In its latest report, Transport Connectivity for Food Security in Africa: Strengthening Supply Chains, the World Bank highlights the challenges of transporting agricultural goods across the continent, ...

In this bibliometric analysis, we evaluated authorship of publications about sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) funded by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the US National Institutes of Health, an ...

The Hadejia Wetlands National Park in northwestern Nigeria is a vital ecological treasure, designated as both a globally ...

Objective To identify, describe and map the research tools used to measure COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, refusal, acceptance and access in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design Scoping review. Methods In ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, estimated in 2020 to be 545 maternal deaths per 100 000 livebirths, more than 136 times higher than that of the lowest region.1 ...

Africa gave Michael Hincks the travel bug when he was 16. Soon, he was five continents down and keen to complete the set ...

This June, southern France is choking under an intense bout of air pollution with unusually far-reaching origins, as the skies have turned into a global highway where haze from Canada’s aggressive ...

Airtel Africa has released its comprehensive Sustainability Report 2025, showcasing remarkable progress in digital transformation across sub-Saharan Africa. The telecommunications giant, operating in ...

Sub-Saharan Africa saw a modest increase in overall cryptocurrency usage in 2024, but stablecoin adoption is accelerating more rapidly, according to a report by Chainalysis.

The burden of hypertension is rising rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), posing significant health challenges and economic costs that hinder national development. Despite being well-studied in ...

The change of hitting 40C has almost tripled since the year 2000. Dr Gillian Kay, a senior scientist at the Met Office and lead author of the study, said: “The chance of exceeding 40C has been rapidly ...

Meta, in partnership with national innovation agencies and ecosystem partners, has launched the Llama Impact Accelerator Program across Sub-Saharan Africa to support the development of open-source AI ...