Daily Archives: June 11, 2022
Fake news in the press and on social media is a growing problem in Tunisia. With support from Hivos, the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) set up the fact-checking platform Tunifact in 2021. “Politicians all over the world love to lie, but in Tunisia they really love it,” says Arwa Kooli, editor-in-chief of Tunifact. […]
The Horn of Africa is being hit by the worst drought in four decades, putting up to 20 million people at risk of famine, according to the UN. Consecutive seasons of below-average rains are severely impacting food security in areas already beset by multiple other challenges. By now it should be more than obvious that […]
Somalia and Somaliland are facing one of the worst droughts in decades, following four poor rainy seasons and a locust invasion that swept across the Horn of Africa. Severe water shortages and dry pastures have decimated livestock, affecting the livelihoods of Somali pastoralist communities. As crops fail and food prices rise, people’s ability to stave […]