An estimated 4 million people, many of them small subsistence farmers, in over a dozen countries in West and Central Africa that have seen their crops decimated by unusually heavy flooding. In northern Cameroon, for example, the latest floods have destroyed the harvest for this season, while nearly 1 million hectares of farmland across the […]
The raging civil war in Libya and the presence of extremist fighters in the vicinity of historical sites are posing a serious danger to the North African Country’s World Heritage Sites, says the UNESCO. The UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has placed five World Heritage sites of Libya on the List of World Heritage in Danger […]
The American government and Senegal on Monday signed a cooperation agreement to ease the deployment of American troops to the West African nation to counter humanitarian crises, natural disasters or terrorist attacks. The accord will give US troops access to areas in Senegal, such as airports and military installations, in order to respond to security […]
