Got you covered Small-scale famers in Kenya, with as little as one acre of land, can now insure their produce against natural disasters such as drought. According to the World Bank, approximately 65%… Read more
Sending a message Four hundred and fifty million. That’s the number of tweets recorded in 2015 by Egypt – the most active African nation on Twitter. An annual report by London-based company Portland Communications… Read more
Risky business While development of Africa’s natural resources such as oil, gas and minerals are important for the continent’s growth, it could be detrimental to more than 70% of sub-Saharan Africa’s natural heritage sites… Read more
Nosing around The Gambian pouched rat – or Cricetomys gambianu – has a highly sensitive nose that has helped clear more than 13 000 landmines across the continent. And now they’re being trained… Read more
What’s all the buzz about? The key to unlocking cures for a series of diseases may well lie in the humble African fruit fly. Normally, most of the biomedical research conducted in African laboratories is done… Read more
