, 2016
Driving progress
Many of Nigeria’s small-scale and subsistence farmers – responsible for at least 80% of the country’s food production –... Read more
19 Jul, 2016
Extraordinary measures
Just as DNA helps authorities catch and prosecute perpetrators of human crimes, a new technique could lead to identifying rhino poachers... Read more
19 Jul, 2016
Riding the wave
Since Mauritius has no known oil, natural gas or coal reserves, it depends on imported petroleum products to meet... Read more
5 Jul, 2016
Ray of light
Universally, boiling water is the most accepted way of disinfecting it but in shanty towns such as Kiberia in Kenya – where most residents... Read more
5 Jul, 2016
Deep understanding
South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg is set to open a new unit that’s designed to prepare students for... Read more
5 Jul, 2016
Finders keepers
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has come up with a new way to reduce the amount of uncleared cargo... Read more
14 Jun, 2016
Crash course
With a mere two cars per every 1 000 Ethiopians – compared to Africa’s 44-cars-per-1 000-people average – the East African... Read more
14 Jun, 2016
The right medicine
More often than not, pharmacies in Accra find themselves running out of stock before new supplies arrives. This results... Read more
14 Jun, 2016
Go with the grain
There are no two ways about it – the bottom line from agricultural experts is that Africa needs more... Read more
10 May, 2016
