More humanitarian assistance is needed in Mozambique nearly a month after a cyclone struck the south African country. A joint call by four aid groups urges donors to meet the U.N.’s $10.2 million funding request to support more than 150,000 people in Mozambique affected by Cyclone Dineo.
The return of rain following the end of El Niño should be good news for farmers in Southern Africa. But a pest from the Americas is ruining everything. Countries recovering from the two-year long drought that caused widespread food insecurity now face a rapidly spreading crop killer. The invasive fall armyworm is destroying maize across the region and spreading quickly from country to country serving a “blow to prospects of recovery” for the region, says the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Eastern and Southern sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 55% of total deaths from HIV/AIDS in 2013. In most countries in these…
By Julia E. Robinson, director of advocacy programs for Health Alliance International at the University of Washington. It’s an exciting…
Only two countries in Southern Africa are likely to achieve improved access to safe water and improved sanitation, by the…