Faith Nyasuguta Hippos could be added to the list of the world’s most endangered animals following dwindling populations sparked by the climate crisis, poaching and the ivory trade. Across sub-Saharan Africa, the semi-aquatic mammals are found in lakes and rivers, with an estimated population of 115,000-130,000. In addition to the trade in ivory – found […]
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Faith Nyasuguta As he was being sworn into office for the first time on April 9, 2013, President Uhuru Kenyatta vowed to “lead all Kenyans, those who voted for me and those who voted for our competitors” towards national prosperity firmly rooted in a rich and abiding peace. Nearly 10 years later, the statesman has […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Last Thursday, the licensing rights for 30 oil and gas blocks in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) went up for auction. The move opened parts of earth’s second-largest rainforest to drilling, something that could release huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, shortchanging climate goals to tame global warming. DRC President Felix Tshisekedi […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ethiopian Airlines has swapped its existing orders of A350-900 for larger planes, making it the first African carrier, yet again to own the largest variant of the Airbus A350 models. Africa’s most profitable airline has converted four of its remaining six A350-900 orders into the larger aeroplanes. With the latest move, the purchased […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Most parts of South Africa have been hit by endless power cuts, but a remote whites-only farming town in the nation’s sun-drenched centre is nearing production of enough electricity to be self-sufficient. Just at the end of a gravel track outside the Afrikaner town of Orania, a diamond mesh gate opens onto hundreds […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Residents in Ethiopia’s besieged Tigray region are opting for perilous smuggling routes out of the area to evade forced military service on one side and the starvation and repression imposed by the other. During its conflict, Tigray has been largely shut off from the outside world during the conflict, with the Ethiopian authorities […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Nine people, among them a senior local government official, were killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing in southern Somalia claimed by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group, police and witnesses said. The attack occurred outside the administration office in the town of Marka, where the district commissioner Abdullahi Ali Ahmed Wafow was speaking with […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Thousands of years of volcanic activity has caused a massive accumulation of methane and carbon dioxide to dissolve in the depths of Kivu — enough to prove monumentally destructive in the rare event they were released. If prompted, a so-called limnic eruption would cause “a huge explosion of gas from deep waters to […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Ukraine war has exerted an upward pressure on already high global food prices, with major effects on acute food insecurity. Economic concerns are also driving food insecurity, as the world economy – still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic – has slowed down due to global supply chain disruptions, high levels of inflation […]
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Faith Nyasuguta China’s demand for traditional medicines has sent poachers hunting for African animals from rhinos to pangolins, now donkeys. But as in nations from Burkina Faso to Kenya, South Africa is now seeing its donkey population drop, threatening other businesses that make soaps and creams from donkey milk. The produce extracted from them can […]
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