DNA, a Thiés-based design and construction company started by three college students, is changing how people think about...

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Southern African Development Community member states are promoting their very successful model of conserving shared wildlife resources...

To make his school more accessible - and help clean up his local community - 38-year-old Patrick Mbamarah accepts plastic bottles...

Maize and sugarcane farmers in Kenya are now turning to sunflower, which grows faster, is less labour-intensive and gives higher yields....

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Editor's note: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Our bird story of the week (which has over 1 million reads and counting ) gives you a...

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Despite individual African governments having an essential role in tourism management, private wildlife reserves are proving to be the...

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It's a demanding, highly-competitive industry with long days, short nights, and high capital requirements to provide top-end product....

Celebrating 20 years since its first cohort, this university has graduated over 8000 women, among them top government officials,...

A Kenyan entrepreneur whose desperate measures to keep going during COVID-19 lockdowns included a mobile, high-end barber service, is now...

You could consider Abel Mutua part stand-up comedian, part hype man, part voice actor (in the great Kenyan tradition of Maina and...

Kenyans are known for their dominance in middle and long-distance races around the world. Eliud Kipchoge and Faith Kipyegon have not...

Construction of Africa's largest science experiment, known as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) - a telescope, which comprises two giant...

According to experts, an equivalent of two football pitches of seagrass - a critical bulwark against sea warming and a generator of...

A women-led initiative to reclaim their heritage and protect their island from mangrove logging is having an outsized impact. By Jackson...