Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes expected during the lean season in drought and conflict-affected areas Key Messages Owing to the favorable 2021 harvest, households in most parts of the region are still consuming own produced staple and continue to experience Minimal (IPC Phase 1) and Stressed (IPC Phase 2) outcomes. Although, in deficit-producing areas of southern Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Malawi, households are experiencing Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes as the lean season has already begun. In drought-affected southern Madagascar, most poor households rely heavily on food assistance and Crisis! (IPC Phase 3!) outcomes are ongoing. Across the region, these outcomes…
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ADM projects, a sustainable label founded by artistic director Ebele Udoh Grant-Ezeronye, has just released its Spring/Summer 2022 wearable art collection. The brand seeks to empower artists and artisans through art, innovated into clothing. At the core of ADM projects, is the improvement of living, of the very talented African artists we work with by exposing their work to the world. The new collection, which symbolizes ‘The Glorious Woman: A Woman Adorned With The Sun, The Moon and The Stars”, is a capsule of robes, shorts, kimonos, with matching headpieces, all featuring eye-catching artwork, highlighting the work of the artist Dimeji A. Each…
Issued on: 06/12/2021 – 17:35 Sudanese police fired tear gas Monday as thousands of protesters rallied against the military-dominated government near the presidential palace in Khartoum. The demonstrators marched from various districts of the capital, many carrying national flags or chanting “No to military rule” and “The army might betray you, but the street will never betray you”.Sudan’s top general, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, seized power, and detained Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on 25th of October but, after international condemnation and mass protests, reinstated him in a deal signed on 21st of November. Critics lambasted the agreement and accused Hamdok of…
A British teenager who was mauled by a crocodile in southern Africa feared she would need to have her foot amputated, and said she felt “very lucky” during an interview from her hospital bed.Amelie Osborn-Smith, 18, was left with her right foot “hanging loose” and a dislocated hip after the attack in the Zambezi River in Zambia while she was taking a break during a white water rafting expedition.In her first interview since waking up from surgery, Osborn-Smith urged people not to let what happened to her put them off being adventurous and taking risks. She said that when the…
Tladi the leopard, born in 2019, has become very well known for close encounters at Botswana’s Mombo Camp. Tladi means “Thunder” but in reality Tladi is quite relaxed. When Mombo closed in March 2020 for Covid Tladi became much more inquisitive about the camp and would wander round peeking into the rooms. On my recent visit to Mombo a few weeks ago I didn’t see Tladi but I saw his mother who successfully hunted a baby warthog and proceeded to feed her latest litter… Photographer Nastasha Mago captured not only the kill but the previous day when Tladi sat peacefully…
It is not too early to start planning your 2022 wedding. You just need to be certain you are sure of the person you’re spending the rest of your life with. Weddings in Africa are a string of events. Your wedding event is not just what happens on the day you get married. A lot of events come together to make up the entire wedding ceremony. In Nigeria, the wedding process starts with the Introduction ceremony. This is the occasion where the families of the groom and bride are formally introduced to one another. It usually takes place at the…
The arrest in July of former president Jacob Zuma in connection with an investigation into widespread corruption sparked an eruption of unrest and violence, mainly in the province of his base, KwaZulu-Natal. Yet the upheaval reflects a broader crisis underpinned by the failures of the African National Congress (ANC) to deliver on the hopes of national liberation, and the neo-liberalization and contradictions of the ANC in power. Soaring levels of unemployment and inequality have been exacerbated by the pandemic and government austerity policies, and in November, municipal election results (where the ANC and official opposition Democratic Alliance under-performed) confirmed widespread…
South African politics have entered a new phase. For the first time since the end of apartheid, the ruling African National Congress vote in municipal elections last month dropped below 50 per cent — a disastrous outcome for the party of Nelson Mandela and an indictment of its performance. Not before time, the ANC’s political monopoly is faltering.True, these were only local elections. For now, the ANC continues to govern the country, though the word “govern” is perhaps too generous for a party that struggles to keep the lights on or curb rampant corruption. At municipal level, several of the…
Senegal’s former World Athletics president Lamine Diack during his corruption trial in France in 2020The disgraced former head of world athletics’ governing body Lamine Diack has died at home in Senegal, aged 88.Diack, who was convicted of corruption last year, was president of World Athletics (formerly the International Association of Athletics Federations, IAAF) from 1999 to 2015.In September 2020, he was found guilty of corruption and money-laundering, linked to the Russian doping scandal.A French court sentenced him to four years in prison, two of them suspended.He was never jailed and allowed to return to Senegal, where he remained under house…
Meet Ghanaian makeup artist, beauty entrepreneur and educator Valerie Lawson, C.E.O of CVL Beauty, who made history with her special Masterclass with M.A.C Cosmetics in the UK. Lawson, who is known for creating distinct looks for her clients, was invited by M.A.C Cosmetics and My Runway Group, a UK-based Community empowerment organization to head a special masterclass at the M.A.C flagship store in Carnaby, London, making her the first makeup artist from Africa to work with the global beauty brand in such a capacity. “I couldn’t believe when I received the email inviting me to collaborate with M.A.C on such…