The change in climate and weather patterns is precipitating a rapid spread of the Sahara Desert, encroaching into lands and engulfing huge lakes, according to climate scientists. ... Read more »
Crowded conditions, extreme poverty and compromised immunity, lack of access to water and hygiene and rudimentary health infrastructures are all factors increasing Africa's ... Read more »
Billions of desert locusts have swept across east Africa, threatening the livelihoods of more than 20 million people. The United Nations has called the infestation - which has also ... Read more »
The South West Indian Ocean Fish project that has been implemented by the agriculture and fishing ministry has had a positive impact on fish stocks. An official has said that ... Read more »
Farmers have criticised the government for abandoning the war on the destructive insects and called for speedy intervention. They are worried that the invasion could lead to major ... Read more »
14.5 million Kenyans are food insecure every year according to the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research Analysis. Although Kenya has made some progress with food security, it ... Read more »
Officials have said the hopper bands could form swarms close to 100 times larger than the wave that descended in the region from neighbouring Somalia and Ethiopia. A newly hatched ... Read more »
Malawi has become the latest African country to legalise the growing of marijuana, a crop that could supplement the tobacco industry, which has been the country's economic ... Read more »
The ban comes against a backdrop of dwindling donkey numbers following their theft by syndicates who sell them to slaughterhouses at the expense of citizens, according to Cabinet ... Read more »
A mystery disease has hit bananas in Uganda's western region and has spread to 11 districts. The disease, which agricultural experts have not defined, was first reported ast year ... Read more »
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