Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika has declared a state of national disaster on 13 April. The country has been hit by a dreadful drought, which has been affecting Southern Africa for over a year. “According to our estimates, 2016 total maize production will drop by 12% compared to the previous year,” said the head of state. This
Ethiopian forces have launched a counter offensive aimed at freeing over 100 women and children that had been kidnapped in a raid in the Gambella Regional State, Ethiopia, on the border with South Sudan. According to Addis Ababa’s governmental sources, the “heavily armed group” – coming from the neighbouring country – also killed 200 people.
Yet another boat tragedy occurred in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coasts of Egypt. Four boats carrying migrants capsized during their attempt of reaching Italy’s coasts. The first European news agency to spread the news was the Daily Mail, UK newspaper who quoted BBC Arabic. LE #FOTO ANSA Il tragico salvataggio dei migranti https://t.co/FRtH6NgjD2
Nike enjoyed an over twenty year contract with the Kenyan athletics federation but after Chinese company Li-Ning made a competitive offer Nike panicked, fearing it would lose it. It renegotiated the agreement and according to this new deal the US-based company would pay honorariums and one-time 500,000 dollars ‘commitment bonuses’, on top of over one
This is a crucial week for Africa. Six states voted on 20 March, the African Super Sunday according to local press: five countries held presidential and parliamentary elections while one voted on a constitutional referendum. Benin In Benin, Prime Minister Lionel Zinzou and cotton tycoon Patrice Talon face each other in run-off presidential elections, after the first round ended
In Somalia, the first hybrid plant powered by solar and wind energy is now operational. It will supply Somali people with low-cost electricity and cut CO2 emissions.
Dopo decenni di uccisioni lo stato africano, per motivi scientifici, ha vietato la caccia al leopardo per tutto il 2016.
The sunny and tourist-filled beaches of southern Ivory Coast turned into a setting of atrocity and death on the 13th of March. Militants dressed in black and wearing balaclavas opened fire on beachgoers, killing 18 people before being stopped and killed by security forces. Among the victims were 3 members of the special forces and 15
The Kariba Dam lies on the Zambezi River, straddling the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, and is the world’s largest manmade reservoir by capacity. It is aging, raising grave concerns such as the possibility of chemical reactions occurring, as well as seepages and cracks on its wall forming. The dam is also vulnerable to earthquakes
The US army carried out a drone strike over the weekend against an al-Shabab training camp, about 150 kilometres north of the capital Mogadishu. According to the Pentagon, the strike killed 150. Spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told the strike destroyed a training camp where an “imminent large-scale” attack was being planned: “We know they were
