drought

Over fifty Ethiopians have been confirmed dead from severe drought in the Tigray and Amhara regions. About 46 people died in the town of Yechila...

Kenyan ministers will forgo their salaries for one month in solidarity with people who have been affected by the ongoing drought in parts of the...

Families in the southern Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo are going up to four days without running water as drought dries the dams the city...

Zimbabwe's government said it has secured combined loans of $108 million from the Export-Import Bank of China and Export-Import Bank of India to fix...

Zimbabwe has been hit by a food crisis with more than five million people in dire need of food aid. The United Nations has said...

Ethiopia this year launched an ambitious project to plant 4 billion trees to fight deforestation. It will not only save the environment in Ethiopia, Africa’s...

Officials in South Africa have declared a national disaster following recent drought which has hit the country's southern and western regions.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a US$ 1 million Emergency Humanitarian Assistance to people affected by...

A major support project has been launched by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to end hunger in the Southern African country of Zimbabwe.

Three years of poor rains have triggered a national disaster in Kenya, with 2.6 million people hungry, critical rates of child malnutrition and devastating livestock deaths, the United Nations said as it appealed for $166 million in aid.