The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
a medicinal herb easily available in India can increase the resistance to disease and ensure better growth among some of the commonly consumed fish, according to a recent study by scientists at the Delhi University. Rina Chakrabarti and Vasudeva Rao studied the effect of Achyranthes aspera on Catla catla (commonly …
Africa's massive rainforests, second only to the one in Amazon basin, have received a new lease of life. Leaders of seven central African countries recently signed a treaty to protect these forests, spread over more than 200 million hectares in their territories. Poaching, illegal logging and ecological damage is rampant …
A new tax introduced by the newly formed East Africa Customs Union (eacu) will increase the prices of hiv drugs in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, accentuating the sufferings of the most vulnerable people of the region. The eacu has levied a 10 per cent duty on goods imported into the …
The authors analyzed the dynamics of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from household fuel use in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2050. The scenarios included a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, in which fuel consumption and tree-harvesting practices change little except through population growth and urbanization, and large-scale shifts to charcoal- and petroleum-based …
Calling the matter criminal neglect is a gross understatement. The National Institutes of Health (nih), the us government's premier health research agency, has been accused of risking the lives of hundreds of mothers and babies in Uganda by concealing information on flaws in a us- funded study on a drug …
Ghana is a major producer of cocoa in the world and relies heavily on the crop for foreign exchange revenue. However, production declined since the mid-1960s, reaching its lowest level in 1983. Although production has increased consistently since the mid-1980s, it still is less than the level attained in the …
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (cites) took a few steps forward and retracted a whole mile at its 13 th Conference of Parties (co p-13), which concluded in Bangkok on October 14 after 2 weeks of hectic parleys. It set in motion, or sped up, processes to …
Wangari Maathai, Kenya's popular environmental activist who is also the country's deputy environment minister, has won the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting poverty by trying to save Africa's shrinking forests. She is the first African woman to be honoured thus. This is also the first Nobel prize given to an …
This is the kind of crisis African nightmares are made of. Nine countries in the region between the Sahara Desert and the more fertile lands towards the south are reeling under an attack by millions of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria), which devour vegetables, grains and clothing. The infestation would spread …
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (imf) have rejected a proposal by the uk to increase debt relief to Africa for helping it achieve its Millennium Development Goal (mdg) targets. At the annual meeting of the two bodies on October 2, 2004, Gordon Brown, uk's chancellor of the …
environmentalists and non-governmental organisations (ngo) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands are up in arms against a move by the Central Agricultural Research Institute (cari), Port Blair, to introduce a molluscicide targeting the African giant snails (Achatina fulica). They fear that since most pesticides are not host specific, the new molluscicide …
researchers from Germany-based Max Planck Institute for Chemistry have recently found that the Indian Ocean region is adversely affected by nitrogen oxide (nox) pollution from Africa and Southeast Asia during the periods between the summer and winter monsoons. nox can adversely affect atmospheric chemistry because it catalyses the production of …
common concern: A Montana jury ordered ChevronTexaco Corporation to pay us $40.3 million for environmental damage from a gasoline pipeline leak in 1955. The case is of potential concern for energy companies, which under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, or the Superfund law, have been held responsible …
The threat of a polio outbreak looms over west and central Africa. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), an international campaign, issued this warning following the confirmation of one new polio case in Guinea and two in Mali. The disease had been eradicated from both the countries five years ago. …
aids is threatening the traditional agricultural practices of Mozambique, indicates a study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (fao). The finding is alarming, as more than 1.3 million people in the country are suffering from the disease. During the fao research, about 90 men and women from three communities …
