The worst locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in 70 years has reached South Sudan, a country where roughly half the population already faces hunger after years of civil war, officials announced Tuesday.
Around 2,000 locusts were (...)
قالت صحيفة "جان جاك كورنيش" الأوعندية: إن شركة صينية تقدمت بطلب للحصول على ترخيص في أوغندا لبناء سد عبر النيل.
وأضافت الصحيفة إن السد الجديد سيؤدي إلى مزيد من عدم الاستقرار في الدول التي ما زالت تحاول الوصول إلى اتفاق بشأن تشغيل سد النهضة الكبرى على (...)
People may still recall the huge crowds receiving late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel-Nasser in Khartoum, Sudan, in wake of the earthquake that rocked the very foundations of the Middle East and still: the 1967 Six-Day War. At that time, the (...)
Uganda scrambled to respond to the arrival of the biggest locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in decades, while the United Nations warned Monday that ``we simply cannot afford another major shock'' to an already vulnerable region.
An (...)
Arab reactions to the US Middle East peace plan, or so-called “Deal of the Century”, from the resolutions of the Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to the flag burnings and trampling on pictures in Ramallah and Gaza, were natural (...)
Fruttella for Food Industries aims to increase its exports of agricultural crops between 15 and 20% this season, by increasing the total contracts with existing customers and contracting with new customers through international trade fairs and (...)
The United Nations is to test drones equipped with mapping sensors and atomizers to spray pesticides in parts of east Africa battling an invasion of desert locusts that are ravaging crops and exacerbating a hunger crisis.
Hundreds of millions of (...)
At a glance, the desert locusts in this arid patch of northern Somalia look less ominous than the billion-member swarms infesting East Africa in the worst outbreak some places have seen in 70 years.
But their time will come.
Small and wingless, the (...)
Sudan has agreed to allow flights heading to Israel to cross its airspace, a military spokesman said on Wednesday, two days after Sudan's military head of state held a surprise meeting with Israel's prime minister.
The meeting in Uganda between (...)
The head of Sudan's sovereign council on Tuesday confirmed that he held a meeting with the Israeli prime minister in Uganda on Monday.
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said in a statement the responsibility of discussing Sudanese-Israeli relations and (...)
Following deep shortfalls in national budgets, African governments are turning to public-private partnerships (PPPs) to bridge the financing gap. Foreign investments supported by collaborative co-financing with development finance institutions offer (...)
Soccer player George Mandela was banned for life by FIFA on Tuesday for match-fixing in the Kenyan league and three others got four-year bans.
FIFA said Mandela, who is from Uganda, had a ``central role in the conspiracy'' to fix games last (...)
Uganda is "studying" the possibility of opening an embassy in Jerusalem, President Yoweri Museveni said on Monday, during a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Such a move would be seen internationally as a statement of support for (...)
Swarms of desert locusts could ravage more countries in eastern Africa and threaten the livelihood of many more people, the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said on Monday.
The swarms, first sighted in December, have already (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the leader of Sudan on Monday and said they began talks on normalization, a major diplomatic breakthrough with an Arab and African state two days after the Arab League rejected a US Mideast (...)
As locusts by the billions _ yes, billions _ descend on parts of Kenya in the worst outbreak in 70 years, small planes are flying low over affected areas to spray pesticides in what experts call the only effective control.
It is challenging work, (...)
The five largest economies in Africa namely Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, and South Africa contributed more than half of the continent 's growth in 2019, with Egypt contributing the most, accounting for about one-third of the aggregate growth (...)
Africans are facing worsening food and water insecurity among other threats from climate and weather extremes - but few grasp how and why they are at risk, or see global warming as a top policy priority, young African activists warned on Friday.
"In (...)
Youssef M Hamada, a professor of agricultural economy, is a member of the Centre for Agricultural Economics Research Institute in Cairo. He published The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, its Impact on Egyptian Agriculture and the Potential for (...)
It was fourth time lucky for Sadio Mané. As expected, the Senegalese and Liverpool star was declared winner of the African Player of the Year award for his outstanding achievements the past season. The women's player is Asisat Oshoala of Nigeria and (...)
Zamalek's shot-stopper Mahmoud Gennesh resumed full training after a lengthy injury-lay off on Friday, giving his team a timely goalkeeping boost.
Gennesh, who played an instrumental role in helping Zamalek win the African Confederation Cup and (...)
A number of economic reports were recently released assessing the performance of African countries, particularly those south of the Sahara. The reports revealed marked improvement in those African countries' economic performance, despite political (...)
The future of Pyramids FC coach Sebastien Desabre is uncertain after the ambitious outfit further fell behind in the title race with another loss in the Egyptian Premier League on Tuesday.
Pyramids conceded a stoppage-time goal to slump to a 3-2 (...)
Tropical glaciers in Africa and South America began their retreat simultaneously at the end of the last ice age about 20,000 years ago, a Dartmouth College study suggests.
The finding of synchrony in ice retreat across the global tropics clarifies (...)
The late UN secretary-general Kofi Annan had a maxim that he often used. He would say that “one cannot have real peace without development; and one cannot have real development without peace; and neither is possible without the full exercise of (...)
