Nigeria’s population is rising at a significant rate, between 1991 and 2006 it nearly doubled from 88 million to 140 million. If the projections are accurate and the country has the third highest population by 2050, the results are most likely to be disastrous. With this incredible rise in population, their poverty level also increases. India, currently second only slightly… Read more »
Today is World Population Day, an event observed on July 11 every year since 1989 to raise awareness of global population issues. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa by a distance. It is often said that out of every three blacks in the world, one is a Nigerian. According to official post-independence census figures, Nigeria’s population was 56.6… Read more »
People in sub-Saharan Africa are now living longer than ever before. A child born in the region today is expected to live up to 64 years on average. This is a remarkable increase of 11 years since the year 2000, when life expectancy at birth was only 53 years in sub-Saharan Africa. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of… Read more »
Leading scientist hopes drug trials in DRC could lessen the impact of deadly virusAS Ebola could be transformed from a terrifying disease into something that can be managed at home if drug trials in the Democratic Republic of the Congoare successful, a leading scientist believes. Four experimental drugs are starting to be used as part of a groundbreaking trial under extremely… Read more »
Creatures increasingly threatened by demand for body parts and meat, conservationists warn Wildlife conservation groups have criticised plans by Tanzanian authorities to auction 3.5 tonnes of hippo teeth next week. They said the move could increase poaching. Licensed dealers will be able to bid for 12,500 pieces of hippo teeth at the tourism and natural resources ministry in the city of Dar es… Read more »
Medicins Sans Frontieres(MSF) reported that they have treated about 157 women that have been beaten and raped in South Sudan. Medicins Sans Frontieres is also known in English as Doctors without Borders. Since Mid-November there has been a dramatic spike in violence against women in that same area. Most of the women attacked were traveling in between neighboring communities for… Read more »
Because of it’s recent civil war, Liberia has had an energy shortage since 2003 and has been unable to rebuild its power sector thus far. There is a large demand for electricity; unfortunately, this demand cannot be met. The people of Liberia do not have enough energy, so they have started stealing electricity by connecting their own wires to their… Read more »
The decapitated head of a nine year old with albinism, was discovered 20km from his home in Malawi, Africa. This marks the second murder of an albino citizen this year, following the death of a 53 year old woman whose arms had been severed. Along with these murders, there have also been five abductions of albinos in Malawi, despite the… Read more »
Around a large table in a bright room in the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, four members of the Maasai tribe from east Africa are inspecting a small object. It has been carefully placed in front of them by a curator wearing special handling gloves. The Maasai say that it is a bracelet, an orkatar. They talk between themselves,… Read more »
A Libyan official said at least 14 refugees died off the North African nation’s coast while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. Colonel Hisham Aldwaini, a spokesman for Misrata’s security forces, said on Tuesday a wooden boat was found off the Libyan port city with two bodies on board. He added that 12 others had been thrown into… Read more »