The Green Revolution brought about a great increase in crop yields in some countries in the Global South. Hybridised seeds produced more grains per plant… Read More »Can the Green Revolution Reduce Sub-Saharan Africa’s Poverty and Food Insecurity?
Food rations have been cut to more than 1.4 million vulnerable refugees in Uganda by the World Food Programme (WFP) because of insufficient funds. Announcing… Read More »Running a Refugee Camp after a 30% Budget Cut
Some one million people in Ethiopia require emergency food aid after swarms of desert locusts damaged 200,000 hectares (half a million acres) of cropland in… Read More »East Africa Braces itself for a Second Wave of Destruction
Engineering student Taha Grach is helping Tunisia in the fight against Covid-19 – by 3D-printing face masks. He is one of six, at the National… Read More »How Tunisia’s 3D Mask are Made
South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni ruled out an International Monetary Fund structural adjustment programme on Tuesday but said the COVID-19 pandemic would cause a… Read More »What South Africa Wants from the IMF
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the fund’s executive board approved on Monday the first batch of countries to receive grants to cover their debt… Read More »African Recipients of the IMF’s Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust
The United Nations is transporting the first cargo of vital medical supplies to a number of African countries to help them contain the spread of… Read More »Express Delivery to Help Fight the Pandemic in Poorer African Countries
Lesotho has yet to record a case of COVID-19 as of April 13, one of two countries to escape the virus since it reached the… Read More »A Landlocked African Country with No Coronavirus Cases, Prepares
A group of Nigerian kids are proving that when it comes to getting creative, less can sometimes be more. The Ikorodu Bois — brothers Muiz… Read More »These Nigerian Influencers Have Caught Hollywood’s Eye
Query allows people to share niche knowledge with each other. Formed in July of last year, but only made available to the public last month,… Read More »Zimbabwean Startup Launches “Knowledge Engine”