Dubai aims to create an oasis that covers more than 10 percent of its land with saltwater rice developed by Chinese researchers and then expand out to the rest of the Middle East and North Africa. The ...

The U.S. government has shut down Power Africa, a program launched in 2013 by former President Barack Obama to expand electricity access across Africa, Bloomberg reports. Most of Power Africa’s ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

It was the late 19th century and European nations were beginning to look at the African continent as a more permanent resource base for their newly growing industrial sectors. More than the ...

Francisca Mutapi is the Deputy Director of the Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) Partnership and Deputy Board Chair of Uniting to Combat NTDS. She sits on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth ...

Momoko Suzuki noted that the government of Japan has been supporting rice production in Africa for quite some time, of which Ghana has been a beneficiary. “In May 2008 – on the occasion of the Tokyo ...

Legend has it Bernard Shabangu's grandfather, Bhobho, once speared down a lion that was terrorising his community in Mpumalanga, a province in eastern South Africa. The story goes that the lion ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Placeholders prepare for the family photo of the G20 foreign ministers meeting that was later cancelled in ...

Ms. Suzuki acknowledged Japan’s ongoing commitment to enhancing rice production in Africa, referencing a partnership with the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) established in 2008. This ...

Krutham managing director Peter Attard Montalto said the budget speech debacle is a wake-up call to everyone in South Africa and a pathway to higher primary surpluses. Finance Minister Enoch ...