Tunisian authorities have launched a sweeping operation to dismantle informal migrant camps around the town of El Amra, leaving hundreds of sub-Saharan African migrants homeless. For nearly two years, these camps, nestled within olive groves, have served as temporary havens for migrants stranded in Tunisia after failed attempts to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. The […]
The unprecedented drought that has enveloped large parts of southern Africa since late last year has impacted more than 6 million people in Zambia, 3 million of them children, nearly half of Malawi’s population and 30% of Zambia’s, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned. The drought in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi has now reached […]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced on Monday, 22nd December, the approval of a 5.8-million-US-dollar project, financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), aimed at tackling environmental degradation and advancing sustainable development in Libya’s Ubari Lakes basin. The five-year initiative, to be implemented in collaboration with Libya’s Ministry of Environment, will prioritise reversing land […]
