VIDEO: Turning human waste into cooking fuel

New Ebola infections have fallen in Liberia, but it still has the problem of what to do with huge quantities of potentially infectious human waste.

Three Nigerian students hope their technology can stop thousands of deaths from charcoal cooking.

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Cambridge University students use human waste to produce energy in Tanzania
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Students from the University of Cambridge and Ardhi University have introduced the first ever biogas-producing simplified sewerage system in the world to Tanzania. The students, all volunteers from the student-led Cambridge Development Initiative and ...

Meet the Senegalese artist, Amadou Fatoumata Ba, who uses old tyres as raw material for his sculptures.

It is nearly four years since the militant group al-Shabab was driven out of the Somali capital, Mogadishu and it has lost much of the territory it once controlled.

Today is World Toilet Day… Cheers! The banner ‘Toilets save lives’ might sound mundane, far-fetched... Or, at best: a smart-alecky trader’s way of drawing attention to toilet-related ware be fobbed off upon unwary prospective customers…! 

It is not only political and economic upheaval that forces many people to try and make the dangerous journey from Africa to Europe.

The World Health Organization officials says there has been a 'turning point' in the Ebola crisis, as cases fall in the three affected countries.

Entrepreneurs are trying to find ways to collect rubbish in Mali's capital city Bamako but they have nowhere to process it.