In East Africa, rainfall has been below average in four consecutive wet seasons, the longest in 40 years, with indications that the current season could also be dry. As a result of the persistent drought and other compounding factors, an estimated 18.4 to 19.3 million people faced food “Crisis” or worse levels of acute food insecurity before June 2022
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The Ministerial meeting further reviewed the regional power generation and transmission projects, petroleum and gas programmes, renewable energy and energy efficiency issues, energy sector regulatory activities implemented by the subsidiary organisations and the International Cooperating Partners supporting SADC Energy programmes.
"On a daily basis, we read about how companies come and dictate their own terms within communities without proper consultation and just get away with it. But for us, it was all about making a difference. When we talk about Ubuntu, we need to be the ones who practice it."
The category B municipality which includes the four mining towns of Allanridge, Hennenman, Odendaalsrus, Ventersburg, Virginia and Welkom has been plagued by raw sewage spillages for the better part of the last two decades.
While the world’s changing climate is taking a toll on basic city services, infrastructure, livelihoods and health, cities are also a large contributor to climate change. Cities consume almost 80 percent of the total energy produced globally and intake up to 70 percent of the world’s food supply.
Apartheid's forced removals not only impacted victims physically but also led to spiritual turmoil caused by the disconnection of people from their ancestral land
It is only recently, at age 36, that Saoudé Garba has felt in charge of her own life. Born in the village of Danje in southern Niger, she was married early to one of the three chiefs of the village. She had her first child at the age of 15, followed by eight more
archaeologists say they have been finding some of the earliest evidence for sustained trade with the Indian Ocean world at the site “and some of the artefacts that we are finding predate Mapungubwe by about 400 years...”
Marking the year 2023 as the International Year of Millets (IYM), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Plant Genetic Resources Centre also encourages food scientists…
The Makuleke CPA currently has two lodges, Return Africa and The Outpost, and a training institution, Makuleke Eco-Training. Some 70% of the workers at these three facilities come from the local community.