Cape Town is in the unenviable situation of being the first major city in the modern era to face the threat of running out of drinking water. However, the plight of the drought-hit South African city...
Former Hearts of Oak midfielder dynamo Lawrence Adjah Tetteh has bemoaned the club's nine-year trophy drought. The vociferous supporters of the Phobians have had to endure a dry trophy spell for the...
The Somali people of Ethiopia's southeast have a name for the drought that has killed livestock, dried up wells and forced hundreds of thousands into camps: sima, which means "equalised". It's an...
Kenya has pledged to promote policies frameworks, strategies and actions to combat desertification, a senior government official said Friday. Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Environment and...
Though it has about 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land, Africa’s net food import is predicted to grow from $39bn in 2016 to over $110bn by 2025. Food production is desperately low due in...
Up to 10,000 people have been evacuated from a scenic coastal town in South Africa that has been devastated by wildfires, officials have said. Military equipment was being deployed to douse more than...
Up to 10,000 people have been evacuated from a scenic coastal town in South Africa that has been devastated by wildfires, officials have said. Military equipment was being deployed to douse more than...
The worst drought in a century is forcing the most stringent water restrictions ever implemented for South Africa's second largest city. Cape Town has less than 10% of its useable water remaining for...
As Cape Town suffers its worst drought in a century, residents have been told to restrict showers to two minutes and flush toilets only when "absolutely necessary". The city -- South Africa's biggest...
South Africa is expecting to harvest its biggest maize crop in four decades a year after drought devastated output of the country’s staple food. Farmers are set to produce over 15 million tonnes...
South Africa's Western Cape region which includes Cape Town declared a drought disaster on Monday as the province battled its worst water shortages for 113 years. Boreholes will be drilled at...
Drought and conflict have pushed the Horn of Africa, Nigeria and Yemen to the brink of famine, and a lack of aid funding means many could starve to death, the UN said Tuesday. More than 20 million...
The United Nations warned Tuesday that "the risk of mass deaths from starvation ... is growing" among people in conflict and drought-hit areas of the Horn of Africa, Yemen and Nigeria. Due to drought...
One of the worst droughts in California history has officially ended, Governor Jerry Brown declared, but not before it strained the state's farm economy and threatened water supplies for millions of...
California Governor Jerry Brown declared Friday the official end of the state's drought that lasted more than five years. Despite lifting the drought emergency in all but four counties, the governor...
In just a few years water, oil and money would flow. Roads, schools and hospitals would follow. Turkana's generations of poverty and neglect in Kenya's arid north would end. But it was not to be:...
The United Nations has raised alarm over a major outbreak of cholera in southern Somalia. Aid groups are already scrambling to help people suffering from severe drought and mass malnutrition. The UN...
The Finnish government has allocated over EUR 18 million (over $20 million) to five famine-hit African countries at risk of death and starvation caused by drought and conflict. The countries are...
One in four of the world’s children will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040 as a result of climate change, the UN has warned. Within two decades, 600 million children...
Sir Mo Farah has said it "breaks his heart" to hear how families are facing starvation in East Africa as he backed a UK charity fundraising appeal. The Olympian said it "hurts to see children without...
