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Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal are among the invited leaders. The news of the summit comes after a ...
The lack of reliable information about health facilities across sub-Saharan Africa became very clear during the COVID-19 ...
Festus Adegbola’s work on the BioSCape project monitors — from the air — how plants and wildfires influence bird diversity.
Oil prices tumble, and Wall Street nears its record in a worldwide rally for stocks ...
The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.
Explore the key differences between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, including seasons, climate, constellations, and more, explained simply for students. Understand how Earth's tilt affects ...
The NHC is tracking three tropical waves as they move across the Atlantic, central Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea. Here’s ...
That version, which sees Africa expand impressively, is increasingly seen as the closest thing to a perfect area map. It’s the same one Ogundairo’s team is pushing for.
In contrast, the regions along the equator—Africa, India, and South America, to name a few—appear smaller, especially when seen next to the distorted northern half of the map.
In Africa, logistics startups like Sendy, Lori (also backed by Google), and KOBO360 took this approach, aggregating trucks and acting as intermediaries. However, this model has struggled, leading ...
As such, Equator’s fund is looking for commercially viable startups — both those based in or expanding into Africa — that strengthen the case for normalizing climate tech investments. It ...