Creating the foundation for transforming the G5 Sahel countries from power fragility to power resilience by establishing sustainable and widespread energy supplies aptly summarises the objectives of 2021 for the Desert to Power (DtP) Initiative. In this second year of the Initiative, the focus of the African Development Bank and …
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of children suffering from life-threatening malnutrition across the Lake Chad Basin - about 800,000 - has soared since last year, and could spiral further as Boko Haram ramps up attacks in the region, an aid agency said on Tuesday. The jihadists’ brutal eight-year …
The Government of Chad, in collaboration with the Coalition for Dialogue in Africa, ECA Capacity Development Division, and the African Minerals Development Center, organized a validation workshop of the revised Mining Policy and Mining Code. The objective of the workshop was to ensure that the reviewing process of key governance …
The emission of greenhouse gases by human activity is set to lead to drought, rising sea levels and flooding in many parts of the world. But in Africa's Sahel region, at the southern edge of the Sahara desert, there could be an upside. The Sahel is the transition region between …
Harare – Zimbabwe has been ranked among the most fragile states in the world - just a few weeks after President Robert Mugabe, 93, insisted that his country was the "most highly developed country in Africa after South Africa," a report shows. At a panel on fragile states at the …
Two million people are teetering on the brink of famine in northeastern Nigeria but efforts to reach some are being thwarted by Boko Haram jihadists, the UN’s food agency said Thursday. More than 20 million people across Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen, are in areas hit by drought and …
Conservationists are celebrating the successful reintroduction of an iconic antelope species, the scimitar-horned oryx, to a portion of its historical range on the edge of the Sahara desert after 14 captive-bred animals were released in a remote region of Chad. Scimitar-horned oryx return to the Sahara nearly two decades after …
The new African Union Commission chairperson has been urged to place the African elephant crisis on the AU’s agenda. Chad, one of the Elephant Protection Initiative founder, ascended to the helm of the AU. The Initiative responded positively after Chad’s Foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat was successfully elected as the …
DAKAR, Feb 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of people in southeastern Chad are at risk of dying from a worsening hepatitis E outbreak which has killed 11 people since September, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. Some 885 people in the Salamat region have been treated …
Ethiopia, Swaziland, Uganda, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Comoros, DRC and Chad have been honoured for their significant progress in the fight against malaria. The eight countries were awarded on Monday by the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) at the 28th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ALMA is an alliance …
A third-stage (infective) larva of Dracunculus medinensis, the causative agent of Guinea worm disease, was recovered from a wild-caught Phrynobatrachus francisci frog in Chad. Although green frogs (Lithobates clamitans) have been experimentally infected with D. medinensis worms, our findings prove that frogs can serve as natural paratenic hosts.
Over the past ten years, both our understanding and awareness of the links between climate change and security have increased tremendously. Today the UN, the EU, the G7 and an increasing number of states have classified climate change as a threat to global and/or national security. However, the links between …
The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) released a report on Tuesday which stated that 69 million children below five years of age are at the risk of dying from "preventable causes" by 2030 if countries fail to take action to improve the health and education scenario for the underprivileged …
This is according to the UN which says that half the residents in the region are facing chronic food insecurity and malnutrition as violence continues to escalate. The fighting is blamed on Boko Haram militants and estimates indicate that 2.4 million people have been forced to flee from their homes …
London — Almost 30 countries around the world are "highly vulnerable" to an Ebola-style epidemic, with Somalia, Chad, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Haiti most at risk, a major charity said on Tuesday. An increasingly mobile global population makes deadly outbreaks more likely, with the emergence of two new diseases a year …
Conservationists and scientists have held talks in Kenya this week to come up with a last ditch plan to save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction. There are only five northern whites left on the planet: three live in a 700-acre enclosure on the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya, …
Chad is prepared to re-auction oil-extraction licenses it has revoked from China National Petroleum Corporation, if the company doesn't pay a fine for alleged environmental violations, the country’s Minister of Planning, Economy and International Cooperation, Kordjé Bedoumra, said in an interview Monday. The dispute between the government of Chad and …
The majority were in Asia, where 19 million were displaced by floods, storms and earthquakes, according to the report from the International Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council. Typhoon Haiyan caused the largest displacement, with 4.1 million people leaving their homes in the Philippines, a million more …
NIGERIANS are now living longer by eight years even as coronary (ischaemic) heart disease, lower respiratory infections (such as pneumonia) and stroke top the list of 20 major causes of premature deaths globally. According to the World Health Statistics 2014 published at the weekend by the World Health Organisation (WHO), …
New Zealand came first in a global index published on Thursday that ranks countries by social and environmental performance rather than economic output in a drive to make social progress a priority for politicians and businesses. The Social Progress Index (SPI) rates 132 countries on more than 50 indicators, including …
The United Nations appealed on Monday for more than $US2 billion ($2.28 billion) to feed and care for a record 20 million people across Africa's Sahel belt, but aid workers said they feared donor fatigue and a weak global recovery may prevent them from reaching the target. Conflicts in Mali, …
