As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to erode huge gains against much more devastating infections, I look for silver linings. All year, COVID-19 has commandeered the world’s attention. It is as if no other disease has ever been more important, more … Read More
A serious problem, or a pipe dream? Even before the so-called “Scramble for Africa” of the late nineteenth-century, many European powers had a well-established presence in Africa—including some with benign-sounding terms such as “interest” or “protectorate.” But after the Berlin … Read More
Sudan Much of Sudan is in recovery mode after torrential rains caused widespread flooding and landslides, killing at least 10 and damaging or destroying more than 3,300 homes. Almost two dozen schools and several mosques were also destroyed. The U.N. … Read More
UNICEF says the number of malnourished children could increase to 2.4 million Issa Nasser, a 7-month-old Yemeni child, was suffering from severe malnutrition last week. “I don’t have anything to give him,” his father, a local fisherman, told The Associated Press. This … Read More
Locals wade through floodwater after bursting of a river in Beledweyne, central Somalia, May 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Hassan Bashi) Flash floods caused by heavy rains have affected about 37,000 people in Somalia, causing a humanitarian crisis in the regions affected, Somalia’s … Read More
Photo: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images In East Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, traveling swarms of locusts the size of Manhattan are putting potentially hundreds of millions at risk of starvation in what the UN has called the … Read More
A medical worker takes a look outside a preliminary testing facility at the National Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, where people suspected of having contracted the novel strain of coronavirus are being tested. –Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images The number of … Read More
The UN says the situation in the Horn of Africa is the worst in 25 years – EPA Somalia has declared a national emergency as large swarms of locusts spread across east Africa. The country’s Ministry of Agriculture said the … Read More
(KATITIKA, Kenya) — The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious insects from feasting on their … Read More
‘We are urging people to move to safe grounds. Of course, it’s uncomfortable. But at this time we’d rather they feel funny but safe’. Villagers mill around a house that had collapsed and killing one person on spot over ongoing … Read More