By Nnaemeka Meribe
If nothing is done soon to combat climate change, the number of armed conflicts raging in Africa is likely to increase, and this may swell the number of deaths from war, according to a new report.
Climate change, according to Wikipaedia, is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time [...]
Below is a roundup of news from or about Sub-Saharan Africa for the period: 31 December 2009–13 January 2010, as compiled by the Science and Development Network (Scidev).
Tanzanian text message project monitors antimalarial stocks
A mobile phone initiative has been launched to increase the availability of antimalarials in remote areas of Tanzania. SMS for Life — [...]
Rachel Shebesh, a parliamentarian in the Republic of Kenya and chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction, has been appointed as the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction champion for disaster risk reduction in Africa.
The appointed was made this week during the launch of the Black and Green, Ready to Lead campaign [...]
By Aaron Tesfaye*
As the world’s leaders meet in Copenhagen, Denmark on 7 December 2009, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, things are already starting to look bleak for the poorest of the poor on the planet. They are the pastoralists of Africa.
Many eke out a living in the Sahel, a semi-desert belt that stretches [...]
By Catherine Sasman
Too few businesses use appropriate industry-led approaches to tackle the threat of wholesale deforestation, The Forest Dialogue has found.
The Forest Dialogue (TFD) is made up of a group of individuals from different regions across the globe that has committed itself to the conservation and sustainable use of forests.
The group has now come out [...]
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