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In South Africa there are at least 23 fully operational wind farms producing almost 2 gigawatts, and several more are about to come online. The… Read More »Balancing South Africa’s Wind Energy and Conservation

Egyptian logistics startup Sprint has plans to expand to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and other countries in the MENA region after signing up almost… Read More »Growing Africa’s Delivery Services

A recent report that Chinese hackers secretly redirected surveillance footage from the African Union headquarters so it could be viewed abroad is part of a… Read More »Why is China Bugging the AU?

Residents of Lagos, the most populous city in Nigeria – and Africa – have been dealing with even more traffic problems than usual because of… Read More »Traffic Delays Add to Lagosians’ Woes

When colleagues from the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute came across a Nubian giraffe in Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park in… Read More »East Africa’s New Giraffe Species

At least two children and one woman drowned after a passenger boat sank on Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a… Read More »Ferry Tragedy in the DRC’s Lake Kivu

The Pink Hijab Initiatives, launched by Khadija Omari Kayanda, is guiding hundreds of Muslim women in business careers, a daring act in Tanzania. A devoted… Read More »Tanzanian Women Confront Stereotypes of What a Woman and Wife should be in Islam

After 5 years of studies, they discovered that the classical photovoltaic sizing calculation system had several inconsistencies that their software aims to correct. Alain Tossa,… Read More »Togolese Start-up Develops the First African Solar Sizing Software

Homophobic comments by Uganda’s president and other politicians are making some LGBT+ Ugandans too scared to vote in elections scheduled for January 14, gay rights… Read More »Too Afraid to Vote in Uganda