September 23, 2009
Africa: Maathai Urges World Leaders to Act on Climate Change
World-renowned Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai has appealed to the world's leaders to agree on an "ambitious" and "binding" deal at the United… Read more »
July 15, 2009
Africa: Zimbabwe Has 'Potential for Change' - Says Top U.S. Congressman in Wide-Ranging Interview
Donald M. Payne, who has represented New Jersey's 10th District in the United States House of Representatives since 1989, chairs the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and… Read more »
July 07, 2009
Africa: Climate Change Threatens Food Supply, G8 Warned
Sub-Saharan Africa is set to lose U.S. $2 billion a year as the viability of its maize crops declines as a result of changes in global weather patterns. Cash crops such as tea and… Read more »
Africa: Beating the Effects of Climate Change
An excerpt from the Oxfam report “Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and Poverty”: Read more »
Africa: Losing Homes and Eating Ants - Floods in Zambia and Uganda
An excerpt from the Oxfam report “Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and Poverty”: Read more »
Africa: Climate Change Threatens Crop Yields
Excerpts from the Oxfam report “Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and Poverty”: Read more »
June 10, 2009
Africa: Climate Change Threatens Instability in 37 Nations, Says Report
Climate change threatens to spark violent conflict in 23 African countries and political instability in another 14, a top-level international review panel says in a report… Read more »
June 16, 2008
Africa: Rising Food Prices Will Kill Children, Says Panel
There will be a "sharp increase" in deaths among young children in Africa unless the international community finds a way of stopping the current rise in food prices,… Read more »
November 27, 2007
Africa: Climate Change Threatens Continent
The carbon emissions of developed countries threaten to devastate sub-Saharan Africa in the coming decades, says a major United Nations report issued today. Read more »
August 22, 2007
Africa: Flooding Affecting Millions
Flooding has affected millions of Africans throughout the continent in recent days. Read more »
June 13, 2007
Lesotho: Drought Creates Food Crisis
One in five people in Lesotho will face food shortages in the coming year as a result of the most serious drought in the country in 30 years, international agencies have warned. Read more »
April 17, 2007
Ethiopia: After the Flood
It's a long way from Louisiana. But when you stand on the banks of the Dechatu River that runs through the southern Ethiopian city of Dire Dawa, you can feel that this is a… Read more »
October 30, 2006
Africa: Climate Change Debate
Climate change is slowing development across Africa, and affecting the daily lives of millions of Africans. According to a new report, Africa - Up in Smoke 2, the international… Read more »
February 02, 2006
Africa: Anglican Church Announces Plans to Combat Poverty, Climate Change
International representatives of the Anglican Church meeting in South Africa today launched a global initiative to bring church members around the world together to fight poverty… Read more »
October 14, 2005
Niger: Africare Team Reflects on 35 Years of Work in Niger
As Africare celebrates its 35 year anniversary this week, representatives from the group's Niger program came to Washington to discuss the food crisis in the West African nation… Read more »
June 22, 2005
Mozambique: Country Pursuing Investment for Development, President Says
Armando Guebuza, who won the presidency of Mozambique in December 2004 elections, is one of the African leaders attending the Corporate Council on Africa's Business Summit in… Read more »
June 04, 2003
Ethiopia: Drought and Hunger Bite Deeper as Appeal Falls Short
The UN World Food Programme is warning that despite an early response by the international community to the consequences of Ethiopia's drought, 12.5 million Ethiopians continue to… Read more »
April 01, 2003
Africa: Agriculture Needs Higher Priority, Says USAID Administrator
"There is no constituency for agriculture," an apparently exasperated Andrew Natsios, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator, told a Congressional… Read more »
January 23, 2003
Africa: Climate Change Spells Disaster for African Agriculture - Unless We Adapt
In the next 50 years, the world's population is expected to increase from six billion to nine billion. At the same time the planet they must survive on is under pressure; the… Read more »
November 20, 2002
Africa: 'New-Variant' Famine: How Aids Has Changed the Hunger Equation
Just as HIV destroys the body's immune system, the epidemic of HIV and Aids has disabled the body politic. As a result of HIV, the worst-hit African countries have undergone a… Read more »
October 18, 2002
East Africa: African Ice Caps Disappearing
Like canaries in coalmines, which once signaled the existence of life-threatening gases before human miners could perceive them, tropical glaciers are a warning for our… Read more »
October 15, 2002
Africa: Famine in Africa is "Overwhelming the System"
The spread of famine in Africa now threatens well over 30 million people and is overwhelming the capacity of relief agencies to address the problem, the World Food Program warned… Read more »
October 01, 2002
Southern Africa: Food Crisis - Slow Suffering In the Village
Skeletal children dying of starvation and the carcasses of livestock aren't yet found in the bone dry villages of Malawi's interior, but the dots connecting weather, disease and… Read more »
August 27, 2002
Africa: Drought Demonstrates Need for Sustainable Development
World leaders, environmentalists, corporate CEOs and others who are in Johannesburg, South Africa this week for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) need to look no… Read more »
