Guest Column - Every four years, a new U.S. administration brings with it a reshuffling of global priorities. Africa is often ...

Ethiopians right to life is in a "critical" state due to the combined effects of ongoing armed conflicts, natural disasters, and a near-total breakdown of public services, according to the latest ...

Extended Producer Responsibility laws changed South Africa's packaging industry, exposing both the promise and pitfalls of producer-led waste reform. As textile waste increases, the sector faces ...

Using Google Earth Engine, Daily Maverick layered satellite-derived pollution exposure data with indicators of vulnerability, including poverty, lack of healthcare access and proximity to emissions ...

In part 2 of Daily Maverick's mapping project on air pollution, we see and hear from community members in Thubelihle, Mpumalanga.

Thubelihle, a township in Mpumalanga, appears unremarkable on a map -- until the layers are added: coal plants, population density, lack of healthcare and clouds of ash. It's here that our ...

Deputy Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Mmapaseka Steve Letsike, has condemned the viral video depicting a schoolgirl being assaulted.

Addis Ababa / Washington D.C. / Minneapolis - In a move that has sent shockwaves through East African diaspora communities in the U.S., the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has publicly called for an ...

Neony Market Agents has joined Joburg Market to connect small-scale farmers with formal produce buyers and financial help. The agency signed a three-year mentorship deal with Dapper Market Agents to ...

Sudan's Permanent Representative to the African Union, Ambassador Al-Zein Ibrahim Hussein, addressed the Peace and Security Council (PSC) meeting held at the African Union Informal Consultative ...

As Nigerian women dominate sports on the continent, they're facing off not just against top talent abroad but a domestic atmosphere of mismanagement and pay disparities -- and even the risk of ...

An infant is among five people killed in an accident along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway when an overtaking family car collided with an oncoming vehicle.