Experts agree that the private sector must play a role in African urbanization, saying African states are too fiscally constrained to fill the investment gap themselves. Rendeavour, a private company with a multibillion-dollar balance sheet, has deep enough pockets to make a difference.

Boost in commodities demand helps narrow Africa's China trade deficit as nations urge more imports of processed goods China's imports from Africa rose to US$116.8 billion last year, up 6.9 per cent compared to 2023,

According to official estimates, about 5 million people are bitten by snakes each year. About 120,000 die, and some 400,000 lose limbs to amputation.

Gen Z and millennials protested in Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria and Mozambique in 2024, and some analysts expect this activism to intensify in 2025 as grievances persist. Youthful protestors demonstrate against the Finance Bill 2024 on Kimathi Street, Nairobi on June 20 2024.

Turning into Tatu City, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, feels like stepping into another world

Most of the population growth expected over the rest of the 21st century is expected to take place in Africa. These new generations are already leaving their mark. Political parties that trace their roots to the independence struggles of the 20th century are losing support from a generation of better educated and digitally connected Africans.

Sub-Saharan African countries lost $1.56 billion to government-induced shutdowns in 2024, according to a new report by Top10vpn, an international VPN review website.

Discover Tatu City, a model for new city development in Africa, offering law and order, economic growth, and urban innovation.

Analysis - Increasing levels of extreme poverty in Africa were turbocharged by COVID-19, fuelling the fire of relative deprivation.

Enviro Automotive, a South African importer and distributor of multibrand electric vehicles, introduced a Chinese-made Dayun Yuehu, a four-seater mini SUV electric car, into the country in July, which is the cheapest electric vehicle so far, retailing at just under $21,899.

A team of researchers has mapped predicted bioavailable strontium isotope ratios across all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Archaeologists, conservation scientists, and forensics experts will now be able to match values from the map against those observed in ...

But sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing while still poor ... Tatu City is 12 miles (19 kilometers) north of Nairobi, close enough to plug into its labor markets. According to Lockhart with ...