Without systematic documentation, traditional plants’ uses could be lost or excluded from mainstream medical discourse.
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South Africa needs a renewable energy industrial strategy, not just requirements for green power projects to buy a percentage of solar parts from local companies.
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The appeal to serve on the board of an NPO may be an emotional one: service and meaning. But hard questions must be answered before taking the step.
Sexuality – especially queer sexuality – has always been one of the most heavily policed themes in African film.
Tensions over the role that credit rating agencies play in assessing African countries have broken into the open.
Benin’s smallholder dairy farmers need development finance to plant shady trees on the land where their cattle graze, to improve cattle health.
Erosion is intensifying in parts of Tanzania. But there are initiatives underway to tackle this gaping problem.
Severe floods hit parts of South Africa in January 2026, damaging roads and forcing evacuations.
Nigeria’s energy insecurity has become one of its most serious development and security challenges.
The story of donkeys in Namibia is one of colonial control but also resistance.
South Africa is driving a radical reform of the way it manages immigration, citizenship and refugees.
Climate change is hitting Kenya’s coastal women and their small tourism businesses, but the loss of their way of life cuts as deeply as the economic damage.
Moto-taxi drivers remain informal workers in an unprotected labour market, while companies chase profits.
Competition for shea trees is rising in west Africa, leaving the poorest women collectors with less access and fewer gains.
Climate change caused drought and flooding is damaging Nigeria’s staple foods, maize, cassava, millet and yam, smallholder farmers say.
The G20’s new critical minerals framework wants to move Africa beyond raw exports so that mineral wealth creates jobs and growth on the continent.
Tax records of the past can inform about governance, markets and inequality today.
Some medical errors are unreported or even unknown to patients. Only those that result in severe complications and death are known and reported.
Climate action can ease or add to crises in the Sahel region.
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