Faith Nyasuguta The Tanzanian authorities have began rationing water in the economic capital Dar es Salaam following a drop of water levels in the main source, Ruvu River, which dried up. The Indian Ocean city’s 5.5 million residents will be deprived of running water for 24 hours on alternate days, the Dar es Salaam Water […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Five in ten people globally are likely experiencing hidden hunger — with about 98 million preschool-age children in sub-Saharan Africa living it. A study published in The Lancet Global Health, led by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (Gain) through the USAid Advancing Nutrition project, also found that two in three women between the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A new analysis has shown that an oil pipeline under construction in east Africa will produce huge amounts of carbon dioxide. The project is set to result in 379m tonnes of climate-heating pollution, according to an expert assessment. This is over 25 times the combined annual emissions of Uganda and Tanzania, the host […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Africa Union-brokered peace talks between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has commenced in South Africa. This was revealed by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s mouthpiece Vincent Magwenya to reporters on Wednesday. He further revealed that the talks will end on October 30, 2022. According to Magwenya the talks “have […]
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Faith Nyasuguta US-based researchers have found a genetic link between people with African ancestry and an aggressive type of breast cancer. They hope their findings will motivate more black people to get involved in clinical trials in efforts to boost survival rates for people with the disease. “I never thought I had anything to worry […]
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Avellon Williams PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI- Organizations representing refugees, female merchants, and women, as well as the UN and the human rights sector, have expressed concern that Haiti’s political and humanitarian crisis has disproportionately affected women and girls. During International Girls’ Day, in mid-October, the Support Group for Refugees and Repatriated Haitians, known by its French acronym GARR, said […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The UN humanitarian chief has projected that at least $1 billion will be needed urgently to prevent famine in Somalia in the coming months and in early 2023 when two more dry seasons are expected to compound the historic drought that has hit the Horn of Africa nation. In a video briefing from […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Sunday, Tanzanian authorities said that a fire on Mount Kilimanjaro was mostly under control after flames burned the mountain in the nation for over 24 hours. The blaze commenced on Friday evening near the Karanga site used by climbers ascending the famous peak, at about 4,000 metres altitude on its south side. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Some 150 people including children have been killed in two days of fighting in the latest ethnic clashes over land disputes in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state, a doctor reported on Thursday. The fighting is some of the worst in recent months, and crowds took to the streets of the Blue Nile state capital Damazin in […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Following a funding shortage, Africa is sorely lacking in the output of groundbreaking machine inventions. The African continent is home to some of the brightest, most innovative, and most technologically advanced minds on the planet, as evidenced by the epidemic level of brain drain going on in the continent. Its innovativeness is also evidenced by the […]
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