Get a Virtual Tour of Africa’s Bucket List Destinations
One of the top sights of this tiny mountain kingdom is Maloti-Drakensberg Park, which straddles part of the country’s border with South Africa. The park, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is home to the largest and most concentrated group of rock paintings in sub-Saharan Africa. Check out these images from around the park, […]
The First Petroleum Firm to Turn to Solar in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s power cuts, which can last up to 18 hours a day, have deeply impacted industry, including the manufacturing and mining sectors, forcing some companies to run at night or cut back on shifts. Qetello Zeka, Total Zimbabwe’s managing director, says that company has already installed solar panels at six of its stations and plans […]
Can the Green Revolution Reduce Sub-Saharan Africa’s Poverty and Food Insecurity?
The Green Revolution brought about a great increase in crop yields in some countries in the Global South. Hybridised seeds produced more grains per plant and were more responsive to fertiliser and irrigation. But the effects of this “revolution” were famously uneven, the farming environment in sub-Saharan Africa wasn’t as well suited to the technologies […]
Running a Refugee Camp after a 30% Budget Cut
Food rations have been cut to more than 1.4 million vulnerable refugees in Uganda by the World Food Programme (WFP) because of insufficient funds. Announcing a 30% reduction to the relief food it distributes to refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from neighbouring South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi, the WFP in […]
East Africa Braces itself for a Second Wave of Destruction
Some one million people in Ethiopia require emergency food aid after swarms of desert locusts damaged 200,000 hectares (half a million acres) of cropland in a region already struggling with food security, the United Nations has said. The announcement on Monday from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which recently concluded a joint assessment […]
How Tunisia’s 3D Mask are Made
Engineering student Taha Grach is helping Tunisia in the fight against Covid-19 – by 3D-printing face masks. He is one of six, at the National School of Engineering in Sousse that is being overseen by medical and engineering organisations. The team even came up with a new design so they could cut the processing time […]
What South Africa Wants from the IMF
South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni ruled out an International Monetary Fund structural adjustment programme on Tuesday but said the COVID-19 pandemic would cause a deep recession and stretch weak public finances. Mboweni’s comments came after the central bank unexpectedly cut its main lending rate by 100 basis points to 4.25%, another step to try […]
African Recipients of the IMF’s Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the fund’s executive board approved on Monday the first batch of countries to receive grants to cover their debt service obligations to the fund for an initial six months. She said the CCRT had about $500 million in resources on hand, including new pledges of $185 million from Britain, […]
Express Delivery to Help Fight the Pandemic in Poorer African Countries
The United Nations is transporting the first cargo of vital medical supplies to a number of African countries to help them contain the spread of COVID-19. The supplies, which are provided by the World Health Organization and transported by the World Food Program, will be airlifted from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to countries most in need. […]
A Landlocked African Country with No Coronavirus Cases, Prepares
Lesotho has yet to record a case of COVID-19 as of April 13, one of two countries to escape the virus since it reached the continent. The other being the island nation of Comoros. But the government in Maseru led by Prime Minister Tom Thabane has rolled out a series of economic intervention measures to […]
