Nita Bhalla covers disasters and conflicts, development, womens rights, climate change and governance.
The UN is calling for action to address the housing crisis, including investing in affordable housing, improving urban planning and addressing the root causes of homelessness.
Female 'techpreneurs' are taking their place in Africa's male-dominated fintech boom, but gender bias makes it harder for them to grow their businesses.
New technology in African agriculture can make smallholders' jobs much easier. Apps like HelloTractor and DigiFarm give farmers access to better machinery.
Each year, plant diseases cost the global economy over $220 billion, and invasive insects cost at least $70 billion. Climate change is making it worse.
Africa's rainforests are more resilient as carbon sinks that slow climate change than those in the Amazon, even when exposed to high temperatures, a study finds.
According to a report by Christian Aid, climate change is affecting tea production in Kenya, which is the biggest global supplier of black tea.
One in two people have lower earnings due to the pandemic and people in lower income countries were affected the most, according to a global poll.
The COVID-19 pandemic has weakened Africa's already fragile health services raising concerns over excess deaths from other diseases, including malaria and tuberculosis.
From January to August, massive desert locust swarms swept across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, ravaging crops and decimating pasture in the worst outbreak in decades.
From rape and sexual exploitation to child marriage and early pregnancy, COVID-19 has unleashed a myriad of "shadow pandemics" on girls across Africa, say child rights groups
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on the Maasai, as without international tourists they're struggling to generate sufficient income.
As COVID-19 halts nature-based tourism worldwide, employees and their communities are struggling to stay afloat - and could even become prey to criminal networks.
Some of the swarms are up to 40 km by 60 km and have devoured thousands of hectares of crops, but could smart dones be the solution?
High-tech solar pumps record real-time data such as energy usage and pump speed in each location, which is used to calculate groundwater extraction rates and levels
This Kenya-based developer wants to make their games more than just a bit of fun - mixing in messages on the importance of the climate, conservation and culture.
