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When Cape Town's locals ration water for the day, the region's vineyards are irrigated by irrigation pipes, reflecting the sharp division of the country's precious resource. It has been four years since the tourist capital of South Africa almost ran out, during a drought that caused the city to limp towards a "Day Zero" when all pipes would be emptied. Now the water flows generously, but not for everyone. South Africa is the most unequal country in the world, with race playing a decisive factor, a…

Large parts of the country, stretching from southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya and Somalia, are in the grip of a severe drought that has left 13 million people hungry. Everywhere in these regions, where people support themselves mainly on agro-pastoral activities, the three rainy periods since the end of 2020 have been characterized by low rainfall, exacerbated by a grasshopper invasion that devastated the harvests between 2019 and 2021. "Hornet's population makes up only 4% of the global population,…

The leading charity Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay) on Friday announced a new campaign for the South of Africa, which is facing a severe food shortage and drought. The campaign under the motto "Extend your hand so that humanity will not die" is asking for donations to help Madagascar, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia. The charity said in a statement on Friday that the drought, which began in 2018, and subsequent food shortages have reached…

In Côte d'Ivoire, the federal government has laid the primary stone on a significant building website: the dry port of Ferkessédougou, which will likely be a form of outgrowth of the port of Abidjan, within the far north of the nation, with the purpose of serving Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. Inauguration deliberate, if all goes properly, at the tip of 2023.…