CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS/FILEAfrican countries are losing nearly five per cent of their GDP, with many reallocating over eight per cent of their budgets to address climate related disasters. The World ...

About 2.5 million years ago, the viruses infecting fish in Lake Tanganyika underwent a mysterious explosion in diversity. It ...

The WHO Africa office said the quick progression from sickness to death in Boloko is a key concern, along with the high ...

Increasing drug resistance, climate change, humanitarian crises, funding gaps and the spread of invasive mosquito species are some of the factors intensifying urban malaria transmission in ...

KENYA has launched the Re-greening for the Future project, a $2.21 million research initiative aimed at climate-proofing East ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's absence follows a boycott of a G-20 foreign ministers meeting in South Africa by U.S.

South Africa's G20 presidency this year will prioritise efforts to help developing countries finance their shift to a ...

Reducing emissions, removing greenhouse gases, repairing ecosystems and building resilience are the four R’s that can save ...

South Africa sought to salvage international talks on tackling global poverty on Wednesday as finance chiefs of several ...

Agreeing on a declaration has always been tough for a gathering that includes rivals China, Russia, the European Union and the United States, but differences are starker than ever, and some finance mi ...

New research suggests that all five subregions of Africa will breach the 1.5 C climate change threshold -- the limit stipulated by the Paris Agreement -- by 2040 even under low emission scenarios.

Shyla Raghav moderated a conversation with four female climate leaders at TIME’s annual Women of the Year Leadership Forum ...