Villagers go about their business in a flooded market center in Kisumu, about 400 kilometers west of the capital Nairobi in Kenya. © EPA/Jacob Wire Day Zero has arrived. Well, almost. On April 12, 2018, Cape Town came close to experiencing the dreaded “Day Zero”, the day when water would no longer flow through the […]
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As part of ASPA’s Africa Week at Sciences Po Paris, Merem Tahar and Alain Richard Donwahi led a conference on the impact of desertification on women in Africa. The former is an environmental activist for the indigenous Toubou community (Chad) and a private law student at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne. At the age of
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On May 10, Pretoria once again appealed to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) “to put an end to the Israeli military operation in Gaza”, which it considers to be aggravating the “genocide” already underway there. This South African complaint comes just a few days after the organization of “the first world anti-apartheid conference for
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Planned cities are becoming increasingly common on the African continent, especially since 2000. Not that there weren’t any before this date – Yamoussoukro and Nouakchott are proof of the opposite – but simply that more than half of all planned cities recorded in Africa between 1960 and the present day have emerged since the turn