In February 2025, a waste pit at a copper mine operated by Sino-Metals Leach Zambia collapsed, releasing millions of gallons of highly acidic toxic sludge laced with heavy metals into nearby rivers ...

Africa's renewable energy revolution needs careful management to avoid a toxic waste crisis, to prevent people from burning ...

My full name is Manando, but I’m commonly known as Manny, a name I inherited from my grandmothers’ brother, who was a village headman under the paramount Chief Mpezeni of the Ngoni (a clan of the Zulu ...

As a deaf child growing up in Manhattan, Josh Swiller would often take out his frustration with the hearing world on his little brother. But when he traveled to Zambia to work for the Peace Corps in ...

JOHN Swinney is using a trip to Africa to find out how Scotland’s work there can have a “transformative impact on communities”.