West Africa: Locusts Head South for Rains, Threat of Worst Plague in 15 Years: The first desert locust swarms have left their breeding areas in North Africa and moved south to Mauritania, Senegal, and Mali, threatening the Sahel region with its worst plague in 15 years unless action is taken, the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has warned.
Rwanda: Fire Destroys One-Third of Kagera National Park
Africa is not poor, needs management: The annual budget of most African
governments includes an element of external financing, but much
as their nationals appreciate donor funding of development
projects, they are fed up with reports about Finance ministers
who globetrot with a begging bowl that eventually inflates the
economy. |
