Yearly Archives: 2022
International Medical Corps is helping prevent malnutrition by teaching sustainable gardening techniques. As countries in the Horn of Africa experience worsening food security issues, our team in Ethiopia has been sharing home gardening programs that give community members the tools they need to grow their own vegetables and provide nutrient-rich meals to their families. With […]
NORTHERN-BAHR-EL-GHAZAL – Road travel in South Sudan can be adventurous, and not always in the positive, exciting sense of the word. Monitoring the flow of movement are police officers who are not always familiar with traffic rules, or how to keep more vulnerable road users, like pedestrians and (motor)cyclists, safe. UN police officers serving with […]
IMS (International Media Support) and Free Press Unlimited (FPU) have launched a programme to support the independent public interest media sector in the Middle East and North Africa as a complement to the two organisations’ existing engagements in the region Independent media and journalists in the Middle East and North Africa face significant systemic challenges […]
EASTERN EQUATORIA- Recent cattle raids in Kapoeta North County have led to hundreds of deaths and even more people being injured. In response, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the government of Eastern Equatoria State have visited the area to engage with the affected communities, reduce tensions and find out why the […]
Kinshasa, 19 July 2022 – the world’s largest oil and gas companies are urged by Greenpeace to sit out a major oil and gas auction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the end of July. In letters sent to oil companies worldwide, Greenpeace warns of an ominous auction at the expense of biodiversity […]
The latest IGAD Regional Focus on Food Crises report sounds the alarm on escalating food insecurity and malnutrition in the region Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22 July 2022: Over 50 million people are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above*) this year across seven IGAD countries (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, […]
MORE than 20 villagers who lost property at Arnold Farm in Mazowe in Mashonaland Central province through illegal evictions instigated by government and former First Lady Grace Mugabe have won more than US$30 000 in compensation for the destruction of their homesteads and property. On 20 March 2017, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers raided and […]
We caught up with Hon. Paula Ingabire, Rwanda’s Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation and Chair of the recent World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) held in Kigali, Rwanda, by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). This was the first WTDC to happen in Africa since the establishment of ITU’s Development Sector in 1992. What does […]
African activists are turning to cryptocurrency and NFTs to plug funding gaps in education, energy, healthcare, housing and jobs By Kagondu Njagi NAIROBI, July 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A sculpture of a giant tap spewing plastic waste greeted delegates at U.N. environment talks in Kenya earlier this year – a reminder of the urgent […]
Kenya’s presidential candidates have been campaigning ahead of elections next month, and there have been misleading allegations made about their qualification to stand. We’ve been fact-checking these claims and others ahead of the vote. Academic qualifications challenged Kenya’s electoral laws require candidates for the presidency to have been awarded a degree from a university recognised […]