Southern Africa’s food crisis in numbers
28 January 2016 Food
Southern Africa is facing the threat of extensive crop failures this year as a result of record low rainfall in a region in which ...
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![Mphatlalatsane Agriculture Cooperative in Hantsi village, Machache, Lesotho, has lots of leftover maize inputs this year as many local farmers decided the weather was too erratic to risk planting]()
![Pastoralist communities in the Horn of Africa are some of the hardest hit by the drought. They rely on livestock for income and food, and the lack of water only increases their existing vulnerability]()
An unwanted guest: El Niño and Africa in 2016
23 December 2015
El Niño is the largely unwanted Christmas gift – a warming of the tropical Pacific causing drought and floods that will peak at the end of this mon...
![ICRC distributes maize to farmers in Zimbabwe's Fuchira region affected by drought]()
Southern Africa's food crisis - from bad to worse
4 December 2015 Food
Close to 29 million people in southern Africa are already facing food shortages as a result of this season’s poor harvest, but worse could be on th...
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Killing us softly
27 March 2015 Health
A recent public outcry in China, sparked by a damning documentary about air pollution, was based on well-founded fear:...
![WHO's new regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti (right), meets with Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone's Port Loko district.]()
Three words of advice for WHO Africa's new chief
24 February 2015 Health
The World Health Organization says the number of new Ebola cases per week rose twice this month for the first time since December...
![UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie at the annual meeting of the refugee agency's governing body]()
Who celebrity advocates are really targeting. And it’s not you.
13 February 2015 Aid and Policy
This week was a fanfare for celebrity humanitarians: Forest Whitaker ...
![Dry earth in the desert plains of the Danakil depression in northern Ethiopia. For generic use, keywords: drought, famine, dry]()
Nice and dirty – the importance of soil
16 January 2015 Food
Be it laterite, loam, peat or clay, soil is life...
PRESS RELEASE: IRIN humanitarian news service to spin off from the UN
20 November 2014 Migration
A NEW START FOR CRISIS REPORTING ...
![At the border fence: Peter is a “transporter”, helping Zimbabwean migrants across the border. He says people swallow their fear because they have no alternative. Click here for more.. 270220082.mp3]()
An ambitious plan to end statelessness
7 November 2014 Migration
It is now 60 years since stateless people received recognition in international law, and the UN has two conventions (1954 and 1961) dedicated to th...
![Moorosi Nchejana is one of 40 farmers in the village of Mabalane in Lesotho’s Mohale’s Hoek district who participated in a pilot programme by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization to strengthen farmers’ capacity to adapt to climate change (J]()
How to boost food production in Africa
15 September 2014 Solutions and Innovations
Smallholder farmers, who hold over 80 percent of all farms in sub-Saharan Africa, are struggling to adapt to rapidly rising temperature and erratic...
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