Tag : Global development

West Africa facing food crisis as coronavirus spreads

Pandemic adds to jihadi and climate change threats to present ‘immense challenge’ for regionCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than 43 million people in west Africa are likely to be in urgent need of food assistance in t...

'People are more scared of hunger': coronavirus is just one more threat in Nigeria

The pandemic has left many people in Orile, Lagos state, struggling for survival – and compounded the risks of the area’s heavily polluted air and water supplyAll photographs by Nurudeen OlugbadeFor Nurudeen Olugbade taking photographs of life in Ori...

Kenya's pastoralists face hunger and conflict as locust plague continues

As herds are devastated and crops destroyed across east Africa, there are fears of violence as competition for grazing increasesTiampati Leletit had heard tales of massive desert locust swarms darkening Kenya’s horizon. But when they hit his farm the...

Africa facing a quarter of a billion coronavirus cases, WHO predicts

But continent will have fewer deaths than Europe and US because of its younger population and other lifestyle factorsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNearly a quarter of a billion people across 47 African countries will cat...