Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announces Bitcoin and crypto mining plans and seeks a partner to mine Bitcoin directly.

After a newborn died of opioid poisoning, a new branch of pediatrics came into being. But the evidence doesn’t add up.

Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...

Remote sensing can help provide greater understanding of arid regions, water resource potential and dam failure.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) has endorsed a scientific twinning programme between the Abu Dhabi ...

A new approach to antimalarial development, aided by high-throughput screening, could help to overcome resistance.

APPROXIMATELY 90 per cent of Tanzania’s coffee output comes from about 320,000 smallholder farmers, each typically managing around 200 coffee trees on small plots of 0.5–2 acres, underscoring the ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

Nigeria’s poverty debate has drifted into a dangerous simplification. A single figure appears, detached from its assumptions, ...

Africa stands at the edge of a historic demographic shift. By 2050, one in three young people in the world will be African.

In January 2025, when the Trump administration froze nearly all foreign aid, more than 1,000 emergency communal kitchens in Sudan shut down within weeks.