Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa’s Economic Outlook 2025: Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Policy for Sustainable Recovery

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 …

Mite to the rescue

A NEW predatory mite has proved to be a boon for Africa's cassava (a root crop) fields. Recently, scientists from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in lbadan, Nigeria, announced that the battle against the green spider mite, a cassava-destroying pest, had been won two years after a predator …

Fungal weapon

SCIENTISTS have successfully tested a biological pesticide for the first time on grasshoppers and locusts which ravage crops across Africa. They have developed sprays containing fungal spores which are as effective as synthetic pesticides and harmless for beneficial insects. Researchers from Benin, Niger and Britain spent the past seven years …

All that is bad...

OTULA OWUOR NAIROBI the fear that deadly European products and wastes easily end up in Africa was again confirmed when Kenyan customs and health authorities impounded at least 3.2 tonnes of suspected British 'madcow beef' being dumped into the country. The importation of the beef suspected to carry a transmissible …

Rainmaker

Droughts in west Africa over the past 20 years may have been caused by the destruction of rainforests in countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, and further deforestation in the region "could cause complete collapse of the west African monsoon', says Xinyu Zheng of the Centre for Global …

NILE STATES

All African countries through which the water of the river Nile flows, can hope to coordinate sharing of one of Africa's greatest resources. The 10 nations - Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Zaire, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Burundi and Tanzania - recently appeared to put aside political differences at Cairo, Egypt, in …

One long yarn?

THE largescale destruction of west Africa's tropical forests by farmers has been projected as a well-known environmental scandal. But recently, two British scientists have turned the controversy on its head by suggesting that almost half of the tropical forests that are said to have been destroyed by logging and farming …

Western Africa

At least 217 people have succumbed to spinal meningitis over the past two months in Togo, Burkina Faso and Ghana, according to a recent World Health Organization (who) report. who said in a statement that at least 1,571 people have been affected by the epidemic, adding that the figure was …

Light from an area of darkness

scientists in developed countries are trying expensive combinations of drugs to prolong the lives of those infected with aids. But something quite different is going on in Africa, where aids has taken a far greater toll. Experts are finding new hope in an old warhorse: the common antibiotic. Antibiotics cannot …

Blitzkrieg against polio

Efforts to vaccinate children in eastern Africa against polio have been so successful that the region is expected to be polio-free by 2000, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Altanta, US. The incidence of polio in east Africa dropped by 91 per cent between 1988 and …

Pact to protect

the urge to protect and conserve shared waters, the ecosystem and natural resources within a sub-African region, recently propelled five west-central African nations to enter into a marine pollution pact. The nations involved in the new joint initiative, which include Nigeria, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Benin and Ghana, tagged the venture, …

CENTRAL AFRICA

The beleaguered people of Central Africa are in for more trouble. The Food and Agricultural Organization ( fao ) has warned that the strife-torn countries in this region will have to increase their food production up to sevenfold by the year 2050 to feed its people. Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi …

Africa awake

it is ironical that the degree of environmental degradation is yet unmeasured in many countries. This is despite the fact that with just a few years to go for this millennium's end, issues on environment have apparently constituted a particularly relevant agenda in the world. The latter development, undoubtedly, is …

CENTRAL AFRICA

A long term plan for the protection of crops against civil unrest and drought is being drawn up by 12 African countries. Stocks of seeds will be stored by each country to fill up those of a neighbour struck by disaster. The directors of agricultural research of these nations have …

Manifest munificence

Africa apparently has become the new-found interest for Japs, who are quietly targeting their overseas development assistance (ODA) towards helping African nations create a strong base for science and technology. In Kenya, for instance, they have collaborated with the government to establish the Kenya Medical Research Institute, the Kenya Forestry …

Perched atop an abyss

the world's second largest freshwater lake is in dire straits. Africa's Lake Victoria, the source of the mighty Nile river, has been beset by innumerable ecological irritants, which threaten to jeopardise the economic well being of the locals of the region. The list of problems haunting the lake - which …

CONGO

Thousands of Africans fall prey to meningitis every year. A major initiative was launched this week by the World Health Organization ( who ) to control the recurring cycle of cerebrospinal meningitis epidemics in Africa and reduce their devastating consequences. Since the beginning of this year, more than 140,000 cases …

Regional differences in worldwide emissions of mercury to the atmosphere

Annual emissions of anthropogenic Hg to the atmosphere in different regions of the world during the last decade show an interesting dichotomy: the emissions in the developed countries increased at the rate of about 4.5–5.5% yr−1 up to 1989 and have since remained nearly constant, while in developing countries the …

The Indian way for Africa?

african nations could possibly find some avenue out of the endless series of droughts, under-production of food and resultant civil wars, if they manage to emulate India by urgently acquiring and utilising appropriate food technologies to boost production, preservation, packaging and distribution of local food stuff. This conclusion was reached …

SUB SAHARAN AFRICA

Thousands of Africans fall prey to malaria every year. But a recent study shows that a Chinese herbal medicine could do wonders for treating cerebral malaria. The medicine called artemether can cure the patient more quickly and with fewer side effects. Earlier, malaria used to be treated with quinine which …

Tile tales

Low-cost housing has remained on the agenda of policy makers for long now. Various options have been tried for building a dream house that would not only be affordable to the multitudes but will also retain an aesthetic appeal. The innovative tile built recently by the research team led by …

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