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Gender equality

How a transgender tobacco farmer in Zimbabwe is fighting for dignity

In a country where queer people face exclusion, formal agriculture offers rare stability. Yet significant risks remain.

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu

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There are also women and children working in illegal cobalt mines in the DRC. Without cobalt and other raw materials needed for hardware, there would be no AI.

Technology

How AI exploits

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by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
by Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed

Energy supply

Zambia supports $ 50 billion funding pledge to expand energy access in Africa

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by Derrick Silimina

Inflation

Malawi struggles with rising costs of essentials

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by Charles Pensulo
As international inflation made wheat more expensive, many West Africans once more opted for cassava, which some consider to be a poor person’s food.

Agricultural research

Research needed on traditional African foods

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by Hans Dembowski
In Africa, supply chains are less well monitored than in Europe: Yam wholesale market in Accra, the Ghanaian capital.

African food systems

Lack of research thwarts African food security

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by Hans Dembowski
Health Worker during an outdoor community health outreach in central Malawi.

USAID cutbacks

African countries must invest in health

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by Ralph Achenbach

Natural resources

Illegal fishing endangers Kenya’s economy and environment

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by Joseph Maina
ERG salvages usable parts from discarded digital devices and sorts the waste materials for recycling purposes.

Digital-waste management

TV sets for poor households in Ghana

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by Hans Dembowski
Mourning USAID in Washington.

West Africa

Trump is encouraging African despots

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by Vladimir Antwi-Danso
by Hans Dembowski
The mopane worm is an important source of food in Zimbabwe.

Food security

How farming initiatives preserve Zimbabwe’s mopane worms

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by Derick Matsengarwodzi