[The Conversation Africa] Across Africa - from South Africa to Botswana, Kenya to Rwanda and many others - January marks the beginning of the academic year for millions of new pupils.
[The Conversation Africa] The informal economy in Africa is big business. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that its average size as a percentage of gross domestic product in sub-Saharan Africa is 41%. This ranges from under 30% in South Africa to 60% in Nigeria, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
[UN News] The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners announced today they predict a major global increase in health consequences of emergencies this year due to El Niño.
[HRW] "Badessa" was a third-year engineering student in western Ethiopia in April 2014 when he and most of his classmates joined a protest over the potential displacement of ethnic Oromo farmers like his family because of the government's plan to expand the capital, Addis Ababa, into the farmland.
[SAnews.gov.za] Pretoria -President Jacob Zuma and his delegation have on Friday held what has been described as a fruitful and successful interaction with global investors at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
[The Conversation Africa] A homeopathic flu product is being advertised in South Africa despite the fact that an internationally based review, and an update to it, have found the product to be ineffective.
[The Conversation Africa] As the temperatures soar and weather patterns continue to be affected by global warming and climate dynamics, more people - particularly in developing countries - are likely to die from natural deaths such as respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease and stroke deaths.
