As urban areas around the capital expand, local government councils are formalizing land ownership, often at the expense of traditional land distribution systems.Darlington Mutakura struggled with the ...

Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos ...

Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel installations to bring reliable electricity to remote ...

Rural women are being left behind in Africa’s electric vehicle revolution. But one company thinks it has the answer.

A Pretoria advocate has shared a video of his impressive modern home built in Makapanstad Village, showing how he maintains connections to his rural roots.

Tech Now reporter Joe Tidy visits the Zengamina Mini Hydro Plant in Zambia, run by a cryptocurrency company who is planning ...

WAUKEE, Iowa — Families partake in a lesson on West African village drumming at the Waukee library for Cookies and CultureALL. Dozens of people attended the session where sounds of West African ...

Raised by the Village follows eight urban families who need help with a teenager veering-off-the-rails and take action by having their child experience life in a rural village and all that comes ...

In 2022, the Ugandan government launched a rural poverty alleviation programme called the Parish Development Model (PDM). PDM ...

Ty Batchelor and his wife, Sally, of Decatur, were about to adopt two boys from the east African country of Uganda a few years back. Local missionaries bring faith, hope to African village ...

Maseru, Lesotho — President Trump in March described Lesotho as a place "nobody has ever heard of," and then this week he hit the tiny African kingdom ... with rural areas being particularly ...

where a now-shuttered Hausa-language service that Jibrin worked for served tens of millions in Africa’s most populous country. The radio broadcasts to Hausa speakers across rural Ghana ...