DTE Coverage of COM2024

Week-long annual gathering of African finance ministers in Zimbabwe found continent trades more with outside world than with itself

COM2024: African ministers express worry after report shows poor intra-African trade

Regional integration remains critical in African efforts to achieve productive and sustainable development

COM2024: Africa’s massive debt hurdle for development, ministers call for global financial architecture overhaul

Debt interest payments taking away large portion of revenue that could help achieve Sustainable Development Goals

COM2024: Climate financing hurdles take centrestage at African economic ministers’ conference

Some of the home-grown financing solutions that some African countries have already started embracing include carbon trading

Climate crisis: Drought causes mass elephant deaths in Zimbabwe game reserve

Drought conditions had earlier also prompted a mass-movement of elephants from Hwange into neighbouring Botswana in a search for water, food

Climate impact in Zimbabwe: Elephants, other wildlife begin early mass migration to escape drought conditions

Poor rains in preceding rainy season, water sources ran dry in August

Run-up to COP27: ­Zimbabweans count loss and damage as climate change hits country hard

Frequency of droughts has also increased to about 1 in 3 years from 1 per decade 

‘Insatiable demand from the East, greed & lack of political will is enabling poaching across Africa’

Wildlife veterinarian Dave Cooper talks about poaching, effect of climate change and his experience with conservation 

Model shift: Climate change forces Zimbabwe to finally take up irrigation

Irrigation has remained largely alien to Zimbabwe since rains were dependable; but that is no longer the case

Measles: Zimbabwe launches awareness campaign to fight vaccine hesitancy

This follows a sharp uptick in caseload and deaths  

World Elephant Day: Why conservation efforts in Africa evoke opposing reactions

Uneven distribution of the jumbos across the continent has led to increase in human-wildlife conflict and loss of habitat