Lesotho needs 203.73 million maloti ($14 million) for food aid for almost half a million people. The southern African nation’s government needs money to buy 25,255 tons of grain, Temeki Ts’olo, the
When the Jordanian army went shopping for land in northern Sudan in late 1999, its scouts came across what appeared to be a food-growing paradise. The terrain was vast, flat, and fat with nutrients. The
A black beetle the size of a sesame seed is killing South Africa’s trees, and no one knows how to stop it. After arriving from Southeast Asia about four years ago, the polyphagous shot-hole borer has
When the Jordanian army went shopping for land in northern Sudan in late 1999, its scouts came across what appeared to be a food-growing paradise. The terrain was vast, flat, and fat with nutrients. The
Top Asian finance ministers and central bankers are due to have a summit in northern Thailand this week, and they’ll need pollution masks if they want to avoid breathing toxic air. Wildfires and crop
Mozambique has confirmed 139 cases of cholera in the wake of a tropical cyclone that hit the southern African nation and killed more than 460 people. None of the cases has yet proven fatal, Ussene Isse,
The World Bank will more than double its commitment to climate adaptation and mitigation in Africa over the next five years to $22.5 billion. “This region is particularly vulnerable to increasing floods,
Blood and medicine-filled drones swoop over Lake Victoria, bringing vital care to some of Tanzania’s most remote places. That’s the goal of the state-owned Commission for Science and Technology, or
At least two Kenyan cabinet secretaries are facing arrest for their alleged role in two dam projects through which public funds were misappropriated, the Star reported, citing people it didn’t identify.
Zimbabwe's veterinary department has placed two districts under quarantine and stopped the movement of all cattle in or out after ...
