Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
By Adam Robert Green Vanguard Dr. Fahd bin Abdulrahman Balghunaim, minister for agriculture for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, speaks to This is Africa about the government’s strategy in Africa. Saudi Arabia’s oil keeps the world turning, but the Kingdom is thirsty for water. For years, the government subsidized domestic food production to feed its […]
By Emma Batha, Vanguard A scramble for cheap African farmland by foreign investors threatens to leave millions of people without water and could ultimately drain the continent’s rivers, a report warns. “If these land grabs are allowed to continue, Africa is heading for a hydrological suicide,” said the report’s co-author Henk Hobbelink, coordinator of […]
By Jinty Jackson Maptuo — Along a dirt road in Mozambique’s Sofala province, a long line of men on bicycles stretches into the distance, each carrying an impossibly big bag of charcoal strapped to his bike. The journey to town takes two days from where they or their families cut down trees and put logs […]
By Geoffrey Kamadi Nairobi — Satellite technology is coming to the aid of pastoralists in drought-stricken Kenya, with the expansion of a water monitoring system that aims to reduce livestock loss. The Livestock Early Warning System combines information uploaded by villagers with satellite data to create a virtually real-time map of forage and water conditions. […]
Luanda — Preliminary results of a fishing investigation held in March, on the Angolan sea, show that there is more fish than in the previous year, a source with the sector has announced. This was said by the technical director of the National Institute of Fishing Investigation (Inip), Filomena Vaz Coelho. She announced it during […]
An international team led by the University of Toronto and Hebrew University has identified the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors. Microscopic traces of wood ash, alongside animal bones and stone tools, were found in a layer dated to one million years ago at the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa. […]
By A. Max Konneh The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has ordered the release of a French fishing vessel, STERENN following the payment of $703,970 fine levied on it in respect of various infractions for which it was arrested. According to a report prepared by the Fisheries Protection Officer and Head of the Boarding […]
By Isaiah Esipisu Nairobi — Sarah Chebet from Nandi Hills in Kenya’s Rift Valley province knows that this year’s long rains are likely to fail. But the mother of one is determined to keep her horticultural project flourishing nonetheless by making use of modern agricultural technology. In early March, the Kenya Meteorological Department predicted the […]
Conakry — Guinea faces acute problems in the supply of clean water and electricity to its citizens, slowing the country’s economic development. A major project to address this is now under way, but some Guineans are skeptical of its promises. Guinea enjoys more rainfall than any other country in West Africa; the country is known […]
Luanda — The brightly painted old shipping container with solar panels on its roof and high-specification filtration devices inside looks out of place in this dusty Angolan village of Bom Jesus, 50 kilometers east of the capital Luanda. But it will soon be providing nearly 20,000 liters a day of clean, drinkable water to the […]