Rural areas worst hit as massive fall in food production causes severe hunger for a quarter of country’s population Global development is supported by Silence Charumbira in Maseru Thu 30 Jan 2020 02.00 ESTLast modified on Thu 30 Jan 2020 07.09 EST Tšepo Molapo gazes into space, worrying about where the next meal will come from. Next to him, his two-year-old granddaughter plays, oblivious of… Read more »
Photojournalist Paddy Dowling travelled to Senegal, a country torn apart by conflict, and discovered a new generation of empowered women living in a rapidly changing sub-Saharan climate Paddy Dowling 6 days ago According to estimates from UN agencies, the conflict in Casamance, Senegal, claimed the lives of over 5,000 people. The Movement of Democratic Forces in Casamance (MFDC) emerged in 1982… Read more »
Among the very worst parasitic diseases is Schistosomiasis, which is caused by the invasion of worms in the human circulatory system. These parasites infect around 200 million people per year; the vast majority of those infected reside in Sub-Saharan Africa. The worms are hatched by snails which inhabit contaminated freshwater ponds and streams. Due to a lack of access to… Read more »
The ground in Central Africa contains acidic soil and the climate is very hot and humid. Archeologists found ancient DNA could not survive these conditions and as a result, restricted DNA knowledge of ancient Africa. Until now. For the first time, researchers are doing an in-depth analysis of the DNA in western Central Africa. Four children were found buried beside… Read more »
Morocco on Wednesday integrated waters off the coast of Western Sahara into its maritime territory, adopting two laws that extend its legal jurisdiction over the disputed former Spanish colony.“These laws aim to update the national legal arsenal” in line with “the full sovereignty of the kingdom over its land and maritime borders,” Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said before parliament in… Read more »
Libya’s internationally recognised government said on Thursday that it had reopened Mitiga, Tripoli’s only functioning airport, following almost a day of closure after rockets were fired towards it. Mitiga, just east of central Tripoli, has repeatedly come under attack in recent months, forcing airport authorities to halt flights for several hours. The eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), led by renegade military… Read more »
The starving lions in a zoo in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, whose photos caused an online outcry earlier this week, are now getting treatment, news agency Reuters reports. A plea from the Sudan Wildlife Research Centre (SWRC), and an online campaign, have resulted in help arriving for the malnourished lions, it says. One of the lions died earlier this week…. Read more »
At least 19 people were killed and dozens wounded in an attack in the disputed Abyei region on the Sudan-South Sudan border, according to UN peacekeepers, although a local official gave a higher toll. Suspected nomadic Misseriya herders from Sudan attacked the Dinka village of Kolom, about nine kilometres (5.5 miles) northwest of Abyei on Wednesday, the United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA), said in… Read more »
This is the first time researchers have done an in-depth analysis of ancient DNA from western Central Africa. The rock shelter at Shum Laka in Cameroon. Surprisingly, the ancient people who lived at this rock shelter are not related to the people in the region today.(Image: © Photo by Pierre de Maret, January 1994) During the Stone Age in what… Read more »
Egypt and Ethiopia have struck a preliminary deal to end a row over the construction of a giant dam on the Nile, potentially averting a war between two of Africa’s biggest military powers. Following talks in Washington brokered by the US government, Egypt agreed in principle to drop its opposition to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam after receiving assurances that… Read more »