Kenya Floods Kill 194
Floods and landslides in Kenya have killed nearly 200 people, displaced 100,000 and strained critical infrastructure, with unprecedentedly high water levels at two dams forcing the evacuation of villagers at risk, officials said on Wednesday.
The heavy rain, which accelerated in mid-April, is expected to continue in already hard-hit areas in the coming weeks, the Kenya Meteorological Department said in its most recent forecast. May...
SA, Mozambique and Malawi to benefit from Flanders’ grant
Three African countries are going to receive €1 million from the Government of Flanders, a region in Belgium. The money will support five projects in South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi aimed at transition towards climate resilient and low-carbon development.
The Birdlife South Africa and South South North organisations in South Africa have been selected to implement two projects. The main goals are to support ecosystem-based...
Scientists Just Spotted an ‘Impossible’ Black Hole 70 Times the Size of Our Sun
Astronomers have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way so huge that it challenges existing models of how stars evolve, researchers said Thursday.
LB-1 is 15,000 light years from Earth and has a mass 70 times greater than the Sun, according to the journal Nature.
The Milky Way is estimated to contain 100 million stellar black holes but LB-1 is twice as massive as anything scientists...
Heavy Rains Force people to use buckets to save relatives’ graves flooded with rainwater
ZIMBABWE - Heavy rains continue wreaking havoc all around the central city of Gweru in Zimbabwe.
Tonnes of dirty water have flooded the local cemeteries forcing people to take dire measures in a bid to save what was left from their relatives’ graves. While some of them reportedly dewater the pits with buckets others have to use bare hands as no equipment was left idle.
The...
38 killed in attacks on Mali villages
Bamako – Thirty-eight people were killed and many others wounded in attacks on two ethnic Dogon villages in central Mali, the government said on Tuesday, in the latest in a cycle of violence in the volatile Sahel country.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for Monday's attacks, but Mali has seen a spate of massacres this year between ethnic Dogon and Fulani communities.
"The terrorist attacks on...
