Scientists scale up research on indigenous African livestock to improve output, food security and climate resilience
ILRI Director General Appolinaire Djikeng said that the initiative would include measuring methane from 3,000 cows and production traits in five African countries using advanced laser detectors, and mobile apps, linked to existing data on 9,000 cows.
New report sounds alarm over how Africa is forced into painful trade-offs for climate action
The report calls on development actors to provide climate finance as grants and additional resources, not as loans that keep African countries trapped in a cycle of debt, but for greater support for debt cancellation to free up government funds for climate action.
Sudan: Landslide kills more than 1,000 people in single village Central Darfur’s Marrah Mountains
Hundreds of people die every year in seasonal rains that run from July to October. Last year’s heavy rainfall caused the collapse of a dam in the eastern Red Sea Province, killing at least 30 people, according to the UN.
