Environment

Bulawayo– Agriculture experts have voiced concern over plans to import seed varieties from Malaysia to address the critical shortage of farm inputs in Zimbabwe. They warn that the Malaysian seed may be unsuitable for Zimbabwe’s […]

Dar es Salaam Donor organisations and the Tanzanian government have started making contingency plans following several warnings of an imminent food shortage for some two million people. ”We are still finalising our emergency appeal document […]

Kaduna, Northern Nigeria– At least 80,000 people living in and around the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna have been displaced by flooding following torrential rains on Sunday that forced the Kaduna River to burst its […]

New York– Though protected areas now cover 12 per cent of the earth’s surface, a happy ending is by no means guaranteed, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in a message to delegates gathered […]

Polygamy is fuelling a population explosion in impoverished southern Ethiopia, which in turn compounds the food crisis, according to the US Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS). FEWS said the spiralling population was one of […]

Addis Ababa– Ethiopia on Friday appealed for US $40 million to help fight the devastating crisis which has affected 13.2 million people in the impoverished, drought-stricken country. Simon Mechale, who heads the government’s Disaster Prevention […]

Ouagadougou– The African Development Bank (ADB) said on Wednesday it had agreed to provide Burkina Faso with a package of loans and grants worth US $23.8 million to build more schools and equip them with […]

Addis Ababa– Ethiopia has reached a “major turning point” in tackling its chronic food shortages, the head of the United Nations in the country stated on Monday. Sam Nyambi, who heads the UN’s Development Programme […]