New research has found that rural Zambians are much more likely to adopt solar power if they see it working for their neighbours.

A woman scoops water from a hole she has dug in a dried-up riverbed in Lusitu, Zambia on September 18, 2024 [Themba Hadebe/AP] As discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku ...

Bridges to Prosperity is using AI to map rural communities and waterways. Its two AI programs help identify locations that ...

As more women turn to the fishing trade as a means for survival, many are being forced into exploitative “sex-for-fish” arrangements – a troubling trend exacerbated by the sudden withdrawal of foreign ...

An initiative in Zambia is showing that a profit-seeking company can help rural farmers battling extreme weather breed chickens that lay more eggs. Village chickens in Petauke, Zambia.Credit ...

Tech Now reporter Joe Tidy visits the Zengamina Mini Hydro Plant in Zambia, run by a cryptocurrency company who is planning to roll out mini-power plants to rural villages in Zambia and across Africa.

In Zambia, Mwale’s village of Chitandika in the Chipangali district got its mini-grid in 2019. The country has since embarked on a plan to bring power to 1,000 rural communities over the next ...

I know it's going to be the poor family in rural Zambia whose baby gets malaria and they won't have access to antimalarials. It breaks my heart." Sponsor Message "But," he continued, "I also have ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) GONZALES: I know it's going to be the poor family in rural Zambia whose baby gets malaria, and they won't have access to antimalarials. It breaks my heart.

A grandmother in rural Zambia has become a style icon and internet sensation - after agreeing to play dress-up and swapping outfits with her fashionista granddaughter. Margret Chola, who is in her ...

Zambia could tap into solar power to light up its rural areas, but this potential has yet to be exploited. So far, only 3.23% of its installed electricity generation capacity is solar based.