Roughly 80 per cent of people who have no access to electricity globally live in Nigeria and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa despite a decline of the number by more than 10 million, a new report ...

Power shortages affecting Southern Africa need a coordinated response to ensure all countries have adequate electricity and can press ahead with their development plans, Vice President Dr Constantino ...

Ouagadougou — "The refusal to negotiate has increased the suffering of the populations." On the day that a new junta seized power in Burkina Faso two years ago, community leader Ibrahim Zongo* was in ...

Analysis - Ghanaian elections have become much more challenging for politicians. In the past they have often been characterised as nothing more than an ethnic headcount. But since the 2008 ...

Analysis - Negotiators and activists from Africa say there has been very little positive progress at COP29 as well as a worrying focus on false solutions.

Farmers in Kenya's west of the Rift received the lowest bonus for the 2023/24 financial year as earnings were dented by unsold tea stockpiles at the Mombasa auction, industry data showed.

Analysis - Zimbabwe's government undertook a survey in 2023 to ascertain how many children were living on the streets of the country's second biggest city, Bulawayo. The most recent numbers were from ...

A report released last week by Sudanese and international organisations condemned the military presence in Zamzam camp, one of Darfur's largest camps for displaced people, urging an immediate halt to ...

Nigerians are celebrating the success of Chidimma Adetshina at the Miss Universe contest in Mexico Saturday. Adetshina fell ...

Over a thousand homes in Gugulethu in Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal, depend on just six water tanks for all their needs - cooking, drinking, laundry and flushing toilets. Recently, GroundUp was shown how ...

Appellate Division has declined a request from the Tanzanian government to dismiss an appeal filed by four civil society organizations (CSOs) opposing the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) ...

According to many observers in the field, art conservation in Ethiopia is a recent phenomenon although the country is endowed with rich and diverse and ancient artistic legacies. According to a ...