Water Scarcity

By Njiraini MuchiraMore than 10 million people in Eastern African are at the risk of starving, amid fears that the delay in the onset of the long rains will worsen the current food shortage and cause disease outbreaks. Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia an…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The village of Sandhamn on Sandön in the Stockholm archipelago Getty After relatively little snow and rainfall for over two years, Sweden, a country with 100,000 lakes, is tinder dry. Forest f…

By Dele Sobowale A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.Alexis De Tocqueville, 1805-1859. It is not just a man who cannot suddenly alter his mind-set as the need arises. Thousands of old men, especially, Nigerian politicians, irrespect…

Introduction The last ten years have seen forms of political disruption within Egypt that were virtually unimaginable a decade agofrom the 2011 protest uprisings; the 2012 election of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi to the Egyptian presidency; th…

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analysisBy Ana Rita Sequeira, Halina Kobryn, Lário L. M. Herculano, Mark P McHenry and Ryan AdmiraalThe United Nations reports that water scarcity affects more than 40% of the global population. Just over a third of people don't have access to safely managed …