Mozambique Counts Deadly Cost of Dineo
CASH strapped Mozambique is appealing for funds to curb multiple crisis posed by the destructive Cyclone Dineo. The cyclone, accompanied by winds of 160 kilometers per hour, has dissipated to neighbouring Zimbabwe and South Africa, but has left a trail of devastation in Mozambique. The cyclone killed seven and injured over 101 people. About 550 […]
Experts – African Hunger Crisis Largely Man-made
According to a top UN official South Sudan is facing a “humanitarian catastrophe”. A famine is looming with almost 4 million people facing food insecurity. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates that 50,000 children could die from malnutrition in the course of this year. Cartoonist Khalid Albaih has two visions of the problem. On […]
Zimbabwe to Donate 2,000 Animals to Limpopo National Park In Mozambique
The Zimbabwean government is to donate 2,000 animals to Moambique to restock the Limpopo National Park (PNL), in the southern province of Gaza. The Zimbabwean Minister of Environment, Water and Climate, Oppah Machinguri, announced the donation on Friday at a press conference closing the Sixth Ministerial Meeting of the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park. The Transfrontier […]
Stop the Violence, Fix the Famine
South Sudan has more fertile farmland than it would need to feed its people. Analyst James Shimanyula says that this is not possible without an end to the continuing ethnic violence. South Sudan, Africa’s newest country, has remained in the throes of ethnic fighting and extreme economic crisis over the past three years and recently […]
Madagascar world’s top vanilla exporter farmers live in poverty and constant fear of losing their crop to theft
Vanilla farmer Jacky points his machete towards a flattened area in the humid Madagascan jungle. This is where he sleeps at night to protect his precious vanilla flowers. “If I stay in my house, a thief might see it, and they will go to the fields,” he says, back in his humble treehouse with his […]
Kenyan Government Declares Drought a National Disaster
The Government has declared the current drought affecting 23 arid and semi-arid counties and pockets of other areas a national disaster. Speaking after being briefed on the situation on the ground by Cabinet Secretaries involved in drought management and food security at state House Nairobi, President Uhuru Kenyatta called on all stakeholders to support the […]
UN Food Agency to Assist 700,000 People in Drought-Hit Mozambique
The World Food Program (WFP) plans to assist 700,000 people via its food aid programs in central and southern Mozambique, the agency announced Tuesday in Maputo. The assistance is part of the response to the weak agricultural performance negatively influenced by droughts that has hit the country in the past 2 years. “The total number […]
250,000 Swazi Still Need Food Aid
At the same time that King Mswati III told his subjects that Swaziland had been saved from the drought because people believed in God, the World Food Program reported 250,000 Swazi people would need assistance with food until at least March 2017. In a sermon, delivered on 28 January 2017, King Mswati declared the drought […]
2.7 Million Kenyans Face Starvation – Agency
The number of Kenyans in need of relief food has risen to 2.7 million from 1.3 million last year, a government agency has said. The National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) said most of those affected by the crisis were the elderly, the sick, mothers and children under the age of five. “The current drought phase […]
17 million people in the Horn of Africa face food crisis – Food and Agriculture Organisation
Over 17 million people in the Horn of Africa face food crisis, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (Fao). Those people are from Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda, the according to the agency, attributing the situation to widespread drought in the Horn of Africa due to few […]
