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 …
globally, there are now 40 million adults and children suffering from aids, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation (who) and the Joint United Nations Programme on hiv/aids called unaids. The epidemic shows no signs of abating
Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, might lose its all-year ice snow by 2015 due to climate changes. This warning was issued by Greenpeace, an international pressure group. "The snow you see now might disappear in 10-20 years,' said Greenpeace campaigner Joris Thijssen. According to him, Kilimanjaro's case was not unique …
After two decades, the rhinoceros is on the comeback trail in Uganda. Two southern white rhinos have arrived at the Entebbe wildlife education centre as part of a project financed by the World Bank to restock the country's national parks. The pachyderm's return to the nation carries forward the steady …
It is unfathomable why a civilisation that has worshipped water as part of its tradition should suffer from its scarcity. Mainly, because people today don't know the cost of the water used, and they seldom try to conserve or collect water where it falls. The fact that 1.5 million tanks …
Benny Peiser, an anthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University has shown through a computer simulation that more than 1,000 fatal impacts in a 100,000-year period. These fatal impacts were mostly airbursts over land. For instance, a 60-meter-wide object blew up above a remote Siberian forest. Other blasts occurred in or …
the issue of access to drugs has shifted from anti aids drugs in Africa to anti anthrax drugs in the us. The us government is contemplating to override the patent on Ciprofloxacin, which is held by the German pharmaceutical company, Bayer and procure generic copies from other sources. This move …
Faced with mounting pressure from local automobile manufacturers, the Nigerian government has decided to ban the import of vehicles more than five-year-old with effect from January 2002. "This decision is aimed at protecting the country from becoming a dumping ground,' said Aisha Ismail, the country's social development and women affairs …
huge dust clouds blowing across the Atlantic Ocean from the Sahara Desert cause red tides in the Gulf of Mexico, reveals a new study. Red tides, which are blooms of toxic algae, kill the gulf's marine life in large quantities. But this can be prevented, indicates the study done by …
Poor management of Nigeria's environment is costing the country around us $5 billion a year in ruined land and lost forests, an ecology expert claims. Muhtari Aminu-Kano, executive director of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (ncf) said that much of the damage resulted from oil and gas extraction in the Niger …
The United Nations Development Programme (undp) is launching a new initiative for conserving Mount Kilimanjaro by involving communities who live around the mountain. "Under the aegis of the project, we will work closely with these communities to ensure that the mountain resources are used in a sustainable manner,' said undp …
Many leatherback turtles recently died while nesting in Guiana. While patrolling, a World Wide Fund for Nature (wwf) team found 12 entangled leatherbacks in a single net. According to wwf , the high mortality rates can be attributed to fishing activities near nesting beaches. "Turtle deaths in Guiana have taken …
In another 20 years, Africa will not have enough to eat, indicates a recent study. The study 2020 Global Food Outlook was conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute, a Washington dc -based organisation. It concludes that without massive investment in infrastructure, Africa might have 49 million malnourished children …
tens of millions of children could face starvation in 20 years time if the governments across the world do not focus on irrigation, education and agricultural research for poor countries, according to a new analysis. The analysis was performed by the world's most complex computer model of the global food …
The view from space of a bright blue Earth is becoming marred by smoke and dust as environmental destruction grows increasingly visible, reported the commander of the International Space Station, astronaut Frank Culbertson. He said that the view had changed considerably since his the space mission in 1990. There is …
It's easier to recognise a face when its owner's race matches our own, is the controversial finding of a new study. An imaging study shows that greater activity in the brain's expert
Dust blown from Africa not only produces striking sunsets in Florida, usa, but also carries with it lethal stowaway bacteria and fungi. The dust plumes begin their trans-Atlantic journey from the topsoil of the Sahara Desert. The dust is transported into the atmosphere and crosses the Atlantic Ocean to reach …
desert dust blown from one part of the world to another can choke rain clouds, cutting rainfall hundreds of kilometres away. This discovery, made with the help of us National Aeronautical and Space Administration ( nasa) satellites, suggests that droughts over arid regions, such as central Africa, are made worse …
it's an old debate. Does it take specimens of the same species separated by time and space to speciate out. In a small west African lake, one fish species seems to be proving it does not. It is evolving into two species more because of different tastes. This fission supports …
An international wildlife smuggler has been sentenced for 71 months by a San Francisco federal court. He has also been directed to pay a fine of US $60,000. Keng Liang
