Six women on embracing and honouring their African roots through their dress this Eid Left to right: Samirah Abubakar, Kayla Mae Garcia Fernandes, Mariyama Sanyang, Suma Haidarah, Salimat Yewande Bakare and Asma’u Gogo Aremu. Photography for Hyphen by Mehaira Abdelhamid Eid is often dubbed the Muslim Met Gala, with social media flooded with images of…
A UK High Court of Justice has raised concern about the danger of anonymous surrogacy after a Nigerian couple struggled to secure legal parental status for their child due to the lack of identifiable records on the surrogate mother. Anonymous surrogacy arrangements allow for the intended parents and the surrogate to not know each other’s…
Nigeria is looking to become a bigger player in the cocoa bean market (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI) Booming cocoa prices are stirring interest in turning Nigeria into a bigger player in the sector, with hopes of challenging top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana, where crops have been ravaged by climate change and disease. Nigeria has struggled…
China’s rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping the dynamics of global technology and one of the most consequential shifts is taking place beyond the traditional AI power centres of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. China’s AI influence is expanding across the Global South, from Africa to Latin America and Southeast Asia. With affordable AI-powered…
Funds for vital health programs around the world remain frozen and their work has not been able to resume, despite a federal judge’s order that temporarily halted the Trump administration’s dismantling of the government’s main foreign aid agency. Interviews with people working on health initiatives in Africa and Asia found that parents in Kenya whose…
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⇓ More from ICTworks By Wayan Vota on February 20, 2025 A few years ago, MIT, Georgetown, and the GSMA proved that mobile money can lift women out of poverty. Then we learned that mobile broadband Internet access reduces poverty in rural Tanzania and increases household income in Vietnam. Now we have a…
At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people in poor nations died literally gasping for breath, even in hospitals. What they lacked was medical oxygen, which is in short supply in much of the world. On Monday, a panel of experts published a comprehensive report on the shortage. Each year, the report noted,…
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How climate change impacts flight turbulence How climate change is making flight turbulence worse 03:54 The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating after a United Airlines flight experienced “sudden aircraft movement,” leaving dozens of passengers and crew injured, including six people who were hospitalized. United Airlines flight 613 was flying from Lagos, Nigeria to Washington…