U.S. President Donald Trump has expanded the number of refugee places available for white South Africans, saying there have ...

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Rwanda is using a new approach known as environmental DNA technology to detect species like the endangered mountain gorilla using genetic material left in soil and water. Those with the project say ...

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Everyone has an accent, but how do the ones we have today relate to those of our ancient ancestors and those we had in ...

Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a psycholinguist now shows that the roots of this multilingualism can be found in infancy: In ...

In celebration of Africa Day on May 25, Facebook has launched the sixth edition of its pan-African campaign, ‘Made by Africa, loved by the world: Where ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced 23 billion euros ($27bn) of investment during the Africa Forward summit in Kenya. Macron said on Monday that Africa and France had a “partnership of ...

More recently, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger moved French to the background and made local languages like Hausa and Bambara official. Rwanda switched from French to English to better connect with the ...

This post is part of Global Voices’ April 2026 Spotlight series, “Human perspectives on AI.” This series will offer insight into how AI is being used in global majority countries, how its use and ...