The report provides a detailed analysis of the design and implementation of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) roadmaps aimed at advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Developed as part of the collaboration with the Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) of the European Commission for the development …
Zimbabwe is likely to be the hardest hit country from an outbreak of armyworms that is destroying crops and threatening food security in southern Africa, the United Nations (U.N.) food agency said on Thursday. The U.N's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a statement up to 130,000 hectares of …
If you thought the current drought ravaging many parts of the country was bad enough, then brace yourself for an invasion of the armyworm. Experts have warned that an invasion of the maize destroying armyworm in Southern Africa could spread towards East Africa in the next few months. This comes …
WINDHOEK Namibia (Xinhua) -- Namibia’s environment ministry said Wednesday that the desert lion found dead last month died of anthrax. Famously known as XPL 98, the five-year old lion was found dead but with no signs of poisoning in the Ugab area in Kunene region about 300 kilometers from Windhoek. …
Black rhinos are being driven to extinction as the ‘unprecedented’ high price of rhino horns leads to an explosion of poaching, experts say. Rhinos are slaughtered for their horns to be used in Chinese medicine – with just 5,000 black rhinos left in the wild. Poachers threaten the remaining rhinos …
NAMIBIA has so far dehorned 451 black rhinos at a cost of over N$14,5 million in an effort to discourage poaching in the country. Government has been dehorning rhinos since 2014. The Ministry of Environment and Tourism makes use of experts contracted to dehorn black rhinos in the country's national …
Various parts of the Zambezi region have now also been overrun by the worm infestation which has sown devastation across the northern parts, from Omusati to Kavango East, since late last year. Mathews Mushabati, the chief agricultural extension officer in the region, confirmed the widespread outbreak to The Namibian yesterday, …
ABOUT 7 000 more Namibians are expected to be infected with the HI-virus by the end of the current financial year, which will bring Namibia's total HIV-AIDS infections to 227 000, Erongo health director Jeremiah Nghipundjwa says. He said although there has been a significant drop in cases nationally, new …
Johannesburg: The number of elephants in Africa has dropped by 111,000 in 10 years to just 415,000 today. The 20 per cent drop between 2006 and 2015 is because of a surge in ivory poaching, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said in a report. Swiss-based IUCN is …
DISTRICT forestry officer at Katima Mulilo Dennis Sikabongo said there is a worrisome trend of residents hiring foreigners to harvest mopane trees. Mopane trees are protected in Namibia. Sikabongo last week told The Namibian that residents hire foreigners to harvest the trees illegally in order to sell them, and they …
Legalizing the ivory trade could more quickly make elephants extinct, a study released September 15 suggests. It finds that the demand for ivory is far greater than the amount of ivory that can be harvested sustainably. This contradicts an earlier proposition by ivory trade supporters that a sustainable trade that …
Police in Namibia have recovered 57 elephant tusks and arrested 16 people for poaching since March this year. Namibian Police Deputy Inspector General for Operations James Tjivikua told media Tuesday that 32 elephant carcasses were found during the period, of which 11 were said to have been killed by poachers. …
As talks about a complete ban on both the international and domestic markets heat up, the Swaziland government accuses western NGOs of being ‘armchair preservationists’ Black rhinos, one of the world’s endangered animals, in the north west province of South Africa. The government of Swaziland has called the destruction of …
THREE Zambians and a Namibian, the latter suspected to be a former policeman, were arrested last Friday after poaching a black rhino at the Erindi private game reserve near Omaruru. According to Alexander Steyn, who heads the Omaruru District Watch, a massive operation involving the district watch, game reserve personnel, …
Africa's rare forest elephants which play a key role in replenishing the central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught by ivory poachers because of their slow birth rate, a study published on Wednesday said. The study by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society is …
Imagine that years of drought have forced you to graze your cattle on sparse grass in an open desert landscape, far from permanent settlements. The nearest small shop is 40 kilometres (25 miles away), a journey normally made by donkey. Now imagine your one donkey is being mauled to death …
RESIDENTS of the Okapya village in Oshikuku in the Omusati region have said the mining activity that started in 1995 is damaging the environment and they want the Uukwambi Traditional Authority to intervene. One of the villagers, Coetzee Nambinga said apart from destroying the environment, the sand miners were also …
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some 23 million farmers in drought-hit Southern Africa need urgent help to prepare for the next planting season with only a few weeks left before it begins, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday. FAO said failure to help farmers in time …
Southern African countries have launched an emergency appeal for $2.8bn (£2.1bn) to help feed nearly 40 million people hit by one of the worst regional droughts in 35 years. According to the South African Development Community, which comprises 15 countries, 23 million people require urgent humanitarian assistance and a further …
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tens of thousands of children across southern Africa are being pushed out of school and into early marriage or child labor because of drought and hunger caused by the El Nino weather pattern, charities said on Wednesday. Southern Africa has been hard hit over the …
THE AGRICULTURE ministry has constructed 2 645 ventilated double pit toilets at a cost of N$108 million in various regions of the country since 2014. The agriculture ministry's spokesperson Margaret Kalo confirmed that the improved toilets are part of the ministry's water supply and sanitation national strategy project, adopted in …
