A new World Health Organisation report warns that pregnant women’s exposure to electronic waste raises the risk of stillbirth and premature births. Environmental contamination researcher Okunola Alabi spoke to The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade about the problem of electronic waste in Nigeria. How serious is the exposure of women and children to electronic waste in Nigeria ?…
Bringing nature and people together, Elias Libombo mediates between Zimbabwe’s Gonarezhou National Park and local communities. “My Zimbabwe is about rediscovering how our ancestors lived with, not against, the land. They knew the importance of the wild,” says Elias Libombo, the community liaison officer for the Gonarezhou National Park. Gonarezhou is on Zimbabwe’s southeastern border…
Protests which began after former South African President Jacob Zuma handed himself into police to serve a 15-month sentence have descended into days of violence and looting. The BBC has spoken to a few of the people caught in the middle. “We are on fire,” Ian – not his real name – tells the BBC…
Police and security chiefs in South Africa have called on the population to stop riots after more than 100 people were arrested on Tuesday in connection to the looting of a mall. Police charged against people taking part in riots in the Johannesburg township of Daveyton. In recent days, the imprisonment of former President Jacob…
JOHANNESBURG, July 13 (Reuters) – At an emergency COVID-19 ward run by a charity in southern Johannesburg, medics wheel gasping patients to their beds, rush from room to room with oxygen cylinders and pat the back of someone in the grip of a coughing fit. The scenes in the converted community hall are a reminder…
Members of the Amhara Special Force return to the Dansha Mechanized 5th division Military base after fighting against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), in Danasha, Amhara region near a border with Tigray, Ethiopia November 9, 2020. The United States is gravely concerned about reports of hostilities in Ethiopia’s Tigray and condemns any retaliatory attacks against…
Tigrayan forces claimed Tuesday to have launched a new offensive in the conflict-torn northern region of Ethiopia, two weeks after the federal government declared a unilateral ceasefire in the face of rebel advances. A spokesman for the Tigrayan forces told AFP they had seized Alamata, the main town in southern Tigray, after launching the offensive on…
Widespread social unrest that followed the imprisonment of a former president is damaging businesses, key trade routes. Violent protests have dealt a body blow to South Africa’s efforts to rebuild the economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and pose the sternest test yet to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s authority. The widespread looting and social…
The army was called in on Monday to contain the violence in South Africa, on the fourth day of violence initially triggered by the imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma and which has already left at least ten people dead. Incidents broke out on Friday in Zulu country, where Mr Zuma is originally from and…
Another cold front is expected to make landfall in the Western Cape on Monday. The cold conditions are expected to bring flooding, especially to informal settlements. Snow is expected on the province’s highest mountain peaks. Emergency workers are on high alert as another cold front is expected to make landfall in the Western Cape on…