Water: Kenyans in semi-arid regions turn to sand dams on seasonal rivers to trap surface runoff
Many people in Kenya’s dry southeastern region rely on boreholes and rivers for water, but many boreholes produce saline water and permanent rivers are few and far for most people. Earth dams are another source, but they’re also few and require regular desilting.
Haiti in-depth 2: Haitian solution doesn’t mean we can’t get support, we know some of our limitations
Gang members sit together on the street after an address to the media in Port-au-Prince by former police officer turned gang leader Jimmy Chérizier, on March 11, 2024.
Haiti in-depth: A transition beset by challenges, uncertainty, agenda and tone set by gangs
Complicating matters is the fact that backing the deployment of thousands of foreign security forces to help quell the gangs is a prerequisite for membership on the council – a plan drawn up last week by the regional Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in conjunction with US officials, Haiti’s main political groups, and key members of Haitian civil society and the diaspora.
In Uganda, bamboo has government’s backing as a crop with real growth potential
This East African country is seeing growing interest in bamboo, a perennial plant cultivated in many parts of the world. It can be burned for fuel in rural communities, taking pressure off dwindling forest reserves of eucalyptus and other natural resources. It’s a hardy plant that can grow almost anywhere. And businesses can turn it into products ranging from furniture to toothpicks.
Explainer: How UN food security agency uses deaths and malnutrition to declare famine
In the 21st century, climate-related famines have largely been averted thanks to an innovative tool to track acute hunger, developed during the crisis in Somalia in 2004 by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and now used by humanitarian agencies worldwide. This initiative is called the Integrated Security Phase Classification or IPC.
How Kenyan activists embarked on mission to end gender-based violence as attacks on women spike
Kenya’s Demographic and Health Survey of 2023 found that more than 11 million women – or 20 per cent of the population – have experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner during their lives, with 2.8 million of those women having experienced this type of violence in the last 12 months.
Heat is on: Kenyan women among others whose plight is to be addressed in food supply chain
Women are less able to adapt to heat than men, explains Kathy Baughman McLeod, chief executive of Climate Resilience. In Pakistan, hot and crowded homes cause sleepless nights for all, but cultural norms require women to stay indoors, while men can seek cooler conditions outside.
In Gaza, Palestinians are forced to eat grass because ‘If we aren’t killed, we will die of hunger’
The UN has been unable to deliver food aid to the north since January 23, with Israeli authorities continuing to deny access to UN aid convoys, which their troops have fired on. In late February, the World Food Programme and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, suspended aid delivery in the north, saying it had become impossible to operate safely.
Junk food addiction: How Big Food hooks you just as cigarettes and cocaine trigger cravings
Along with speed, “addiction is also deeply enmeshed with memory and the memories we create for food are typically stronger and longer lasting than any other substance. Childhood memories of food can wield an uncanny power over our eating habits for the rest of our lives.”
Why in Senegal’s capital Nicaragua is popular flight path for illegal migrants headed for US
US authorities arrested Senegalese migrants 20,231 times for crossing the border illegally from July to December. That’s a 10-fold increase from 2,049 arrests during the same period of 2022, according to US Customs and Border Protection. Many like Ba cross in remote deserts of western Arizona and California.
