Articles for Southern Africa

Southern Africa’s liberation movements have lost their political mojo
3 days, 18 hours ago

Southern Africa’s liberation movements have lost their political mojo

Al Jazeera  

Electoral support for former freedom fighters is dwindling across the region due to their inability to deliver ethical and effective governance after decades in power. On December 3, the Electoral Commission of Namibia announced that Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of the ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation party, has emerged victorious in the disputed presidential election conducted from November 27 to 30. …

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Namibia votes and could have its first female leader. But election upsets have shaken the region
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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Namibia votes and could have its first female leader. But election upsets have shaken the region

Associated Press  

WINDHOEK, Namibia — A woman who joined Namibia’s underground independence movement in the 1970s is a strong contender to become its first female leader as the country voted Wednesday in a presidential election. But SWAPO, which has governed the southern African country and held the presidency for 34 years since independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990, faces growing frustration …

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Namibia votes and could have its first female leader. But election upsets have shaken the region
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Namibia votes and could have its first female leader. But election upsets have shaken the region

LA Times  

Namibia’s vice president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, raises her fist as she casts her vote in a presidential election in Windhoek, Namibia, on Wednesday. A woman who joined Namibia’s underground independence movement in the 1970s is a strong contender to become its first female leader as the country voted Wednesday in a presidential election. But SWAPO, which has governed the southern African …

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Russia woos Namibia to mine uranium, sparking water safety fears
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Russia woos Namibia to mine uranium, sparking water safety fears

Al Jazeera  

Russian company Rosatom is trying to drill for uranium in Namibia. “Should uranium mining be allowed, it could render the water in the southeastern region of Namibia unfit for human and animal consumption, effectively bringing agriculture to a total and permanent standstill in the area,” said former Namibia Agricultural Union president, Piet Gouws, speaking to the Namibian Sun in 2022. …

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Why post-election violence in Mozambique is a concern for Southern Africa
1 month, 1 week ago

Why post-election violence in Mozambique is a concern for Southern Africa

Associated Press  

JOHANNESBURG — A deepening political and social crisis in Mozambique will top the agenda of a regional summit this week called after the result of Oct. 9 elections led to weeks of violent protests and prompted the losing candidate to dispute the outcome. In May, the ruling party in South Africa lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since …

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Why post-election violence in Mozambique is a concern for Southern Africa
1 month, 1 week ago

Why post-election violence in Mozambique is a concern for Southern Africa

The Independent  

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Prince Harry meets with ill children at WellChild awards: Duke is filmed chatting with youngsters as he makes rare visit to the UK without Meghan while King is in Scotland
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Prince Harry meets with ill children at WellChild awards: Duke is filmed chatting with youngsters as he makes rare visit to the UK without Meghan while King is in Scotland

Daily Mail  

Prince Harry was pictured chatting with ill children and their parents today at the WellChild awards in London during a rare visit to the UK without Meghan - with no plans to see his father King Charles who is in Scotland. Prince Harry is in London for WellChild today - but is not expected to see his family in the …

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Prince Harry’s Sentebale organization leading initiative to support young people in Southern Africa
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Prince Harry’s Sentebale organization leading initiative to support young people in Southern Africa

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Prince Harry’s latest philanthropic move will gather world business leaders and philanthropists to work towards fostering prosperity in Southern African communities, specifically focused on young people. In early October, Harry’s charity organization Sentebale, which he co-founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006, will bring together leaders from Google’s charitable arm and several other companies and organizations …

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Prince Harry’s Sentebale organization leading initiative to support young people in Southern Africa
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Prince Harry’s Sentebale organization leading initiative to support young people in Southern Africa

The Independent  

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Why is Namibia culling elephants and hippos for meat?
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Why is Namibia culling elephants and hippos for meat?

Al Jazeera  

The country is facing its worst drought in decades and people are going hungry, officials say. More than 700 wild animals, including hippos and elephants, are being culled in Namibia’s game parks to provide meat for the country’s hungry, the government has said, as the arid Southern African region battles its worst drought in 100 years. About 84 percent of …

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Namibia to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and distribute meat to people hit by drought
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Namibia to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and distribute meat to people hit by drought

The Independent  

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This country to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, distribute meat to people — Here’s why
3 months, 3 weeks ago

This country to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, distribute meat to people — Here’s why

Live Mint  

Namibia has announced plans to cull hundreds of wild animals amid a severe drought across southern Africa. The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism has earmarked 723 animals — including 83 elephants, 30 hippos, 100 elands, 50 impala, 100 blue wildebeest and 300 zebras — currently residing in drought-stricken national parks for the grisly project. “This will assist in managing …

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Nearly 68 million people reeling from drought in Southern Africa: Official
4 months ago

Nearly 68 million people reeling from drought in Southern Africa: Official

Al Jazeera  

Head of regional bloc SADC says 17 percent of people across region in need of aid amid climate change-fuelled drought. Tens of millions of people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought, a regional bloc has warned, with a drop in crop and livestock production causing food shortages in several countries. Elias Magosi, executive secretary …

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Southern Africa to expand special tourist visa for easier travel across 5 countries
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Southern Africa to expand special tourist visa for easier travel across 5 countries

Hindustan Times  

Five Southern African countries on Friday committed to expanding the use of a special common visa to allow easier movement of tourists as the region seeks to boost arrivals. Southern Africa to expand special tourist visa for easier travel across 5 countries Officials from Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, countries that make up the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, pledged …

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UN seeks $430 million for drought-hit Zimbabwe, saying millions of people need food and water
7 months, 1 week ago

UN seeks $430 million for drought-hit Zimbabwe, saying millions of people need food and water

Associated Press  

HARARE, Zimbabwe — About half of Zimbabwe’s population urgently needs food and water after the country’s worst drought in four decades, the U.N. humanitarian agency said Thursday as it launched an appeal for $430 million to help those most in need. About 7.6 million of the country’s 15 million people need “lifesaving and life-sustaining” humanitarian assistance, the U.N. Office for …

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Southern Africa to experience cereal shortage
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Southern Africa to experience cereal shortage

China Daily  

FILE PHOTO: A wilted maize crop is seen in Mumijo in the Buhera district east of the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, March 16, 2024. The Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that Southern African countries will experience maize shortages due to the recent El Nino-linked drought that has decimated harvest prospects. The predicted production shortfall is expected to intensify households' food …

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Deadly cholera outbreak hits southern Africa: From transmission to vaccines, here's all you need to know
8 months ago

Deadly cholera outbreak hits southern Africa: From transmission to vaccines, here's all you need to know

Hindustan Times  

Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi are at the epicenter of the deadliest cholera outbreak in southern Africa in at least a decade. “And then in settings like refugee camps, where you have a concentration of people, the water that is being used is highly contaminated.” What is fueling Africa's current cholera outbreaks? There are a host of reasons for the rash …

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Zimbabwe declares drought disaster, the latest in a region where El Nino has left millions hungry
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Zimbabwe declares drought disaster, the latest in a region where El Nino has left millions hungry

Associated Press  

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe declared a state of disaster Wednesday over a devastating drought that’s sweeping across much of southern Africa, with the country’s president saying it needs $2 billion for humanitarian assistance. The declaration was widely expected following similar actions by neighboring Zambia and Malawi, where drought linked to the El Nino weather phenomenon has scorched crops, leaving millions …

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Extreme drought in southern Africa leaves millions hungry
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Extreme drought in southern Africa leaves millions hungry

Associated Press  

MANGWE, Zimbabwe — Delicately and with intense concentration, Zanyiwe Ncube poured her small share of precious golden cooking oil into a plastic bottle at a food aid distribution site deep in rural Zimbabwe. USAID and the United Nations’ World Food Programme aim to help some of the 2.7 million people in rural Zimbabwe threatened with hunger because of the drought …

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Malawi follows Zambia in declaring drought disaster as El Niño brings hunger to southern Africa
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Malawi follows Zambia in declaring drought disaster as El Niño brings hunger to southern Africa

Associated Press  

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The southern African nation of Malawi has declared a state of disaster over drought in 23 of its 28 districts and the president says it urgently needs more than $200 million in humanitarian assistance, less than a month after neighboring Zambia also appealed for help. A third country, Zimbabwe, has The WFP said there were …

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Malawi follows Zambia in declaring drought disaster as El Niño brings hunger to southern Africa
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Malawi follows Zambia in declaring drought disaster as El Niño brings hunger to southern Africa

The Independent  

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Red Sea crisis: Yemen's Houthis target 'US ship Pinocchio' with missiles
9 months, 1 week ago

Red Sea crisis: Yemen's Houthis target 'US ship Pinocchio' with missiles

Firstpost  

Houthis’ Red Sea attacks have disrupted global shipping, forcing firms to re-route to longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa, and stoked fears that the Israel-Hamas war could spread to destabilise the wider Middle East. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels reportedly launched missiles targeting a vessel described as the “US ship Pinocchio” in the Red Sea, as stated by the …

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Fresh from a deadly cholera outbreak, Zambia declares drought a national emergency
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Fresh from a deadly cholera outbreak, Zambia declares drought a national emergency

Associated Press  

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema Thursday declared the country’s debilitating drought a national disaster and emergency, saying it has devastated food production and electricity generation as the nation battles to recover from a recent deadly cholera outbreak. Like some of its neighbors, the southern African country is suffering a severe drought as the El Nino weather pattern worsens …

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Cholera: An overlooked outcome of climate change
10 months ago

Cholera: An overlooked outcome of climate change

Al Jazeera  

Global warming is exacerbating the spread of a disease that should have been consigned to the dust bin of history a long time ago. We have seen repeatedly in different countries and communities climate-related intense tropical storms, heavy rains and flooding which damage or destroy water and sanitation infrastructure and cause untreated sewage to spill into clean water sources, and …

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