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It is too expensive to protect them from poachers | Middle East & Africa (2023)
Geothermal energy and cheap talent offer comparative advantage | Middle East & Africa Carbon removal; the great carbon valley. Kenya is a surpri... (2023)
Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)
A deal for Ghana is the first test case for a new approach. IMF, World Bank, the Paris Club, China and lending in Africa (2023)
THE ONLY thing that can accelerate as fast as an electric car is the price of the most expensive metal in its batteries. Once a niche input used to... (2018)
IT EMERGED on July 2nd that Hollywood may make “The King of Oil”, a film about Marc Rich, an American-Swiss commodities trader who became a fabulou... (2018)
Gateway to the globe GROWING up in a military dictatorship, Than Swe, a young member of Myanmar’s business elite, saw the Western world as a pr... (2018)
“Once again it is threatening to cause trouble, this time in the growing market for batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), each of which uses about... (2018)
IN 2016 it became a common sight in the capital of Zimbabwe to see fearful citizens queuing outside banks, waiting hopefully for cash. It was the m... (2018)
What a time to own the world’s most valuable cobalt mine, and to have to fight to keep it. (2018)
In 2021, around 1.25 million people died from diarrheal diseases. Around a third of these deaths were children. Two main factors explain why so ... (2026)
2017: "Bitcoin climbed as much as 10% on Zimbabwe’s Golix exchange on Wednesday after the country’s armed forces seized power. The price of th... (2017)
Few cryptocurrency projects are evangelizing in emerging markets as aggressively as dash, giving $2.3 million to communities in the developing world. (2018)
For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease. (2025)
Blame fast fashion 80 percent is sent to textile recyclers who then determine the next cycle of the garment's life. Almost half of the donations... (2020)
As long as the Renaissance Dam remains an instrument in Ethiopia’s bid to control the Blue Nile, negotiations are doomed. (2020)
Wealthy nations have ordered millions of doses of unproven candidates, but equal access is the key to beating virus (2020)
Andela, the company that connects Africa’s top software developers with technology companies from the U.S. and around the world, has raised $100 mi... (2019)
Embattled leader of Cape Town warns coastal city will have to shut off taps amid devastating drought (2018)
The Guardian, 2017: "Rare footage of the capture of wild young elephants in Zimbabwe shows rough treatment of the calves as they are sedated and ta... (2017)
Soon, another billion people will be online, mostly from developing nations. How will these new users embrace this technology to transform their li... (2024)
John Oliver discusses chocolate, cocoa farming, and, of course, some facts that will make Halloween a little weird.Connect with Last Week Tonight o... (2023)
This project is worth the same as the country's entire GDP.Correction: The map at 3:41 shows the Walvis Bay. The Port of Luderitz is located furthe... (2023)
Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War (2023)
These folks engineering a much better way to deliver your basically anything. If you want to engineer your own creations with me every month, just ... (2023)
France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa (2023)
Zimbabwe has been mining lithium for 60 years and the government estimates that its Chinese-owned Bikita mine, which is located 300 km south of the... (2023)
The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris (2023)
How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara (2022)
How would you like to pay $417.00 per sheet of toilet paper? Sound crazy? It’s not as crazy as you may think. Here’s a story of how this happened i... (2018)
Vox: Published on Dec 2, 2016 Making accurate world maps is mathematically impossible. (2017)