African Styles

Yusuf Zakariya Alkanawi created a new script for the Hausa language after discovering that the original had disappeared following centuries of interaction with Arabic and Latin scripts. The Quranic school student hopes that more Hausa speakers will embrace the new script.

Rudimentary heating systems, often fuelled by wood fire, coal and animal manure, are used by a large majority of households in Africa. Delegates from over 60 countries gathered in Paris for a summit held by the IEA to help tackle this issue.

The director of a prison in Colombia’s capital was killed late Thursday in an armed attack while driving his private vehicle. Retired colonel Elmer Fernandez, the director of La Modelo Prison in Bogota, died after being struck by multiple bullets fired by people on motorcycles.