Africa faces an escalating water crisis as climate change disrupts rainfall patterns across the continent, creating a paradox of flooding and drought that threatens millions of lives and livelihoods. Despite recent rainfall increases in some regions, critical water shortages persist, particularly affecting major river basins including the Zambezi basin in Southern Africa. Diminished precipitation over […]
The terrorist designation given to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, will be removed, Ethiopian lawmakers decided in a special session Wednesday (22 March), but UN human rights experts have warned that violations committed during the armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region must still be investigated if long-term peace is to be achieved. Lawmakers […]
Côte d’Ivoire, which aspires to become a “major” oil producer by 2023, has announced a new discovery of oil and natural gas by Italian hydrocarbon giant ENI, thus effectively expanding its potential reserves found last year by 25%. In September 2021, ENI announced a „major discovery” of offshore oil and gas resources in Ivory Coast, […]
