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 [...]

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 [...]

A new report released by the United Nations Foundation, the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development and the Energy and Security Group finds that bioenergy can provide significant economic and environmental opportunities for rural areas in West Africa. The report, “Sustainable Bioenergy Report in UEMOA Member Countries”, released today at a side [...]

To reverse the downward trends in the Shell-shocked Niger-Delta requires addressing the proverbial elephant in the room — the entities befitting from the chaos in the region, whose natural instinct is to maintain the status quo, people whose mindset is closed to the idea of change. These are the entities the Nigerian President and his [...]

Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems.
Nigeria has a band of new Ashoka Fellows, “outstanding individuals who we recognize to have innovative solutions to social problems and the potential to change patterns across society”, according to Ashoka West [...]

The World Bank has announced that it has approved $24 million for a program that will see Rwanda develop her national capacity to provide broadband connectivity.
The money that was cleared through an International Development Association (IDA) financing grant for the Regional Communication Infrastructure Program - Rwanda Project (RCIPRW), is supposed to increase the availability of [...]

A local solar drying business links Ugandan rural farmers with export markets. Fruits of the Nile exports about 120 tonnes/year of high-quality dried banana and pineapple from its factory in Njeru, Uganda. The fresh fruit is prepared and dried in simple locally made solar driers.

Located in Republic of Benin along the western coast of Africa is the Songhai center, a one-of-a kind organization that seeks to create viable socio-economic environments in Africa. The center is able to link agriculture to industry and commerce through an integrated effort that focuses on promoting sustainable social entrepreneurship and building capacity to efficiently harness local resources.

Many years ago, a Dubai Sheikh realized that Dubai’s oil will soon run out, so he put in place measures to build up an economy in that could survive the end of the oil boom. The result is the present day Dubai. What happens to the nations of Africa when their timber, gold, diamond, crude [...]

Project 10100 is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
To help celebrate its 10th birthday, Google is launching an initiative to solicit, and bankroll, fresh ideas that it believes could have broad and beneficial impact on people’s lives.
Called Project 10100 (pronounced “10 to the 100th”), Google’s initiative [...]