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When Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), recently told the World Economic Forum [...]
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Last year, I attended an event on Climate Change. Sadly, even though I promised to do so immediately after the event, I’m only just getting to write about it. [...]
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What do bugs have to do with your food? Many of us do not think of that beyond the moment when we select and wash our fresh produce. What if I [...]
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Uganda will soon join the league of countries producing oil as the pumping of this natural resource begins in 4 years’ time. With about 1.8 billion untapped [...]
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World-renowned linguist and political analyst Noam Chomsky spoke to 1000 Egyptians at the American University in Cairo (AUC) on 23 October in a lecture entitled “Emerging World [...]
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The Kenyan government has decided to send 200 additional reserve troops to the Kenya-Ethiopia border in response to Ethiopian militia attacks in the Turkana. At present, [...]
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The arid nation of Namibia has a newly discovered aquifer called Ohangwena II, that spans its northeast region, which flows under [...]
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In 2004, Malawi’s population was estimated at 12.3 million with an annual growth rate of 2.1 percent. Malawi is the most densely populated country in the [...]
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Now here is part of the story on Uganda’s journey to conserve the environment and fight climate change. On the eve of this year's World Environment Day; I listened [...]
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), malaria caused an estimated 655,000 deaths (with an uncertainty range of 537,000 to 907,000), mostly among African children in 2010. WHO’s [...]
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Climate Change - a global phenomenon is happening to all of us irrespective of race, color and sexuality. It is one of the [...]
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Following China’s lead, plans to increase the use of biogas, or Anaerobic Digestion, in South Africa could help improve the country’s service delivery and serve as a local solution to the worldwide energy crisis caused by the depletion of fossil [...]
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As we learn from Ulrike Reinhard’s article and the different local views on Future Challenges, achieving sustainable development is one of the most challenging objectives [...]
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Egypt has a population topping 80million. Most of that number is huddled around the Nile River as it makes its long, winding journey across the east of the country, [...]
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East Africa has the lowest level of urbanization on the continent. [...]
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As political chaos chokes Mali’s hitherto long-standing democracy, many are wondering how the West African country will deal with a triple dilemma of the Sahel food crisis, civil upheaval [...]
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In the following, “real estate-oriented tourism” means any tourism strategy that consists of encouraging people to buy real estate as a secondary residence. In her [...]
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Ethiopia is Africa’s biggest aid recipient, and one of Africa’s most food-insecure nations. Simultaneously, Ethiopia is one of most militarized nations on the continent, with [...]
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West Africa is swept by many rivers and water bodies that have kept the region irrigated and fertile along many [...]
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During the 2010 Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum I attended a workshop on how the media deal with topics related to climate change. It was entitled “Climate change and [...]
