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Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa is the easternmost extension of the African continent. The region has a long history of conflicts and reccurent droughts.

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Dokumentation Ein Land als Beute - Korruption in Südafrika

AfricaLink on Air – 07 June 2022

Gupta brothers extradition intensified +++Ramphosa's missing cash mystery+++Uganda's mother-to-child HIV transmission
SocietyJune 7, 202229:57 min
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Somalia's new president promises peace

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud faces a slew of challenges, ranging from severe famine to Islamist militants.
PoliticsMay 17, 2022
Dürrekatastrophe in Ostafrika

The devastating impact of drought in Kenya

At least 3.5 million people in Kenya are affected by a severe drought and are in need of drinking water.
ClimateMay 12, 202202:23 min
Kenia | Dürre trifft Kinder am stärksten

Kenya's drought hits children the hardest

The drought in Kenya threatens the survival of Turkana communities. Many children suffer from malnutrition.
PoliticsApril 27, 202201:51 min
A trader sells fruits at a market in Mogadishu

Somalia at risk of looming famine, UN agencies warn

Officials say an ongoing drought in the country is the worst in a decade.
Food SecurityApril 12, 2022
Villagers attend a theater play in rural Kenya

Can theater bring change?

In rural Kenya, a theater troupe moves from village to village to help people find solutions to the climate crisis.
Nature and EnvironmentApril 6, 202207:06 min
An emaciated cow lying on the ground in Kenya

East Africa faces hunger crisis

Aid organizations are warning of a catastrophe in East Africa if urgent action is not taken against looming starvation.
Food SecurityMarch 31, 2022
Yme Jibu customers drawing water from faucets at wells in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo

Congo: Delivering sustainable water supply to Goma

Businessman Jack Kahorha's company sells fresh drinking water to local communities and turns over $400,000 every year.
BusinessNovember 23, 2021
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Fruitful farming amid droughts

Farmer Gabriel Mwangi Kariuki knows how to use his greenhouse to the fullest.
Nature and EnvironmentOctober 29, 202101:20 min
Madagaskar Antananarivo | Nahrung für Straßenkinder

Madagascar hunger crisis

Hundreds of thousands of people in southern Madagascar are facing hunger and drought.
Human RightsOctober 27, 202106:28 min
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Drought devastates northern Kenya

2 million Kenyans face severe drought, with many at risk of starvation as a crippling drought stalks northern counties.
Food SecurityOctober 1, 202102:08 min
Südafrika

North Africa wildfires reinforce IPPC findings

Climate change experts in Africa welcome change of tone in IPPC report.
Nature and EnvironmentAugust 12, 2021
A child carrying a toddler along a dusty road in Madagascar

Madagascar faces devastating drought

Madagascar's worst drought in 40 years has left hundreds of thousands of people fighting for survival.
CatastropheAugust 11, 2021
Climare activist Hilda Nakabuye

Ugandan climate activist Hilda Nakabuye

Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, a 24-year-old Ugandan student, has been protesting in Kampala since 2017 when she realized climate change was behind the droughts affecting her grandmother's ability to grow food. Founder of Fridays For Future Uganda, Nakabuye wants to bring more racial diversity to the global climate movement and has so far convinced tens of thousands of young East Africans to join her.
Nature and EnvironmentJuly 22, 202110:30 min
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Ghana is running out of time to reverse desertification

While the government promises measures, young people are seeking collective action to reverse desertification.
Nature and EnvironmentJune 17, 202102:05 min
A member of the NGO Action Contre la Faim gives drinking water to an infant during a malnutrition screening session in the Municipality of Ifotaka, in southern Madagascar

African countries confront drought crisis

While Madagascar struggles to tackle a looming famine, Zimbabwe has high hopes for sustainable agriculture.
Nature and EnvironmentMay 7, 2021
A man touches the parched ground

Zimbabwe's drought cripples rural communities

An economic downturn and prolonged drought have led to a food crisis in Zimbabwe. Half the population — around 8 million people — don't have enough to eat, according to the UN. That's forced many desperate families to forage for tree roots and insects.
Nature and EnvironmentFebruary 12, 202006:22 min
A woman holds her baby and pulls cattle along a field

Women bear the brunt of Zimbabwe's drought

Lucy Beck from Care International explains why Zimbabwe's women are disproportionately affected by the food crisis.
Human RightsFebruary 12, 202003:48 min
Three people fend off a swarm of locusts in Kenya

Billions of locusts swarm over East Africa

A locust invasion through Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has left crops devastated.
Nature and EnvironmentJanuary 24, 2020
Nigeria Blick auf Lagos

World in Progress: African megacities & climate change

African cities are most vulnerable to climate change, even though they are least responsible for it.
Nature and EnvironmentDecember 11, 201917:00 min
Minky Sithole and her family fetch water

World in Progress: Living with HIV in Eswatini

How Minky Sithole in eSwatini faces makes the best of her life despite her HIV infection and many other challenges.
HealthNovember 27, 201907:37 min
Gambia Ex-Präsident Yahya Jammeh

AfricaLink on Air – 22 October 2019

Gambia’s former defense minister admits killing critics of Jammeh +++ Drought and conflict displaces 300,000 in Somalia
PoliticsOctober 22, 201929:58 min
people survey the damage after mudslides in Regent, east of Freetown, Sierra Leone in 2017

'We are not alone' in fighting climate change

Over 90 mayors of the world's biggest cities have signed a Global Green New Deal in Copenhagen this week.
Nature and EnvironmentOctober 11, 2019
A young girl in the village of Lasdenkeyre in Ethiopia's Somali region with her goats

Ethiopia's Somali Region faces chronic drought

Pastoral communities say they fear for the future of their livelihoods as experts blame climate change.
SocietySeptember 23, 2019
A woman standing in front of dead animals

World in Progress: Feeling the heat

As the world gears up for a global climate strike, we hear from people who are already feeling the heat.
Nature and EnvironmentSeptember 18, 201929:59 min
A carcass of a dead goat lies in the desert in a drought-stricken area near Bandar Beyla in Somalia

World in Progress: Somalia's climate refugees

Andrew Wasike went to talk to Somalis who say climate change has forced them out of their homes.
Nature and EnvironmentSeptember 18, 201906:15 min
An engineer inspecting a weather poll station

Using data to prevent drought

Climate change will hit Africa particularly hard. Researchers are preparing for this scenario, with help from Germany.
Nature and EnvironmentAugust 1, 2019
Starker Regen verursacht Überschwemmungen in der südchinesischen Stadt Zhuhai

World in Progress: Taking up the challenge

We hear from China's sponge cities, check in with New Mexico's Rio Grande river and learn how bikes can change lives.
Nature and EnvironmentJuly 24, 201929:59 min
Abiy Ahmed

Coup bid prompts mass arrests in Ethiopia

Arrests made in Ethiopia after coup bid Amhara region last weekend
PoliticsJune 27, 2019
Bildergalerie Kongo Sapeurs

AfricaLink on Air - 15 May 2019

International Day of Family: Polygamy in Africa +++ Namibia gripped by the worst drought in decades
May 15, 201930:00 min
Cape Town

Cape Town recovers from tourism drought

One year after Cape Town's water crisis, tourists are slowly coming back to South Africa's "Mother City."
Nature and EnvironmentMarch 21, 2019
Ariel view of Mozambique showing submerged homes

Cyclone Idai: Death toll 'could reach 1,000'

Mozambique's president has spoken of flying over submerged villages and seeing bodies floating in the floodwaters.
PoliticsMarch 18, 2019
Satellite of Cyclone Idai

Scores dead in southeast Africa cyclone

UN agencies are aiding the rescue effort after tens of thousands were hit by floods in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
CatastropheMarch 16, 2019
A man sorting through cocoa beans

In Ghana, farmers try to boost ailing cocoa production

Cocoa production has been plummeting in Ghana for years. Farmers are now trying to boost yields of the precious pods.
Nature and EnvironmentFebruary 12, 2019
Sign reading Nyaitenga Small Holder Irrigation Scheme

Zimbabwe's farmers set hopes on irrigation scheme

With food production low after a series of droughts, Zimbabwe's small-holder farmers put their hopes in irrigation.
PoliticsDecember 8, 2018
Half a dozen fish lie dead on a metal plate

Somalia's seafood switch

As the climate warms, people in Somalia are beginning to develop a taste for fish instead of red meat.
Nature and EnvironmentOctober 4, 201804:21 min
Three young refugees look out of their tent at a camp in northern Cameroon

'Over ten million people still need assistance'

UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner says the international community must continue to help the Lake Chad region.
PoliticsSeptember 3, 2018
Spanien Balearen Menorca | Cala Galdana, schwebender Wasserhahn

Water, H2O, source of life

India restores its streams, fish die off in hot rivers and an entrepreneur wants to drag icebergs around the world.
Nature and EnvironmentAugust 9, 201829:59 min
View of Table mountain in Cape Town. Julia Jaki)

South Africa: Cape Town's water crisis

With predictions that Cape Town could completely run out of water by April 2018, tough restrictions are in place.
SocietyJanuary 25, 20186 images
A lush green field planted with corn and a rain storm in the sky with dark clouds and mountains in the distance.

Uganda: Is it still Africa's bread-basket?

Uganda is known as Africa's bread basket. But the influx of refugees and last year's drought have tested its capacities.
SocietyOctober 20, 2017
Afrika Kenia Dürre

Kenya: Drought is good for business

Drought and greed in Kenya have meant that children are going without food.
SocietyOctober 19, 2017
A malnourished child in Mogadishu

'Strategic patience'

Somalia is still on the verge of famine, says Peter de Clercq, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia.
PoliticsOctober 16, 2017
A woman in a refugee camp in Mogadishu (photo: DW/S. Petersmann)

Rebuilding Somalia

Somalians have to find their own solutions, says Michael Keating, the UN's Special Representative for Somalia.
PoliticsOctober 16, 2017
A dry landscape in Kenya with a tree in the foreground

Kenya drought: Different forms of aid provide relief

Rather than providing food handouts, the focus has shifted to using local resources and boosting the regional economy.
SocietyOctober 4, 2017
Somali women in line to receive food handouts (photo: picture alliance/AP Photo/F. A. Warsameh)

Staggering food crises

Over hundred million people go hungry with some on the brink of famine, according to the United Nations.
PoliticsSeptember 27, 2017
A Kenyan man picking flowers that are exported to Europe

Kenya's elections: economy a non-issue

Although there are pressing economic issues in Kenya, they will not play an important part in the election’s outcome.
PoliticsAugust 8, 2017
Two boys walk on sun-parched earth

Will climate change turn the Sahel green?

As the world gets warmer, rains are increasing in the Sahel region. This could be a good thing or a disaster.
PoliticsJuly 17, 2017
Refugess in Ethiopia

Ethiopia is running out of food aid

Nearly 16 million people need urgent assistance as drought continues to parch the breadth of the Horn of Africa.
SocietyJune 10, 2017
Muhammadu Buhari Nigeria

AfricaLink on Air 29 May 2017

Nigerians express discontent as Buhari marks two years in office+++Zuma faces more political troubles
PoliticsMay 29, 201729:57 min
Somalia Piraten

AfricaLink on Air: 24 May 2017

Cameroon and Nigeria join in the fight against piracy+++Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom is elected the new WHO boss
PoliticsMay 24, 201730:00 min