Crying fowl

Comics workshop

There's a different way comics -- a mixed narrative form that uses text and images, what American cartoonist Art Spiegelmann called 'comix' -- …

Paradise lost

Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than income

Representing poverty as a well-defined objective condition focuses attention on symptoms and risks diverting attention away from underlying …

Cyclone Idai batters southern Africa; 120 dead, many more missing

Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi affected in the ‘worst disaster to hit the region’

African countries launch Renewable Energy Initiative in Paris

AREI aims to achieve 10 GW of new renewable installation by 2020, and expand the generation capacity to 300 GW by 2030

UNITED NATIONS

MOZAMBIQUE

195% more Africans affected due to extreme weather events in 2019

Extreme events are also predicted for the first half of 2020 in the continent

Africa Climate Week: Cyclone Idai highlights urgent need of climate finance

The cyclone is already being touted as one of the worst natural disasters in the southern hemisphere

This coastal village in Mozambique now at the mercy of Chinese mining company

Local residents want the government to probe into company's operations and negotiate compensation for irresponsible sand mining

Zimbabwe

MOZAMBIQUE

News snippets

Lion hunting only makes sense if it's part of a package of interventions

New research from Zambia's Luangwa Valley identifies reforms needed for lion trophy hunting

Flourishing unaided

The AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating with five million new cases reported in 2001

Environmentalists petition Obama to impose sanctions on Mozambique

African country is facing allegations of colluding with poachers, resulting in killing of thousands of elephants and rhinos

Poor access to healthcare hits HIV eradication goal

UNICEF says its global goal of reducing new HIV infections in children by 90 per cent between 2009 and 2015 is still out of reach

World Bank supports Mozambique’s development project

The project aims to promote tourism, reduce poverty

Promising anti-malaria vaccine tested

EU casts its net wider

New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected

While many children who are HIV-exposed and also HIV-uninfected are growing and developing well, some face greater risks

Climate change impacts on Africa to be substantially greater than rest of the world

Sea-level rise, food scarcity are major worries; even after strong adaptation efforts there will be further loss and damage in the continent, …

Three African regions at high risk from climate change

Uncertainties in assessing climate change impacts and lack of data is a cause of worry for experts

Healing the battle scars