By Ntungwe Elias Ngalame 26 Apr 2010 13:26:00 GMT YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AlertNet) – When visitors arrived in Yaounde recently for the 8th annual meeting of the African Road Maintenance Funds Association, they got an odd greeting from a Cameroon host delegate. “Yaounde, a city flanked by seven hills, is an environmentally friendly place with a […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.comApril 26, 2010 The West African nation of Niger is facing an increasingly alarming food crisis as the UN announced it would double the number of people it was feeding today despite continuing budget shortfalls in its World Food Program (WFP). Failing rains have caused crop yields in Niger to decline, while […]
ScienceDaily (Apr. 22, 2010) — African farmers risk being forced from their lands by investors or government projects as global demand for biofuels encourages changes in crop cultivation. Research from the University of Edinburgh has found that livelihoods may be put at risk if African farmland is turned over to growing crops for biofuel. With […]
By Jeremy Clarke and Antony Gitonga; additional reporting by Duncan Miriri and Elias Biryabarema in Nairobi, Barry Malone in Addis Ababa; Editing by Helen Nyambura-Mwaura and Giles ElgoodMon Apr 19, 2010 4:24pm EDT NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenyan flower farmer Jack Kneppers was forced on Monday to throw 6.5 tons of his exquisite roses into […]
Karen Allen reportsSunday, 18 April 2010 10:55 UK Conservationists in South Africa are warning that vultures could soon become extinct because they are being hunted down for use by traditional healers. There is a belief that the scavengers have the power to predict everything from winning lottery numbers to football scores. With the football World […]
Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton (Reuters) – South Africa will increasingly use desalinated seawater to meet growing demand for drinking water in coastal towns facing the worst drought in 150 years, the country’s water minister said Thursday. South Africa is a water-scarce country with an average rainfall of 450 millimeters — […]
Nick Brandt has been photographing the wild animals of East Africa for the past ten years; these images are from his new collection, A Shadow Falls, out now from Abrams. “My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa,” Brandt has written. “They’re my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically […]
8 April 2010 Thugs and plain-clothed police officers are destroying the homes of Ogiek tribe members in Kenya’s Mau Forest, leaving families destitute. Some houses were burned to the ground, while others were hacked apart with chainsaws and machetes. The attacks, in Ngongori area of the Mau Forest complex, began last week when most of […]
Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya: One of thousands of dead flamingos on the dry lake bed. The number of flamingoes living on the lake has declined dramatically, a number of factors have been blamed including the receding waters of the lake, and pollution. Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP World Water day gallery Technorati Tags: drought,freshwater depletion,agriculture,Kenya,Africa,global […]
By SATURDAY NATION CorrespondentPosted Friday, April 9 2010 at 21:00 Survey of the Maasai Mau block of the Mau Forest Complex ended on Friday, setting the stage for the third phase of the restoration of the country’s biggest water tower. The chairman of the interim coordinating secretariat, Mr Hassan Noor Hassan, said the evictions would […]
