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  • By Improving Access To Basic Necessities, Israeli Technologies Transform Africa, Save Lives

    ISRAEL, 2016/02/12 Israeli innovation has long been the center of attention – products like the USB flash drive or the electric epilator, inclunding apps like Waze and Viber, are used by millions of people around the world. However, Israeli-developed technologies that help rural societies in Africa don’t always receive the attention they deserve, even though they’re saving the lives of millions.

  • Questions hang over climate finance after COP 21

    WORLD, 2016/01/30 The gathering of world elites at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, in January takes place against a backdrop of crises. However it is not China’s slowdown, the migration crisis or falling stock markets that is keeping economists up at night. According to a WEF survey released ahead of the summit on January 14, environmental catastrophe caused by climate change comes out at the top of the inventory.

  • Seychelles: Hunt for Rare Coral in Seychelles Finds the Pearl Bubble Coral

    SEYCHELLES, 2016/01/18 Finding the majority threatened coral in Seychelles proved to be a difficult task for Sylvanna Antha and her team at the Seychelles National Parks Authority. Five types of coral found in the Indian Ocean islands have been listed as in danger of extinction by the Zoological Society of London under the EDGE - Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered - programme. During a two-year study of Seychelles' coral, Antha's team was able to locate the pearl bubble coral - scientific name Physogyra lichtensteini. But it was not able to find the other species.

  • Egypt: Planning Minister Says Working to Create Attractive Climate for Skilled Personnel

    EGYPT, 2016/01/18 Planning Minister Ashraf el Araby has said that a plan to upgrade the Institute of National Planning (INP) is meant to create an attractive climate for skilled personnel. A lot of graduates of the institute are presently working at international organizations and Arab nations, Araby said in the inauguration ceremony of the renovated INP on Saturday.

  • Mozambique: 'Orange Alert' Declared in Mozambique

    MAPUTO CITY, 2016/01/18 The Mozambican government's Disaster Management Technical Commission (CTGC) on Friday announced an orange alert, only one step removed from the maximum national of disaster readiness, a red alert. The move was prompted by a combination of torrential rains north of the Zambezi and a severe drought in southern Mozambique. The soils in the north of the country are presently saturated, and the weather estimate is for 300 millimetres of rain in the next 15 days in Nampula, Niassa and Cabo Delgado provinces. In Cabo Delgado, the Messalo, Muagide and Megaruma rivers are presently all at flood alert level.

  • Namibia: MuliloLiambezi Fish Could Be Harvested for Drought Relief

    NAMIBIA, 2016/01/18 The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has vowed not to lift the fishing ban, despite a significant number of fish dying in shallow waters in Lake Liambezi, that is on the verge of drying up, as it did not receive significant inflows as a result of recurrent droughts. The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has hinted that it could harvest the fish from Liambezi and from some fish ponds for distribution to drought affected residents. Because of the ban on freshwater fishing that was imposed - ironically to allow depleted fishing stocks to recover - the locals cannot collect the stranded fish that floundering in the shallow waters of Lake Liambezi.

  • El Nino and Drought Take a Toll On Zimbabwe's Cattle

    ZIMBABWE, 2016/01/17 Justin Dlomo watches his small herd of emaciated cattle scrounge for bits of dry grass with a growing sense of dread. "I don't even know what to do anymore," he says. Worsening drought in Zimbabwe has dried up water holes, crops and pasture, leaving farmers like 56-year-old Dlomo, who lives about 120 kilometres north of Bulawayo, unable to feed their animals - and unable to sell them for much either. "We are all selling off our livestock. Better that than watch the cattle die," Dlomo told Thomson Reuters Foundation.

  • South Africa: Rain Gives Hope to Struggling Free State Farmers

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2016/01/13 Tears and prayers flowed as parts of the drought-stricken Free National received some much-needed rain on Monday. "Hierdie boervrou se trane het klaar die reënmeter vol (This farmer's wife's tears have by instantly filled the rain gauge)," wrote Annelize le Roux on the Facebook page Boere in Nood (Farmers in Need). Morne Myburgh posted a video clip of rain on the Winburg-Senekal road, saying "Praise God".

  • A room where elephant tusks and rhino horns are kept in Harare

    CHINA, 2016/01/06 Zimbabwe is to increase the export of wildlife, including elephants, to China, the environment minister says.

  • A herd of elephants run from bee sounds in Samburu national park in Kenya

    BOTSWANA, 2016/01/05 A community near the famed Serengeti national park in Tanzania is enlisting the help of bees to reduce escalating tensions with elephants that enrage locals by trampling upon their crops. A fence made of beehives is being constructed around a one-acre farm close to the Ngorongoro conservation area as part of the pilot project to see if the buzzing bees will deter elephants that stroll on to cropland. It’s hoped that the “bee fence” concept, which has by presently been deployed in Kenya and Botswana, will help reduce conflict in northern Tanzania, which has become a hotspot for clashes between humans and elephants.
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