Gum arabic from Africa’s acacia trees in the Sahel is used in hundreds of products: What’s worth knowing

Sudan accounts for about 70% of global gum arabic exports

Over 50 million people may be food insecure in eastern Africa, warns WFP

Sudan (17.7 million), Ethiopia (15.8 million people) and South Sudan (5.7 million) most concerning  

A new republic learns

Radio>> Civic Rights • South Sudan

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Acute food insecurity: 4 African countries remain at highest concern level

Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan and Sudan remain at the highest level of concern, finds report by FAO, WFP

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War-like climate

Warming exacerbates conflict in Africa

A new generation

Radio>> Politics • North Darfur

Curtain raiser

Ways to prevent skin ulcers

Textbook cheats

Publishing>> Education • South Sudan/The UK

Guns are too large

Chad’s first dengue fever outbreak: What you should know

Chad doesn’t have necessary public health preparedness and response capacities, so the risk is high

Online Know the pastoralists

The official bully

Newspaper>>Fuel Subsidies • Sudan

Solar, wind can break Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam deadlock

Water, Africa’s Gold: One crisis too many

Africa is caught in a vortex of poverty, water and disease

Land for ideology swap

Geopolitics, a mineral-rich disputed territory, Egypt-Sudan ties and the fall of Morsi

Experts give them a miss

World’s last male northern white rhino placed under armed guard

40-year-old Sudan is guarded 24 hours by rangers at Ol Pejeta in Kenya

UN to cut food supplies to African refugees

The drastic cut will affect 800,000 people in the African continent

Wildlife on the move

Darfur displaced demand justice

Goat plague hits Kenya