Half of cargo handled in Africa and the Middle East is classified as dangerous, a Kenyan shipping official warned at an international shipping parley which ended on Tuesday.
Stopping Africa’s deserts from creeping further into fertile land is the aim of a -million project launched on Monday by the United Nations.
All humanitarian flights from northern Kenya to strife-torn southern Sudan were grounded on Friday after Khartoum imposed a flight ban in the region following escalating fighting between government troops and rebels.
Mutinous soldiers have strengthened their hold on the northern half of Ivory Coast by taking control of a third city, local media reported on Saturday.
FLOODS and mudslides caused by torrential rains in Kenya have killed 46 people and injured eight others in the past two weeks.
The US Agency for International Development has granted Kenya ,2-million to promote economic growth and democracy, following agreements signed here on Monday.
The Zimbabwean army was expected to begin its final withdrawal of troops from Congo on Friday as US President George Bush prepared to meet in New York with key leaders involved in Congo’s four-year-long war.
LARGE development projects like dams and reservoirs around Africa’s mountain areas could trigger earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides, a leading South African geologist said on Tuesday.
Kenya, without donor aid, will enter into heavy domestic borrowing to bridge a four-percent budget deficit.