GENEVA (Reuters) – Health officials in eastern Congo have documented the first relapse in the current Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has so far infected more than 3,300 people and killed more than 2,200 since the middle of last year, making it the second-worst on record. In early… Read more »
As the effects of climate change are becoming more apparent, lesser developed countries are feeling the most impact. More developed countries have the infrastructure and ability to maintain order and continuing supplying goods necessary for survival if challenges present themselves. Unfortunately, lesser developed countries do not have the same ability to overcome challenges without support. Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including… Read more »
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – High-tech solar pumps mapping underground freshwater reservoirs across Africa are collecting data that can help prevent them running dry, the project’s developers said on Tuesday. Manufactured by British social enterprise Futurepump, the solar pumps are being used by thousands of small-scale farmers in 15 African nations, including Kenya and Uganda, as a cleaner, cheaper option… Read more »
GABERONE (Reuters) – Botswana’s government has revoked the licenses of two professional hunters who shot dead a research elephant and then destroyed its collar to try to hide the evidence. In a statement late on Saturday, the environment and tourism ministry said that professional hunters Michael Lee Potter and Kevin Sharp had surrendered their licenses after shooting the elephant at… Read more »
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean authorities arrested the wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on charges of money laundering, fraud and violating exchange control regulations, the country’s anti Corruption Commission (ZACC) said on Sunday. Marry Mubaiwa was arrested on Saturday evening and will likely appear in court on Monday, ZACC spokesman John Makamure said. He declined to give further details. Mubaiwa… Read more »
In 1994, one of the deadliest genocides in history began that would carry on for the next several years. The Rwandan Genocide, which began in 1994, was an ethnic conflict that resulted in millions of deaths and had very little international intervention. In the years following the genocide, international organizations began investigating the atrocity and trying to prevent a similar… Read more »
BANJUL (Reuters) – The genocide case brought against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – the first of its kind initiated since the 1990s – may not have happened at all but for a scheduling conflict. In May last year, Gambia’s foreign minister pulled out at the last minute from the annual conference of the Organization of Islamic… Read more »
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Landslides in Burundi have killed at least 26 people and injured seven, while 10 more people remain missing, the Security Ministry said on Thursday. All the victims were living on a hillside which gave way after heavy rains on Wednesday, a local government official in the northwestern province of Cibitoke told Reuters by phone. “They are still… Read more »
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Uber launched in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital Abidjan on Thursday, part of its expansion into African markets with low levels of car ownership and limited mass transport. The ride-hailing firm is facing competition from Estonia-based Bolt, which takes a smaller cut from drivers and plans to double its service in South Africa. Although Uber, which is also… Read more »
ATHENS (Reuters) – Pirates have kidnapped 19 crew members from a crude oil tanker off Nigeria in an area where acts of piracy are on the rise, an official with the ship’s operator said on Thursday. The loaded vessel, the Nave Constellation, was attacked 77 nautical miles off Bonny Island on Tuesday and 18 Indians and one Turk from the… Read more »