Causes of Africa's food crisis

An official from the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), Nicholas Crawford, and Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, a pan-Africanist and Director of Justice Africa, debate what is causing Africa's deepening food crisis and what the solutions might be.

Read the debate here.

Development in Africa

Good news for Africa...read the article on Africa's economic outlook...click here.

Click here to read the report from the World Bank. (pdf file)

Flooding in Africa

Flooding all over Africa is causing death and destruction of property...the links below give more details as to the cause and effects:













See the video feed below for news clips of the flood

Disease alert in flood-hit Africa

African towns overrun by flooding



African floods kill 150, swamp towns

Canada East - Wet and hungry, Africans flee 'worst floods in living memory'


Floods devastate northern Ghana


Sudan launches flood aid appeal


Humans 'affect global rainfall'


Climate flooding risk 'misjudged'