COP27: Climate costs deal struck but no fossil fuel progress

Rich nations will pay climate damages, but the final deal does not cut fossil fuels further.

World Cup 2022: Six questions facing African teams in Qatar

African qualifiers Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia head to the World Cup in Qatar with questions to be answered.

Equatorial Guinea’s Obiang: World’s longest-serving president eyes re-election

The 80-year-old president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, has been in power for 43 years.

The Ethiopian scientist on the search for water on the moon

Nasa research engineer Berhanu Bulcha is working on locating the vital liquid under the lunar surface.

COP27: Ethiopia’s 20-billion tree goal – a sapling success?

Lessons four years on from Ethiopia's ambitious, four-year, mass tree-planting initiative.

Ronald Lamola: South Africa’s ANC ‘rebooting’ institutions to halt corruption

South Africa's government is acting to retrieve money lost to corruption, the justice minister says.

Tevin Tobun: Four things to make a good CEO

Tevin Tobun, is the CEO of GV Group. He turned $600 investment, into a successful food logistics company.

Priscilla Sitienei: Primary school pupil aged 99 dies in Kenya

Priscilla Sitienei was set to sit her final exams next week, along with her 12-year-old classmates.

Meet Senegal’s female barrier breaker in the salt production

Meet a Senegalese's barrier breaker who became the first woman in her country to manage salt marshes.

‘Major’ aims as Cape Town Marathon races to be sport’s greenest event

Organisers of the Cape Town Marathon hope to create the greenest sporting event in the world and become the seventh major marathon.