businessdailyafrica.com — Eleven years ago, as a Fulbright scholar, Nina Dudnik did a year-long research stint at the Africa Rice Centre in Côte d’Ivoire, where her colleagues meticulously rinsed out disposable items, such as pipette tips, so they could re-use them. Soon after, when she went to graduate school at Harvard University, United States, she saw that serviceable equipment and laboratory equip...

theatlantic.com — Newly elected Zambian President Michael Sata is bringing populism and technocratic management to a part of the world that rarely sees either but badly needs both....

edition.cnn.com — Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Kenyan Wangari Maathai, the first woman from Africa to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died Monday after a battle with cancer. She was 71.

Maathai, an environmentalist, had long campaigned for human rights and the empowerment of Africa's most impoverished people....

mashable.com — A slew of mobile initiatives are revolutionizing the way that healthcare is delivered in Africa and other developing communities. While much has been made of the “mobile revolution” in North America, phones are even more important in developing communities where they are sometimes the only way for people to share and receive information....

dailymail.co.uk — These dramatic pictures show a clash of the titans as a protective elephant mum and a ferocious crocodile get in an epic tug of war in Zambia....

online.wsj.com — Two South African companies are attempting to elbow their way into the global defense market with an unusual new aircraft developed on home soil. Paramount Group and Aerosud Holdings on Tuesday will unveil the Ahrlac, a compact plane that merges the capabilities of a drone, an attack helicopter and other surveillance aircraft.The Ahrlac—short for Advanced High Performance Reconnaissance ...

theeastafrican.co.ke — It’s a perception changer in other ways too, as it argues, through demonstration, against basic misunderstandings surrounding this art. African art has no history? No independent tradition of realism?...

youtube.com — When a monkey decides to go for food, not much can stop it from getting what it wants. The video footage takes place just outside Lake Nakuru National Park in Kenya....