Bukola Adebayo

Artificial intelligence and traditional aid are helping farmers like Salihu Ali in northern Nigeria act before their farms are submerged by increasingly regular floods fuelled by climate change.

Ali was warned that floods were coming in 2022 and was provided with cash to prepare his farm in Dasin Hausa, a remote village of cowpea, maize, and rice farmers in Adamawa state.

Mpox is nothing new to Africa yet there is no vaccine available on the continent, exposing rank inequity in global distribution as tens of richer nations inoculate people facing far less risk.

Experts say that inequality - alongside competing health problems and slow regulation - is putting millions of Africans in jeopardy, after scientists found the virus was now mutating fast, leaping from person to person and stealing over borders.

Bola Adeshiyan last ate 16 hours ago and she is hungry. To take her mind off the ache in her stomach, she leaves her tiny one-bedroom flat and walks around the bustling streets of her neighbourhood in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital.

On her return, the 55-year-old drinks a little water and settles down to wait to collect leftover beans and unsold bread on credit from a food vendor later in the day.

The #EndSARS protests in Nigeria, #FeesMustFall protests in South Africa and the #RejectFinanceBill2024 protests in Kenya all have one thing in common - the organising, chanting and marching were led by young people.

In Uganda, youth protesters are staging rallies outside parliament against alleged corruption and human rights abuses by leaders, inspired by similar high-profile protests in Kenya against an unpopular finance bill.

A year after Nigeria ditched the petrol subsidies that powered its economy, renewable energy is on the rise. Meet the dynamic women - from engineers to installers – shaping the country's solar revolution

The world is breaking its promise to end global hunger this decade, the United Nations (U.N.) said on Wednesday, with conflict, climate shocks and economic crises leaving one in five Africans short of food.

Global hunger levels have stayed broadly steady for the past three years, said the U.N. in its wide-ranging report, despite pledges to resolve the problem by 2030.

When the Nigerian government announced plans in April to develop a multilingual AI tool to boost digital inclusion across the West African nation, 28-year-old computer science student Lwasinam Lenham Dilli was thrilled.

Dilli had struggled to scrape datasets from the internet to build a large language model (LLM), used to power AI chatbots, in his native Hausa language as part of his final-year project at university.

A plan to marry off 100 Nigerian girls and young women in a state-sponsored mass wedding has sparked heated debate about child marriage and female education, with last-ditch efforts underway to ban the ceremony.

Nigeria’s women’s minister, who is leading the campaign to shelve Friday's wedding, told Context that she had filed a court injunction to stop it.

Despite her well-honed sales pitch, Aanu Ajayi is often met by scepticism when out selling energy-efficient stoves in the Nigerian city of Lagos - highlighting some of the hurdles Africa faces in switching to climate-friendly cooking.

"I had to do live demos in their kitchens and restaurants before I could sell any of the stoves," Ajayi, 39, told Context as she unpacked the gleaming steel stoves from their boxes, adding that attitudes were slowly changing.

More than two-thirds of workers have been exposed to excessive heat while doing their jobs, according to a new U.N. report, but few countries have taken steps to protect them as climate change makes heatwaves more frequent and intense.

Nearly 19,000 people die every year due to workplace injuries attributed to excessive heat, and an estimated 26.2 million people are living with chronic kidney diseases linked to workplace heat stress, according to this month's report by the U.N.'s International Labour Organization (ILO).