Dahir’s brother died of hunger. Now two of his sisters are fighting sickness and malnutrition. The BBC’s Andrew Harding returns to Baidoa to revisit a family forced to flee Somalia’s worst drought in 40 years, as authorities urge the international community to recognise the crisis as a famine. Warning : This article contains images some…
There’s growing concern that the Just Energy Transition Partnership could serve as a cover for a pivot back to gas. Sisilia Nurmala Dewi 350.org Interim Asia Managing Director Soaring energy prices in Europe brought on by Russia’s war in Ukraine have given a renewed thrust to fossil fuel projects in Asia and Africa, particularly those involving…
Fighting in eastern DRC continued on Monday between government forces and the M23 rebels near the strategic city of Goma in North Kivu province. Former Kenyan president and EAC mediator Uhuru Kenyatta arrived in Kinshasa on Sunday for peace talks set to take place on November 21st. “The message that we have today is that all groups who currently bear arms should lay those arms…
The governing African National Congress (ANC) has stuck to its guns about the controversial National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme and extending social security in South Africa, despite the pushback against these measures. Delivering closing remarks at the ANC’s national executive committee meeting on Sunday (13 November), party president Cyril Ramaphosa said that the ANC would…
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) has published its 2022 Infrastructure Report Card, painting a bleak picture of the state of roads, rail, water and other infrastructure in the country. SAICE has been publishing the report since 2006 as a guide for analysts, educators, policymakers and the general public to understand the status…
The Ethiopian military and Tigrayan rebels have agreed to allow immediate, unhindered aid deliveries to the Tigray region, where millions of people desperately need food and medicines. Top commanders from both sides signed a deal in Nairobi, Kenya, to implement the cessation of hostilities agreed on 2 November. A joint body is to oversee disarmament…
By Shingai NyokaBBC News, Zimbabwe Tinashe Farawo had the grim task of delivering the mutilated body of a 30-year-old farmer who had been trampled to death by an elephant in northern Zimbabwe to his distraught family. It is something that Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) rangers have to do all too frequently as…
The world must factor in the losses women disproportionately suffer, from education to security, due to climate change. Sophie Rigg Senior Climate and Resilience Adviser, ActionAid UK This has been a year of climate catastrophes for every corner of the globe. From floods in Pakistan and Nigeria to the worst droughts on record across the Horn of Africa,…
The Community of East African States (EAC) announced on Sunday that the next set of peace talks on situation in eastern DRC will take place in Kenya on November 21st. The announcement coincided with more fighting on Sunday near Goma between government forces and the M23 rebels. The former Tutsi rebels took up arms in 2021 and have made advances towards the North Kivu…
In Tunisia, the first floating solar station on a lake next to a Tunis industrial park has started to operate. The expectation is that the 200-kilowatt project from a French renewables company, Qair, can be a prototype for bigger projects nationwide. “When we started at the time, it was the first project in Africa for a floating solar power plant,…