Apeel, a food science start-up focused on food waste, has a new approach to a big problem for the world's smallest farms, and it has raised $30 million from investors including the World Bank Group's IFC.
A relentless second wave of coronavirus has stopped oil demand recovery, but the prospect of increased supply is further raising the stakes for OPEC+.
Details were not immediately available, but the two sides were taking part in a signing ceremony in Geneva on Friday morning.
When South Africa reopens on Oct. 1, travelers can visit private game reserves in KwaZulu-Natal that let tourists help protect the country's rhinos and elephants.
From Senegal to Ethiopia and beyond, record levels of flooding are devastating the African Sahel region, with the UN warning that the situation could worsen throughout September.
The by-products and waste-streams of agricultural processes could have a role to play in the generation of energy.
From imposing the first nationwide lockdown in Africa to enlisting robots in its fight against Covid-19, Rwanda has managed to keep its death rate low. CNBC's Timothyna Duncan explores how these measures have helped slow the spread of the coronavirus.
As many African nations have emerged from strict lockdown measures over the month of July, coronavirus cases have accelerated across the continent, casting doubt over the prospect of an imminent economic recovery.
In Zimbabwe, Africa, the Muonde Trust is working with farmers to develop crops and ideas.
Despite offering some of the world's highest-yielding government bonds, investment in Africa has been limited by a presumption of risk from international investors, a situation experts have said is rooted in bias.
With security forces having seized control of economic and financial policy at a time of shrinking GDP and skyrocketing inflation, Zimbabwe is facing its worst crisis in more than a decade.
Alphabet's Loon said its balloon-powered internet service will initially cover 50,000 square kilometers in western and central parts of Kenya. It aims to take a fleet of 35 balloons to the skies above eastern Africa "in the coming weeks." The news represents a significant milestone after years of publicity about the Alphabet-owned venture.
The coronavirus pandemic has reignited a conversation about debt relief to certain African nations as they look to fend off the kind of mass-scale spread seen in the U.S. and Europe.
Tanzanian miner Saniniu Laizer has become a millionaire overnight by selling two Tanzanite gemstones — the largest ever found in the country — for 7.7 billion Tanzanian shillings ($3.4 million), according to multiple media reports.
Libya's National Oil Corporation has declared force majeure on exports from its largest oil field Tuesday, after a militia group shut it down just days after it resumed production following a six-month blockade.
US-Nigerian fintech company Flutterwave has created an e-commerce platform for small African businesses to set up online, to help them function during coronavirus lockdowns.
The projections are contained in a new WHO Africa study based on assumptions that no containment measures are put in place, which has fortunately not been the case, WHO Africa head Matshidiso Moeti told reporters in a teleconference.
Simon Quijano-Evans, chief economist at Gemcorp, discusses emerging markets.
As the coronavirus pandemic halts travel to Africa, poachers are encroaching on land and killing rhinos in tourism hot spots now devoid of visitors and safari guides.
Famines of "biblical proportions" are becoming a serious risk as the coronavirus crisis threatens to double the number of people nearing starvation, a U.N. body has warned.
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