A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world's people (49% or 4 ...

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By Louis GYIMAHIn the mid-2020s, the world economy continues to demonstrate unprecedented complexity, interdependency, and velocity. The fragility of global economic systems was highlighted by the ...

South Africa’s G20 presidency wants to set up at least three projects to share energy across borders in Africa within 10 ...

It would be foolhardy to believe that the temporary truce between Israel and Iran will hold indefinitely. It is important ...

Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, remained a primarily cash economy, due to factors including limited infrastructure and ...

The U.S. should establish a U.S.-Africa Security Defense Tax Credit to incentivize American companies to invest in Africa’s critical minerals sector, reducing dependence on China and fosterin… ...

South Africa is home to three of the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots. One is the Succulent Karoo, covering 116 000 km 2 in Western and Northern Cape provinces and across the border into Namibia. The ...

Africa experiences the world’s highest rate of forest loss, with 3.9 million hectares lost annually from 2010–2020, mainly due to agricultural expansion, fuelwood harvesting, logging, and mining.

The region is decades behind in its “demographic transition”. Its working-age population will rise by around 700m by 2050, ... → Emigration from Africa will change the world ; ...