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Jun 6, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Karen King |Boureima Balima |Abdel-Kader Mazou |Claire Watt
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As a warm and dry country, South Africa has always been a climate stressed country. Rainfall is low compared to global averages, and the impacts of El Niño and La Niña often exacerbate prevailing conditions. Add to this the impacts of climate change, however, and the country’s current and future climatic concerns become even more acute.
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May 21, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Mohan Singh |Prem L. Bhalla |Boureima Balima |Abdel-Kader Mazou
Australia’s vital agriculture sector will be hit hard by steadily rising global temperatures. Our climate is already prone to droughts and floods. Climate change is expected to supercharge this, causing sudden flash droughts, changing rainfall patterns and intense flooding rains. Farm profits fell 23% in the 20 years to 2020, and the trend is expected to continue. Image source: Johannes Plenio from PexelsUnchecked, climate change will make it harder to produce food on a large scale.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Terena Chetty |Jabulile Mbatha |Boureima Balima |Abdel-Kader Mazou
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Climate change refers to changes in weather patterns that fundamentally affect the world both regionally and on a global scale. Throughout history, such changes have taken place naturally, sometimes due to cataclysmic events such as meteor impacts on the surface of the Earth.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Boureima Balima |Abdel-Kader Mazou
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Idrees Ali |Abdel-Kader Mazou |Nellie Peyton |Angus MacSwan
NIAMEY (Reuters) - The United States intends to resume security and development cooperation with Niger provided it takes steps to restore democracy, a U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday after meeting the military leaders who took power in a coup in...
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
1africafocus.com | Abdel-Kader Mazou |Deborah Kyvrikosaios
A growing market of addiction to synthetic opioids estimated at over $1 billion has been identified as the fastest-growing challenge in Nigeria’s drug crisis, apart from cocaine and heroin trafficking. The emerging challenge is fuelled by the activities of organised crime syndicates that specialise in the production, use and trafficking of drugs, a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and National Institute for Security Studies (NISS).
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
timeslive.co.za | Abdel-Kader Mazou |Moussa Aksar
France's ambassador to Niger arrived in Paris on Wednesday, around a month after the military junta ordered his expulsion and days after President Emmanuel Macron said the diplomat would be pulled out and French troops withdrawn. Relations between Niger and France, its former colonial ruler which maintained a military presence in the country to help fight Islamist insurgents, have broken down since army officers seized power in Niamey in July.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
msn.com | Abdel-Kader Mazou |Moussa Aksar
Royal weddings that defined the course of European historyQueen Victoria, renowned for her lengthy reign of 64 years, dedicated a significant portion of her rule to cultivating alliances with influential European states. This endeavor involved marrying her numerous children and grandchildren into other royal families across the continent.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
1africafocus.com | Abdel-Kader Mazou |Sofia Christensen |Alex Richardson
NIAMEY, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Hundreds of protesters have been camping outside a French military base in Niger’s capital Niamey for the past six days to demand the troops’ departure, the latest sign of swelling anti-French sentiment among supporters of a military coup in July. The demonstration started last Saturday, around five weeks after soldiers toppled President Mohamed Bazoum and seized power in a coup that has been widely condemned abroad but celebrated by many at home.
