Swarms of desert locusts, as many as 360 billion insects has so far devastated East Africa before moving to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and India. Swarms of desert locusts ravaging crops and grazing land across East Africa have reached South Sudan, already reeling from widespread hunger and years of civil war, the country’s agriculture minister said on Tuesday. Invasion is further […]

The Great Rift Valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately 3,700 mi in total length, that runs from the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. The term refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward across eastern Africa, and is […]

by Daniel Mumbere | Tanzania’s president John Pombe Magufuli has