[SciDev.Net] In the age of skylines, steel and star architects, it is easy to forget that the basic role of architecture is to provide shelter. Housing, when stripped of its ability to represent and impress, remains a basic need. This is particularly important for communities who have lost their homes following disaster, or who live in precarious conditions at the margins of society.
[Reporter] The practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around a town, or city - urban farming - is been practiced in Addis Ababa for quite some time now. Urban farming is considered to have a lot of advantages.
[Reporter] On Thursday 26 November 2015, Hailemariam Dessalegn held his first exclusive interview with a private Ethiopian newspaper when he sat down with Asrat Seyoum and Zekarias Sintayehu of The Reporter.
[Nyasa Times] Church leaders in Ntcheu district have been cautioned on spiritual healing, a trending phenomenon that is discouraging people from taking medical drugs.
[Al Jazeera] At the first African Girls Summit on ending child marriage in Lusaka there's plenty of debate and ideas swirling around the conference hall.
[Deutsche Welle] Countries that share Lake Chad will be asking world leaders at the climate talks in Paris to help them transfer water from the Congo basin. The once rich lake has lost 90 percent of its water due to climate change.