Go into any rural African village and one of the major status symbols is a radio. An exciting soccer game might be playing on a hazy black and white TV set complete with rabbit ears and powered by a ...

In this video, Tone Sommerfelt presents her article 'Politics of shared humanity: On hospitality, equality and the spiritual ...

SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit that started here in San Diego, helping people on the other side of the world, has grown tremendously since its start in 1987. In fact, Village Enterprise is leading the ...

BUSHENYI, Uganda--Laban Rutagumirwa charges his mobile phone with a car battery because his dirt-floor home deep in the remote, banana-covered hills of western Uganda does not have electricity. When ...

Ayuk emphasized, however, that distributed generation and microgrids are not sole solution to Africa's energy poverty, which he described as a complex challenge requiring multifaceted approaches — ...

A Tyler nonprofit is celebrating a major milestone: 10,000 sight-restoring surgeries provided to people in need while sharing ...

In 2012, when Moses Aloo inherited a plot from his grandfather, his neighbourhood in Kisumu, western Kenya, had plenty of farmland. But over the past decade, as Kisumu has grown, Nyamasaria has become ...

GONE are the days when African rural areas were associated with backwardness. With many indigenous food commodities like wild fruits and tubers from rural areas commercialising themselves through ...

Young farmers in Ethiopia, Ghana and Malawi are less likely than older farmers to use improved seeds and fertilizers or receive advice from extension officers. Many governments are concerned about the ...