The Ethio-Tigray war started on 4 November 2020. For almost two years, the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea – along with Amhara regional forces and militia – have waged war against Tigray's regional government and society.
Tigray is a tiny (...)
Ghana's most important development problem is arguably the disparity between the north and south of the country. The north is acutely underdeveloped, trailing the south in practically all metrics of development.
Several inequality reports have (...)
In a world first, NASA has crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – is meant to test one potential approach that could prevent an asteroid (...)
The United States may regard itself as a "leader of the free world," but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list.
In its global rankings, the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development (...)
We spend a third of our lives asleep. And a quarter of our time asleep is spent dreaming. So, for the average person alive in 2022, with a life expectancy of around 73, that clocks in at just over six years of dreaming.
Yet, given the central role (...)
Have you ever wondered exactly how many ants live on Earth? Possibly not, but it's certainly a question we've asked ourselves.
Our research published today provides an approximate answer. We conservatively estimate our planet harbours about 20 (...)
"Una vittoria storica" – a historic victory. That's how the website of one of Italy's major newspapers, the Corriere della Sera, reacted to the exit polls released after voting closed in Italy's general election on Sunday night.
With a predicted (...)
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus was announced by Uganda's ministry of health on 21 September 2022. Uganda has had at least six previous episodes of Ebola in 2000 (224 dead), 2007 (37 dead), 2011 (1 dead), two events in 2012 (21 dead) and 2019 (...)
The Woman King is a big-budget Hollywood movie that has been anticipated since 2018, when US star Viola Davis was announced as the lead in the story of the "amazons" of Dahomey. Rising South African star Thuso Mbedu also takes a key role in the (...)
At the end of 2021, South Africa recorded its highest unemployment rate since the dawn of democracy, at 35.3%. The figure has marginally dropped but there is still concern about how the country will tackle this issue. Dori Posel spoke to Trudi (...)
Early reviews of Amazon Prime's The Rings of Power have said that this "rich, gorgeous" eight-episode prequel to Lord of the Rings is "so astounding" it makes HBO's rival fantasy series House of the Dragon "look amateur".
Such soundbites had the (...)
Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman is a new movie coming to Netflix. It is based on Nigeria's most famous play, Death and the King's Horseman, written in 1975 by Nobel Prize-winning author, activist and academic Wole Soyinka. Directed by the late Biyi (...)