城市转型
Slum populations are set to surge as the housing crisis bites
Beatrice Oriyo laughed out loud when asked if there was a playground where her three children could play near her home in Kibera, Nairobi’s biggest informal settlement.
Nita Bhalla
Nita Bhalla covers disasters and conflicts, development, womens rights, climate change and governance.
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深度地理
Women take the lead in Africa's fintech boom
When financial analyst Oluwatosin Olaseinde moved back home to Nigeria in 2013 after a decade studying and working abroad, she decided it was time to tackle her own finances, so started r...
深度产业
Agri-tech digital tools boost crops for farmers across Africa
Until a year ago, it would take Pamela Auma a whole month to prepare the land on her farm in western Kenya for planting ahead of the rainy season.
食品和水资源
40% of global crop production is lost to pests. And it’s getting worse
Ravenous pests are on the march to colder regions as climate change lures crop eaters to new territories, threatening jobs and exacerbating world hunger, the United Nations said on Wednes...
深度地理
African rainforests slow climate change despite record heat and droughts
Africa's tropical forests appear more resilient as carbon sinks than Amazonian rainforests - mopping up planet-warming carbon dioxide even when sizzling El Nino heat halted absorption in ...
深度地理
Climate change threatens Kenyan tea sector, putting millions of workers at risk
Climate change is set to ravage tea production in Kenya, the biggest global supplier of black tea, threatening the livelihoods of millions of plantation workers, a report by British chari...
健康与医疗系统
One in two people globally lost income due to the pandemic
One in two people worldwide saw their earnings drop due to the coronavirus, with people in low-income countries particularly hard hit by job losses or cuts to their working hours, researc...
健康与医疗系统
Africa: COVID-19 could cause a million excess deaths from these 3 diseases
Africa's 1.3 billion people may have fared better than expected in terms of containing COVID-19 but the pandemic has dealt a severe blow to already weak health services, raising fears of ...
深度地理
Fresh waves of locusts threaten to decimate farms across eastern Africa
A new generation of locust swarms is threatening to wipe out the livelihoods of farmers and herders across eastern Africa - deepening a food crisis in a region where 35 million people are...
深度地理
Futures destroyed: COVID-19 unleashes 'shadow pandemics' on Africa's girls
Until the new coronavirus hit Kenya in March, 17-year-old schoolgirl Anna believed the world was hers for the taking.
健康与医疗系统
COVID-19: This is how a lack of tourism is impacting Kenya's Maasai
For more than 50 years, Loiman Letolo, 70, has peddled her colourful beaded necklaces and bracelets to safari-goers at the entrance gates to Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve.
健康与医疗系统
Wildlife tourism in the pandemic: what will happen to the parks, staff and animals?
For more than two decades, M Khairi spent his days working as a park guide, accompanying a steady trickle of tourists keen to trek across the lush forests of western Indonesia or spot an ...
第四次工业革命
Smart drones to be tested in battle against E. Africa locust swarms
The United Nations is to test drones equipped with mapping sensors and atomizers to spray pesticides in parts of east Africa battling an invasion of desert locusts that are ravaging crops...
自然与生物多样性
Water shortage in Africa is a deadly problem - but this innovative solution could change that
High-tech solar pumps mapping underground freshwater reservoirs across Africa are collecting data that can help prevent them running dry, according to the project's developers.
深度地理
When was the last time you saw an African hero in a video game?
A Kenyan firm offers games with subtle messages on themes like conservation, climate change and culture.