With biogas as a powerful catalyst, and with a concerted effort from government, innovators, investors, and communities, ...

Nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa are particularly affected, with some reporting more than 500 deaths per 100,000 live births. The findings highlight significant inequalities in maternal health ...

For years, Fentie Wabi worked as a fisherman on Ethiopia’s Lake Tana, until an aggressive green invader changed everything. Water hyacinth, a fast-spreading aquatic weed, began choking the lake that ...

Although nearly 92 per cent of the global population now has basic access to electricity, more than 666 million people still ...

Energy Access Has Improved, Yet International Financial Support Still Needed to Boost Progress and Address Disparities. New report urges scaled-up tailored fi ...

Women and youth continue to face significant barriers in participating in renewable energy value chains, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA region, which are highly vulnerable to the ...

Climate and gender activist Ndivile Mokoena is strengthening her community’s response to climate change, using terms they can relate to.

It turned out Mokoena was running the session as part of the Suncasa (Scaling Urban Nature-based Solutions [NbS] for Climate Adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa) project, which aims to strengthen ...

Far from declining, the sector is expanding. A World Bank report highlights a growing trend: even people with higher levels of education are now entering the informal sector as a career of choice, not ...

Sub-Saharan Africa, which receives more than a quarter of that U.S. foreign assistance, has been especially affected by these cuts. Ari Daniel reports that communities across the continent are ...

African growth then slowed, but the World Bank estimates that sub-Saharan Africa grew by 3.6 percent in 2024 and will grow by 4.2 percent this year — only a hair slower than Asia’s forecast of ...