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Batoka Gorge Dam Project Could Flounder in the Face of Climate Change

Batoka Gorge Dam Project Could Flounder in the Face of Climate Change

Zimbabwe’s planned Batoka Gorge power project on the Zambezi River is expected to generate 2,400 megawatts (MW) of electricity, upward from an initial 1,600 MW, but the worsening power cuts that are being blamed on low water levels have renewed concerns about the effects of climate change on mega dams. In the past two months, […]

Kenyan Youths Renounce Crime to Protect Forests

Kenyan Youths Renounce Crime to Protect Forests

Groups of reformed youths who once sold drugs and stole from their neighbours are helping protect trees in rural central Kenya from illegal loggers. The young adults, whose previous activities were a source of community tension, now report suspicious logging to village authorities. They are also contributing to an effort to boost Kenya’s forest cover […]

Bad Weather – UN Launches Urgent Appeal for Relief Aid to Saharawi Refugees

Bad Weather – UN Launches Urgent Appeal for Relief Aid to Saharawi Refugees

United Nations office in Algeria on Thursday urged the international community to take the appropriate actions to meet the urgent needs of Saharawi refugees, hit by the bad weather that ravaged recently the five refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria’s south-west). “Following the heavy rain in the country’s southwest that caused huge damage in the five […]

30,000 People in Sub-Saharan Africa Die of Snake Bites – MSF

30,000 People in Sub-Saharan Africa Die of Snake Bites – MSF

30,000 people die annually of snakebites in Sub-Saharan Africa with a further 8,000 people undergoing amputations, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Monday. The humanitarian organization said the number of victims is likely to rise as existing stockpiles of one of the most effective anti-venoms for sub-Saharan Africa are due to expire in June 2016. […]

Masvingo Set to Ease Lake Mutirikwi Pollution Woes

Masvingo Set to Ease Lake Mutirikwi Pollution Woes

Masvingo City Council has completed a $500 000 dedicated power line project to provide uninterrupted electricity supply at its sewer pump stations and treatment plant to reduce rampant pollution in Lake Mutirikwi. The country’s oldest town draws its water from Late Mutirikwi where pollution has reached unprecedented levels owing to incessant discharge of raw sewage […]

Egypt Closes Seaports Due to Sandstorm

Egypt Closes Seaports Due to Sandstorm

Egypt closed four seaports in Suez due to bad weather on Wednesday, the Red Sea Ports Authority spokesman told state-owned news agency MENA. Sandstorms have reduced visibility to less than 15,000 meters. The closed ports are usually used for transferring containers, goods, petroleum products and passengers. The ports will be reopened as soon as the […]

Have Oil Companies Learnt Anything From the Niger Delta Crisis?

Have Oil Companies Learnt Anything From the Niger Delta Crisis?

Over the past decade, oil and gas exploration operations have multiplied across sub-Saharan Africa, often in remote areas far from political and commercial capitals. Wooed by surging prices in global markets, at least 90% of African countries now explore for oil and gas. Until recently, when oil and gas prices remained high, foreign investors were […]

Sea Fever – Swaziland’s Quest for Maritime Power

Sea Fever – Swaziland’s Quest for Maritime Power

King Canute famously tried to order the waves to retreat. Now Swaziland’s King Mswati proposes to go one better, by ordering them to advance. Last month his Minister of Commerce, Industry and Trade Gideon Dlamini lent his government’s full support to a project announced by a business consortium to construct a seaport. ‘At government level, […]

Maverick Elephant Causes Mayhem At Lunch Table in Zimbabwe: Video

Maverick Elephant Causes Mayhem At Lunch Table in Zimbabwe: Video

A video has emerged of an elephant causing mayhem at the alfresco luncheon table of guests at a luxury camp in Zimbabwe’s famed Mana Pools National Park. Two male diners appear to be slightly nervous as they sit with their backs turned to the giant mammal, who searches the grassy floor with his trunk just […]

How to Keep a Girl From Skipping School, Marrying? Give Her a Toilet

How to Keep a Girl From Skipping School, Marrying? Give Her a Toilet

When 15-year-old Mellan Chansa started menstruating, her biggest fears while venturing into the bush to change her sanitary towel were snakes and peeping boys. She had no choice but to risk encountering both, since her school in Bunda Chunsu village, northern Zambia, had no proper toilets, forcing Chansa and her classmates to use the surrounding […]

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