By LIMO TABOI In this second instalment, Limo Taboi explains how farm improvements have lowered costs, improved yields and have been good for forests as demonstrated by farmers in Kenya, amid dry weather, Covid pandemic and disruptions of the Ukraine war. At least four million Kenyans face drought-induced hunger. A drought emergency has been declared,…
Clashes between Congolese armed forces and the M23 rebels have reportedly resumed in the country’s east. Media reports say fresh clashes took place in Rutshuru territory, North Kivu Province, forcing residents to flee their homes. The latest round of fighting erupted a day after President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, agreed on…
Symptoms for Marburg, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, include diarrhoea, fever, nausea and vomiting. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that two people in Ghana who later died had tested positive for the Marburg virus, which causes a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola Tests conducted in Ghana came back positive, but those…
Demonstrations resumed Thursday in Conakry in protest at the arrest of three leaders of an influential political and civil society coalition who have now been charged after previous clashes that injured 17 police officers. The officers were hurt, one seriously, after violent demonstrations Tuesday and Wednesday following the arrests. The clashes which began on Tuesday…
By DAILY MONITOR Tweets by Uganda’s Commander of Land Forces Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba supporting Tigray rebels are his personal opinion, and not the stand of the army, a ministry official has said. In an interview with the BBC’s Focus on Africa on Monday, Brig Felix Kulayigye, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Defence and…
Chinese technology has helped M-Pesa, an electronic mobile payment platform, to maintain smooth operation in Kenya. Launched in 2007, M-Pesa has gained popularity because of a special function that allows users to transfer money and make payments using a feature phone service even when they do not have a smartphone or their phone cannot connect…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Program said in a report Thursday. The UNDP estimates that 51.6 million more people fell into poverty in…
ABIDJAN, July 6 (Reuters) – Mali has started talks that will pave the way for the country to honour all of its missed debt repayments by the end of July following the lifting of economic and financial sanctions on the West African state, three banking sources said on Wednesday. The country also paid a debt on Monday…
South Africa is gripped by a winter of discontent as the country faces its biggest ever power crisis. People are experiencing rolling blackouts of up to six hours a day and are having to face a bitterly cold winter with an erratic and unreliable power supply. A typical day of what the state-run power company…
The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as 828 million in 2021, an increase of about 46 million since 2020 and 150 million since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new United Nations report that provides fresh evidence that the world is moving further away from its…