Africa’s climate challenge is becoming an economic and development issue that governments, investors and international institutions can no longer treat separately from growth planning. The 2026 report New Data for Africa’s Changing Climate: Mapping Risks, Readiness and Policy Action, prepared through work involving the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), OECD Sahel and West…
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Addis Ababa –Health leaders and partners from eleven countries in the WHO African Region have concluded the first regional review and learning meeting of a three-year initiative aimed at preventing and treating child wasting.
Africa’s future food security is being shaped not only in farmers’ fields, but also in laboratories, breeding programs, and data science classrooms where a new generation of scientists is acquiring the knowledge needed to breed the climate-smart, nutritious, and high-yielding crops of tomorrow.
CHIFENG, China, Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Envision Energy, a global leader in green technology, today announced a collaboration with Sasol, a global energy and chemicals company, to advance the design study of a potential green hydrogen system at Sasol’s Sasolburg operations in South Africa. The collaboration marks an important step in exploring how future…
30 July, 2026African mining unions have launched the African mining network (AMNet) to coordinate regional action on the sector. The network will focus on mine workers’ rights, precarious work, health and safety, critical minerals, supply-chain accountability and a Just Transition across the continent.
Despite recent advances in climate change attribution, many health impacts remain unmeasured1. Here we leverage over a century of clinical data2 to investigate whether human-caused climate change has increased the burden of childhood malaria across sub-Saharan Africa. We find a robust effect of temperature and extreme precipitation on prevalence, consistent with previous findings at local scales…
