Maternal health is a global priority, and significant progress has been made in reducing maternal mortality rates in recent decades. However, disparities ...

Cooking with such equipment has been found to contribute to 800,000 premature deaths per year, mostly due to household air ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing a sweeping digital transformation, and at its core sits the mobile phone. Far beyond the basic communication function, mobile technology is becoming the backbone of ...

An international team of researchers has made a key discovery: many children and young adults in Sub-Saharan Africa diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) may have a different form of the disease—one ...

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, has secured a €5m (about N8.9bn) grant to develop an artificial intelligence-powered microscope capable of diagnosing some of the world’s most stubborn ...

We were never voiceless. You just refused to listen.” This silent refrain echoes from Accra to Jakarta, from the favelas of Rio to the corridors of Delhi. The world’s power architecture, once held ...

Sub-Saharan Africa saved money using mobile accounts in 2024, well above the 9% average in low- and middle-income countries. Mobile money accounts now fuel nearly 60% of formal borrowing in the region ...

A team from The Wilderness Project has conducted a survey of hippos along Zambia’s Kafue River, one of the last strongholds ...