This publication looks at how sharing technological infrastructure can support gender equality and serve the broad betterment of mining communities. It illustrates how mining companies in South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are sharing technological infrastructure with local communities and how partners are collaborating in Peru …
Independent renewable power producer, GreenWish Partners, has announced a collaboration that will enable it to supply clean power for Orange’s network of telecommunication towers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Through the alliance, the renewables company and its operational partner Sagemcom, will deploy hybrid solar power generation systems that …
At least 200 people have been killed in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a landslide swept through a fishing village on the banks of Lake Albert in Ituri province, officials said. Abdallah Pene Mbaka, governor of Ituri province, told AP news agency on Saturday that the estimate is based …
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Forty people have been killed in a landslide in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Pacifique Keta, the vice governor of Ituri province, said on Thursday. Seismic and volcanic activity have been responsible for a number of landslides in the region in recent years.
Three rangers have been killed and another is missing after an attack by violent militia in Virunga national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, bringing the number of fatalities in the park this year to eight. The park rangers, Charles Paluku Syaira, Jonas Paluku Malyani and Pacifique Musubao …
Worsened by Poor Water Infrastructure New DRC Cholera Outbreak Claims Mostly Children KANYARUCHINYA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - In the absence of rain, a cholera outbreak has already claimed 17 lives here. The village of Kanyaruchinya lies 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Goma, the capital of DRC's North Kivu …
The Ugandan energy minister, Irene Muloni, has signed a deal that will require the Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) to export power to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the next three years. Muloni revealed this while speaking at the launch of the ISO certification of UEGCL in …
Africa’s humanitarian crises have continued to worsen in 2017, said a report released by the United Nations on Wednesday ahead of the World Humanitarian Day. “Twenty million Africans have been displaced from their homes and 44 million are acutely food insecure,” the report stated. It said the population displacement crisis …
Hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo has soared in the last year, leaving 7.7 million people in urgent need of food aid and pushing the country closer to famine than it has been in a decade, food security experts said on Monday. Much of the rise in hunger - …
Considered to be a rare and expensive commodity in markets throughout DRC's North Kivu province, nyama ya pori, or bush meat, is mostly available by special order. Josephine Katindi, 43, says she prepares the rare meat to surprise her husband and six children. "Every single bite of bush meat is …
The man-made crisis in South Sudan has pushed the country back on multiple fronts, hampering agricultural production, disrupting livelihoods and the coping abilities of communities. These are but few of several compelling reasons as to why climate change risks in South Sudan should be a pressing worry at this point …
Fair Trade Jewellery has announced the first export of conflict-free and traceable artisanal gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Canada. The milestone, which saw the export of 238 grams in three gold bars to Canada, comes a month after Partnership Africa Canada announced the Just Gold project had …
Congo's health minister has declared an end to the country's Ebola outbreak. Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga said in a statement Saturday that Congo has officially gone 42 days with no new recorded cases of the deadly virus. The health minister says the outbreak killed four of the eight people …
Only three of Africa’s 54 countries are considered to have low levels of hunger, says a Global Hunger Index update released in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Sunday. According to the report by the African Union and New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), based on data from studies in …
Gabon has signed an $18 million deal with donors to tackle deforestation and cut its carbon emissions by half as part of a wider plan to protect the tropical forests of the Congo Basin. One of the world's most forested countries, Gabon is the second African nation, after the Democratic …
Two separate outbreaks of polio in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have set back global efforts to eradicate the debilitating disease. Two cases in Haut-Lomami province and another two in Maniema were confirmed by the World Health Organisation, which last week said the virus had also come back in …
Hong Kong - Hong Kong launched a landmark bill to ban its ivory trade on Wednesday, describing it as an effort to "eradicate" the illegal poaching of elephants. The southern Chinese city is a major hub for ivory sales and announced in 2016 that it would ban the import and …
Democratic Republic of Congo has suffered two separate outbreaks of polio, a debilitating and potentially deadly disease that the world is trying to eradicate, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Confirmation of the outbreaks in Congo's Haut-Lomami and Maniema provinces came less than a week after the WHO said …
Ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has taken a heavy toll on the country’s women. Shocking levels of sexual violence have given the country a label as the “most dangerous place to be a woman”. Civil strife, along with bushmeat hunting and human encroachment, also threatens …
Malaysian officials say they have seized another illegal shipment of pangolin scales as it passed through Kuala Lampur International Airport (KLIA) late last week. The 288 kilograms of pangolin scales were packed in sacks inside 12 cardboard boxes labeled as oyster shells, according to a report Wednesday by the Malaysia …
Lusaka – The Southern African Development Community is losing an estimated $16-million per month through the rampant smuggling of the Pterocarpus Chrysothrix trees, used for fine timber and medicine mostly in the Far East Asia. This financial loss and threat posed to the slow growing species has prompted Zambian President …
