Notwithstanding slower global growth and lingering impacts of recent catastrophic floods, private sector activity, outside the oil sector, has been supported by a relative return to peace, and higher government spending. Nevertheless, the economy is estimated to have contracted by 0.4 percent in FY23/24, reflecting drags from oil production. Supported …
ADDIS ABABA, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the African Union (AU) have launched a project geared towards ending hunger in the Horn of Africa. The project dubbed "Ending Hunger in the Horn of Africa: Moving from Rhetoric to Action," has come in line …
Khartoum — Heavy rains and flash floods in Singa, the capital of Sennar, have destroyed 1,160 houses and damaged another 1,320 homes, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports in its latest weekly bulletin. As part of an initial response, Civil Defence and Sudanese Red Crescent …
More people are on the run than ever before in recorded history, the United Nations said in a report released Monday. They include those fleeing marauders in South Sudan, drug gangs in Central America, and the Islamic State in the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Falluja. While most are displaced …
China has signed a framework agreement with Sudan to build the African nation's first nuclear reactor, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. Xinhua said the deal was signed on Monday during a three-day visit to Sudan by China's top energy official, Nur Bekri. The report did not say …
Over one million people in South Sudan are at risk of famine in the next three months, according to a fresh report by the UN. A World Food Program (WFP) report seen by APA on Monday said at least 5.3 million people, representing more than fifty percent of the South …
In its latest report, the USAID-founded body also warned of excess mortality in a nation hit by war since December 2013, anticipating extreme lack of food in parts of Unity state. About million people have been displaced by the conflict in the young nation, with close to 200,000 living in …
Washington, D.c. — The US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced it is providing nearly $68 million for emergency food assistance, to reach approximately 2.5 million Sudanese as well as refugees from South Sudan and other neighbouring states. In a press statement on Friday, USAID says this assistance will be …
Growing food insecurity is causing more and more South Sudanese to flee into Sudan, the United Nations refugee agency today, urging more funding for clean water, sanitation and health services, food and shelter. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said some 38,000 people have fled north …
Conflict areas in Sudan face an emergency level of food crisis from March until to September, a report by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET) warned. FEWNET’s latest report announced that the situation in rebel-controlled areas in South Kordofan and in the Darfur Marra Mountains is alarming due to …
At least 500 elephants may have been killed during South Sudan’s two-year civil war, including 15 slaughtered in one day last month, the African nation’s wildlife service said. The oil-producing country’s elephants, which numbered 5,000 in a 2012 nationwide survey, are still at heavy risk from poaching, said Major-General Philip …
The famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net) disclosed in a report seen by APA that famine is likely to hit the Sudanese conflict zones by March. The report the food security situation will worsen from crisis stage to an emergency phase in the war areas especially in the troubled …
Conservationists are jubilant after the discovery of a massive group of lions in a remote Ethiopian national park, ending years of sharp decline in their numbers. The University of Oxford said up to 200 lions could be living in Ethiopia's Alatash National Park and an adjacent park in Sudan. Although …
The Administrator of United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Ms Gayle Smith, on Monday announced the U.S. government’s provision of an additional N20 billion ($100m) to Africa’s food security programmes. Smith, who led a U.S. delegation at the ongoing African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, disclosed this …
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Africa's small farmers, more than half of whom buy their seeds from local informal markets, need access to improved seeds that can yield more food and cope with climate change, according to research published on Wednesday. Innovations in food science, including seeds that produce vitamin-rich …
Millions more people globally are facing the threat of severe food and water shortages in early 2016 as droughts and flood devastate crops and strain a humanitarian system already struggling to meet needs, aid agencies warned. The weather disturbances caused by this year's El Niño, described by the United Nations …
Aid agencies have warned that tens of millions of people in Africa, the Caribbean and Asia face severe hunger in the next six months following failed harvests, stunted crops and soaring prices of staple foods. Droughts and floods have occurred across the world as a result of the strongest recorded …
Ministers of water and foreign affairs of Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt on Tuesday (December 29) have reached agreements pertaining to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) following 3-day talks in Khartoum. The Agreement was one step forward towards finalizing and reaching agreement on the nomination of the two consultancy firms …
Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan signed an agreement on Tuesday finalizing the two firms tasked with carrying out studies on the potential impact of Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam on the flow of the Nile, their foreign and water ministers said. The three countries had initially picked French firm BRL and Dutch …
Sadly, however, even sections of the population with access to improved water sources often do not receive safe water while those without access to an improved water source often fetch water from rivers, ponds or open wells. Some buy water from vendors who use trucks to supply water to their …
The Foreign ministers of Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan are locked in a decisive meeting in Khartoum to iron out their technical differences regarding the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the River Nile. The meeting began on Sunday amid tension over media reports suggesting that Ethiopia has started the second …
