1+ hour, 23+ min ago  (348+ words) Douglas Mafukidze is a tobacco farmer and conservationist from Karoi, Zimbabwe. He's an early adopter of, and fierce advocate for, an initiative started by the Forestry Commission in Zimbabwe to protect indigenous forests. Having lived in the Karoi area for…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (220+ words) Solar irrigation pumps and agricultural inputs handed over to women-headed households in rural Blantyre, Malawi, in July 2025 are transforming lives, enabling year-round farming that has pulled families out of poverty and improved school attendance and nutrition for children. Domwe Active…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (367+ words) Malawi is losing an estimated 250, 000 hectares of forest cover every year, a trend that is accelerating environmental degradation and exposing communities to increasingly severe climate-related disasters, Minister of Natural Resources, Patricia Wiskes, has warned. Wiskes sounded the alarm on Friday,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (375+ words) In 2009, Brazil'banned'electronic smoking devices, including e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products, and other emerging nicotine delivery systems. However, a loophole in'the law'left open a pathway for'Big Tobacco'and their allies to seek approval if they could demonstrate that their products were safe. Nearly…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (619+ words) Nigeria's offshore energy sector continues to expand with the Nkuku Ikong Field Development Project, a new development in Akwa Ibom State, combining two separate hydrocarbon discoveries awarded by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC). The fields contain high-quality light…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (253+ words) The Republic of Congo says it plans to mobilise $2. 031 billion to expand electricity access and drive industrial transformation. The Prime Minister of Congo, Anatole Makosso, made this known at the Congo Investment Day at the 2026 Annual Meetings of the African…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (312+ words) Drug Fight Malawi says Malawi continues to face growing health complications linked to tobacco smoking, with more than 5, 000 deaths recorded annually from smoking-related illnesses. Executive Director, Nelson Zakeyo, said despite Malawi ratifying the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (200+ words) Director General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Dr Jean Kaseya, said governments and partners pledged approximately $498. 8 million to strengthen Ebola response efforts in affected African countries. He said the funding would also support preparedness and…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (487+ words) The Pan-African AU Agenda 2063 Diplomatic Mission commenced its three-day events to mark the 2026 Africa Day in Abuja on Saturday, May 23. The events started with a "Liberation Walk" from the Jabi Lake Mall to the Jabi Lake Waterfront, and back to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (509+ words) Africa's next energy expansion cycle will be defined less by discovery and more by execution as governments and operators race to convert reserves into infrastructure, export capacity and long-term industrial growth. Africa's upstream oil and gas sector is entering a…...