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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)
As investment pours in, they are expanding across the continent and into new services | Finance & economics (2021)
Despite visa problems and limited resources, African technologists are only accelerating their research. Can they make AI work for the continent? (2019)
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)
What a time to own the world’s most valuable cobalt mine, and to have to fight to keep it. (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)
detailed report from RAND (2003) (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)
THE people of Cape Town have spent recent years praying for rain. It has not come often enough. Lawns have faded to brown and swimming pools have g... (2018)
The world has made huge progress in reducing extreme poverty; could this be coming to an end? In the last three decades, the world has made prog... (2026)
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)
With a proposed capacity of 11 GWh , South Africa accounts for a large share of Africa’s battery energy storage pipeline. This is more than... (2025)
For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease. (2025)
A recent survey carried out by CNBC reported that 81% of executives worldwide say AI will play a prominent and critical role in how their businesse... (2022)
Carry1st is Africa's leading mobile games publisher, serving over 1 million users today. Most notably, Carry1st has aggregated Africa's disparate p... (2022)
The African continent is currently one of the fastest-growing regions when it comes to mobile growth, and financial technology companies that are b... (2020)
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)
Yesterday a Kenyan startup called Twiga Foods raised $30 million from Goldman Sachs, including a $23.75 million equity investment and $6.25 million... (2019)
The Partech Africa Fund plans to make 20 to 25 investments across roughly 10 countries over the next several years. (2019)
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)
TechCrunch - Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley (2018)
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)
"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's hap... (2018)
Vox: Published on Dec 2, 2016 Making accurate world maps is mathematically impossible. (2017)
Researchers don’t know enough about giraffes—and as populations dwindle, they’re running out of time. (2021)