Women, Children, Refugees Bear Brunt of Mauritania Food Crisis
Women and children are bearing the brunt of a malnutrition and hunger crisis in Mauritania, while tens of thousands of Malian refugees face food shortages due to a lack of funding, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme said on Wednesday. Malnutrition has hit emergency levels in six of Mauritania’s 15 regions, affecting […]
UN Agencies Warn of Deteriorating Food Security in Southern Madagascar
Leading food agencies of the United Nations warned that 46 per cent of the population from eight regions of Madagascar, comprising of 1.9 million people are food insecure, including 450,000 people who face chronic food insecurity. The UN agencies also announced deliverance of a number of programmes in the country with an aim to eliminate […]
Could Your Next Oyster Appetizer Come From Dakhla, Morocco?
It’s now September – the first month since springtime to have an “R” in its name – which means that according to that “little pearl of folk wisdom,” it’s oyster season! Few people think of Morocco when they think of oysters. Seafood overall sometimes comes as a surprise to travelers expecting to eat chicken tagine, […]
Zim Schools Ban Porridge to Prevent Brewing Beer
Some boarding schools in Zimbabwe have banned their pupils from bringing breakfast cereal with them because the students have been using it to brew beer, it was reported on Tuesday. Zimbabwean school pupils headed back for the start of a new term on Tuesday, minus, or so the authorities hoped their porridge. The Chronicle newspaper […]
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi Calls for Joint Efforts On Food Security
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Friday called for combined efforts of all activities involved in agriculture in order to improve food security and reduce the high levels of chronic malnutrition. He was speaking at a debate organized in the presidential offices with agricultural experts, including former agriculture ministers, which centred on how to eliminate hunger […]
SADC Faces Cereal Deficit
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is facing a cereal deficit of over six million tonnes emanating from the poor rainfall and floods that befell the region in the 2014/2015 season. Briefing the media ahead of the 35th Ordinary Summit of Heads of States and Government in Gaborone, the director of food, agriculture and natural […]
Improve Agriculture to Ensure Food Security
TANZANIANS were late last week reassured of food security as President Jakaya Kikwete emphatically declared that no one will die of hunger because the country has enough food to last the next three years. The president was addressing a rally in Lindi Region at the climax of Agricultural Show commonly known as Nane Nane, where […]
Fish Farming Now a Big Hit in Africa
Hillary Thompson, aged 62, throws some grains of left-over rice from his last meal, mixed with some beer dregs from his sorghum brew, into a swimming pool that he has converted into a fish pond. “For over a decade, fish farming has become a hobby that has earned me a fortune,” Thompson, who lives in […]
Ugandan Family Hospitalised, One Dead Over Food Poisoning
Police in Mpigi District are investigating the alleged poisoning of seven members of the same family in an attack that left one dead last week. The incident occurred at Kyewanise village in Kituntu Sub-county, Mpigi District, and the victims were taken to Nkozi Hospital last Wednesday in critical condition. Police identified the deceased as one-year-old […]
