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The scourge of dirty cooking fuels in Africa – an invisible killer for half a million women and children each year – stirred up pledges of €2.2 billion in Paris this week as oil and gas companies joined efforts to bring about access to healthy cooking methods by 2030.

The baobab tree evolved on the island of Madagascar before eventually spreading to Africa and Australia, new research suggests.

A new study resolves this, based on genomic analyses of all eight recognized species as well as ecological and geological data, so the baobab’s story can finally be told.

May 10-16, 2024

Chad's junta leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno won the African nation's May 6 presidential election with 61 percent of the vote, according to final results announced Thursday.

Every day, 750 million people around the world engage with Tiktok – the short-video sharing app. Kenyans are among its top users.

The World Health Organization recently announced an outbreak of hepatitis E in the eastern Ouaddai province of Chad. Between January and April 2024, 2,093 suspected hepatitis E cases were reported from two health districts. The Conversation Africa asked Kolawole Oluseyi Akande, a consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist, to explain the causes,…

Early springs mean food for young of arrivals from west Africa has already disappeared; this year they face the opposite problem

Like hundreds of other pro-Turkish fighters, Omar left northern Syria for mineral-rich Niger last year, joining Syrian mercenaries sent to the West African nation by a private Turkish military company.

Every year, Africa receives billions of dollars of aid. Yet very little of it goes directly to local communities in need.

An ice age almost one million years ago led to a meeting between leopards from central and southern Africa that were searching for grassland. New research into the leopards’ genetics – their mitogenome – has revealed that the descendants of these two groups are the leopards found today in South…