Natural disaster
Nigeria oil giant Shell taken to Court
Nigerian oil giant shell has been taken in a Dutch court to face charges of destroying livelihoods in Nigerian villages in the Niger Delta...
African countries faced with food Insecurity
According to analysis published on Wednesday three-quarters of African countries and other Arab nations are at an extreme risk of a food crisis.
On a...
Japan tests food, seawater for radiation
Japanese officials' concerns over food contamination expanded beyond the country's borders Tuesday as tests detected radiation in ocean water offshore.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power...
Japan rebuild expected to last five years
Japan may need up to five years to rebuild from the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that has caused up to $235bn (£145bn) of damage,...
Smoke fumes from 3rd Japanese nuke reactor
Gray smoke spewed Monday out of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's No. 3 reactor, a setback that came despite fervent efforts to prevent...
Fear of rising radiation levels grips Japan
An escalating crisis at a nuclear power plant compounded the human devastation in Japan Tuesday.
As the death toll from the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and the...
Travelers stranded by Japanese earthquake
The largest earthquake in Japan’s history hit the country’s northeast today, triggering tsunamis that have been felt as far as Hawaii and the west...
Japan faces post-tsunami nuclear crisis
Rescue workers used chain saws and hand picks Monday to dig out bodies in Japan's devastated coastal towns, as Asia's richest nation faced a...
Burundi: Lightning and torrential rains kill several children
Several school going children have been killed after lightning struck the provinces of Karuzi and Bubanza in Burundi. Torrential rains and lightning incidents have...
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia brace for more floods
Flood alerts have been issued across the Southern Africa region as heavy rains continue to pound the region. The rains have claimed more than...
Haiti’s invincible progress a year after disaster
In the year since a powerful earthquake struck Haiti, an unprecedented international effort has mobilized to bring relief to the country while confronting obstacles...
The Deepwater Horizon Spill and its aftermath
A seemingly endless flow of oil from under the sea is ominously approaching the American coastlines from Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana to Pensacola, Florida --...
South Africa rocked by series of earthquakes
Four earthquakes hit South Africa on Thursday but no huge damages were
recorded, the country’s seismology unit has said.
Areas affected include Gauteng, the North...
Uganda: Landslide hit schools relocated to market-place
Over 1000 students who had stopped going to school, due to deadly landslides
that hit three eastern Uganda villages, have today resumed classes in
a market...
Madagascar: Death toll rises after tropical cyclone
Tropical cyclone Hubert, which struck Madagascar last week, killed at least 36 and injured more than 85 000 people according to latest estimates. The...
Half a million Ugandans at risk of landslides
500,000 people in Uganda are at a risk of being hit by landslides and floods, the government has said today.
"So far 300,000 people in...
Uganda: 60 school children feared dead
Some 60 school children in Uganda are feared to be among those who perished in a landslide accident which occurred on Monday night in...
Caribbean: Honing tsunami warning system
Frequent Caribbean earthquakes and concern about tsunamis prompted the island nations, the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and neighbors, including the United States, to...
Africans reach out in solidarity with Haiti
In the broad international mobilization to help the stricken people of Haiti, Africa is not lagging behind. Government officials, religious leaders, students, artists and...
Haiti: SOS via SMS
Another earthquake shook Haiti Wednesday morning after the disastrous January 12 earthquake that has left at least 75 000 people dead. This comes in...
Haiti: Congo joins Senegal in rare poor-help-poor diplomacy
A row has ensued over the kind gesture of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the victims of Haiti’s earthquake devastation. While many...
Tools to better understand earthquakes
Today, only the generosity of nations can help the tragic victims of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 12. But...
Haiti: United States to meet UN request for assistance
A sum of $562 million is required to help over three million desolate Haitians survive for the next six months, the United Nations humanitarian...
Seychelles to join 28 countries for Indian ocean-wide tsunami drill set for 14th october 2009
Seychelles will join over 28 other countries around the Indian Ocean Rim as a participant in a mock tsunami scenario during 14 October 2009....
East African crisis: Cold feet from the West and an unrelenting weather
Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti ... East Africa is currently experiencing a severe drought that is threatening, according to the UN...
Ghana and West Africa to brace for mega drought
Results of studies carried out on Lake Bosumtwi in southern Ghana are far from comforting. The West African nation has been advised to...
Namibia and Zambia get disaster warnings
As the water level in the upper Zambezi River continues to climb past its highest levels ever, destroying crops and road networks, disaster officials...
Mozambique: Many killed as rains threaten population
Mozambique has witnessed a season's amount of rain in a week which has caused flooding, killed 26 people and left thousands of others homeless....
Mudslides surprise Kenyans killing several
No fewer than 14 people died in massive landslides in West Pokot District of western Kenya as rains pounded central and western parts of...
Several killed and hundreds buried in Cairo rockslide
Families on the outskirts of Cairo were in tears on Saturday after massive rocks from the towering Muqattam hills fell upon their homes, leaving...