Storm Ana deaths rise to 88 as second storm brews to Africa’s east
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters Tropical Storm Ana has killed at least 88 people across southern and eastern Africa, with recovery operations still ongoing as another storm threatened more severe weather. Storm Ana passed over Madagascar on 22nd January, adding to days of already intense rainfall. The country declared a state of disaster on Thursday night, reporting […]
Land rights: Indigenous Namibians fight for ancestral land in national park
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from southern Africa…
SNAPSHOT: MOUNTAINS IN LESOTHO
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Cheap as bread, girls sell sex to survive hunger crisis in Africa
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Young girls in southern Africa are selling sex – sometimes for less than the cost of bread – to survive a hunger crisis ensnaring tens of millions, aid agencies said last week. In Angola, girls of 12 sell themselves for as little as 40 cents to feed their families as the […]
Death toll rises in southern Africa in wake of Cyclone Idai
The death toll from Cyclone Idai in the southern African nations of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi has now passed at least 600 with thousands of people still in need of immediate help. The cyclone striuck Mozambique earlier this month centred on the port city of Beira before moving over land to Zimbabwe and Malawi. On […]
African cyclone survivors risk ‘second wave’ of loss with disease threat
Thompson Reuters Foundation At least half a million survivors of a powerful cyclone in southeast Africa are at risk of fatal diseases, from cholera and dysentery to malaria, aid workers warned on Thursday, as rescue teams struggled to reach flood-hit communities. Packing wind speeds of up to 170 kph, Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique’s port city […]
Quick facts: Cyclone Idai’s trail of destruction across south-east Africa
Thomson Reuters Foundation Rescue teams in south-east Africa were struggling on Wednesday to reach people stranded by flooding after Cyclone Idai killed hundreds and left a trail of destruction in one of the worst natural disasters to hit southern Africa in decades. Mozambique started three days of national mourning for those killed in what has […]
DESERT CROSSING: MATT NAPIER’S MISSION TO CHANGE THE WORLD, ONE STEP AT A TIME
DAVID ADAMS speaks to Matt Napier about his recent walk across southern Africa’s Namib Desert and how he and his wife Wendy are trying to make a difference to the lives of the world’s poorest…