The 22-year-old athlete talks to AfricanLoft about the journey and life after the Olympics.

Do you know a communal cooker is turning rubbish into fuel to feed residents of one of Africa’s biggest slums — Kibera — on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya? Afrigadget the full gist on the communal stove and oven.
The garbage-burning oven communal oven is a pilot project designed to clean up Kenya’s slums while preserving [...]

Two developments over the weekend signal hope in ending the devastating humanitarian and political crisis that has engulfed the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past weeks. The human suffering might end sooner than any of us had expected.
First there was the historic Kigali Summit of the two Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Rwanda’s Rosemary [...]

The World Bank and its partners have awarded more than US$4 million dollars to over 20 innovative agricultural projects from around the globe. The funding was provided through Development Marketplace - a competitive grant program that identifies and funds innovative, early-stage development projects with high potential for impact and replication.
Photo above shows William Kisaalita (Uganda) [...]

My name is Titus Kolongei, and I work as a health information officer with the Division of Vaccines and Immunization, formerly KEPI (the Kenya Expanded Programme on Immunizations). My work entails collecting and analyzing health data, and submitting and sharing information with various stakeholders.
It used to be that much of this work was done on [...]

The Ibrahim Prize, set up by Sudanese businessman Mo Ibrahim, is the most valuable individual prize in the world. Mr Mogae, whose second term of office ended in April, was praised for tackling HIV and AIDS and for diversifying the economy of Botswana.

UK-based millionaire pledges to fight poverty in Africa by mentoring young entrepreneurs.

British entrepreneur, Alexander Amosu, who made his fortune in mobile ring tones to dedicate his time mentoring young entrepreneurs in Nigeria in a bid to help the continent fight poverty.
British entrepreneur, Alexander Amosu, who made his fortune selling mobile ring tones is to dedicate his time mentoring young entrepreneurs in Nigeria in a bid to [...]

You might not care much if I started blabbing about the most expensive cellphone in the world. But you may be more interested if I mentioned that Alexander Amosu, a UK-based Nigerian owns the business that makes those phones.
I first heard of Alexander Amosu watching Dragons’ Den, a TV business reality show while holidaying [...]

Imagine the task of delivering temperature-sensitive vaccines in a country twice the size of California, depending on only dirt roads to reach the remote villages in need. In a developing nation such as Mozambique, VillageReach makes all the difference for children, women and men living in far-flung villages.