Environment

Addis Ababa, 29 September– A rescue package to slash Ethiopia’s food aid dependency in five years will cost the international community US $3 billion, government officials have said. Deputy Prime Minister Adisu Legese spelt out […]

Nairobi, 26 September– A food security watchdog has warned of a difficult humanitarian situation in Eritrea next year due to the lingering effects of the devastating drought which gripped the country for much of this […]

Johannesburg, 26 September– The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that millions of people in southern Africa will face massive food shortages as early as next month due to significant funding shortfalls. The […]

Addid Ababa, 24 September– Thousands of plant species in Africa are threatened with extinction, leading botanists meeting in Addis Ababa warned on Tuesday. As many as 4,500 of Africa’s rare species of flowering plants – […]

Lagos, 23 September– Oil has been spilling from a broken pipeline in the Niger delta for several days, polluting the farmland, fishing grounds and drinking water of five villages, residents in the affected area said […]

Bangui, 22 September– People in the north of the Central African Republic (CAR) are facing an acute shortage of cereals, exposing children and vulnerable groups to malnutrition, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and […]

Johannesburg– The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Friday that almost 2 million Angolans would receive much needed agricultural emergency assistance ahead of the rainy season. Over the next few weeks ”FAO will […]

Johannesburg– Up to 800,000 people in the tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho could face food shortages as the country’s Disaster Management Authority (DMA) reports an almost complete failure of this year’s winter crop. The country […]