Zambian Farmers Trying Weather-Based Insurance
FRIDAY PHIRI/INTER PRESS SERVICE
Frequent extreme weather and climate shifts challenge already vulnerable groups such as smallholder farmers. Between 2004 and 2014, farmers are said to have endured the brunt of the $100 billion cost of…
Students Learn Faster in Their Native Languages
WORLD BANK
On a typical morning in elementary schools across Uganda, children can be heard chanting letters of the English alphabet, each letter assigned to a common item found around the home, followed by its vernacular word to help…
Nigeria Invests in Sugar Industry
NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA
The largest manufacturing conglomerate in West Africa wants to create 15,000 jobs by launching a sugar industry in Nigeria’s Niger State.
The Dangote Group, headed by billionaire Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has signed…
The Dark Star of the Enlightenment
ADF STAFF
In 1827, Russia’s greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin, began his first work of prose, a historical novel titled The Moor of Peter the Great. It was based on the life of his African-born great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal,…
Where Am I?
If erected as intended, this structure would have stood 137 feet tall and weighed 1,168 tons.
Quarrymen are thought to have abandoned this project 3,500 years ago when cracks were found in its sides.
The granite quarry has a canal…
Nigeria Confronts Boko Haram
Tommy Victor Udoh | Nigerian Defense Space Agency
Since 2009, the extremist group Boko Haram has killed 20,000 people in Nigeria and displaced 2.3 million more. The group, which has pledged its support to ISIS, has used social media to…
Training Boosts Female Peacekeepers’ Skills
UNITED NATIONS SUPPORT OFFICE IN SOMALIA
In a unique event, 39 female military and signals personnel from 17 countries took a two-week course on information and communications technology. The course was held at the United Nations Signals…
Viewpoint
U.S. AFRICA COMMAND STAFF
The future of warfare and peacekeeping is all about finding smarter, more precise and more effective ways to use military might. Technology will play a major role in this. Tech tools that are new today will…
Peacekeepers Must Earn Trust, Rise to Challenges
As we mark International Peacekeepers’ Day, you must rededicate yourselves to your declared professional mission and values as encapsulated in our Code of Conduct. You need to ensure that you consistently strive to deserve the trust…
Nigeria Exchanges Prisoners for 82 Chibok Girls
REUTERS
Boko Haram militants in May 2017 released 82 schoolgirls who had been kidnapped from the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok.
The terrorist group, which kidnapped about 270 girls in April 2014, has killed 20,000 people and…