Category: Science

While this remains relatively unchanged from 2022, factors such as conflict, poverty, climate, economic shocks and Covid-19 have made it unlikely to meet the 2030 sustainable development goal of ending hunger without significant changes to global and local food systems.

This is what Takaungu Regeneration Company aims to achieve in Kilifi, Kenya, through its Greenheart of Kenya (GHK) project), turning previously denuded land into a climate-smart eco-village.

In Taita Taveta County in Kenya’s Coast region, the Kasigau Corridor Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) project one of the ventures making millions from carbon offsetting through community-led conservation, was the world’s first project of its kind and the largest in the...

Residents say Khartoum is littered with dead bodies from fighting between the forces of army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The findings cast a new shadow on the project that has been the subject of debate, as climate activists target it over possible environmental damage.

Evidence from countries that have successfully rolled out digital versions of their fiat currencies, shows that the Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are not effectively discouraging the use of crypto assets.

Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre presided over the launch on Saturday, reviving the country’s collapsed blood ban that had initially been established in 1976 but collapsed in 1991 alongside other state institutions during the civil war.

Adults in low- and middle-income countries account for around 75 percent of the global cases.

Across the Maghreb region, which takes in parts of the Sahara Desert and is plagued by scorching summer heat, countries are banking on new desalination plants and facilities that can purify wastewater for farming.

Speaking at the launch of the 2023 UNAIDS global Aids Update in Geneva, Switzerland, Winnie Byanyima, the executive-director of UNAIDS, said despite the giant strides the world has made in combating the HIV epidemic, the high rate of infections among women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa...