Geography of Africa
Mauritius rushes to stave off oil spill
“It is the biggest natural disaster to my knowledge that we are having in Mauritius,” said Jacqueline Sauzier, a microbiologist who heads Mauritius Marine Conservation Society. The oil spill poses a threat to nearby ecology and wildlife on wetlands and smaller islands.
Clean water a casualty of civil war in South Sudan
Host Hari Sreenivasan talks to Manyang David Mayar about the situation in South Sudan where flooding and unrest has made it extremely difficult to find clean drinking water.Host Hari Sreenivasan talks to Manyang David Mayar about the situation in South Sudan where flooding and unrest has made it extremely difficult to find clean drinking water.
How the sands of time have almost swallowed a German ghost town in the Namibian desert
French photographer Romain Veillon has a thing for taking pictures of abandoned places. And you can’t get much more abandoned than Kolmanskop, a German diamond mining town in Namibia that became a virtual ghost town in the early 1950s. Veillon visited Kolmanskop last summer, and returned to France with 4,500 photos of a place where time, but not sand, has stood still for decades.
Kofi Awoonor: Ghanaian Diplomat and Poet Dies in Terrorist Attack
We want to take a moment to remember a poet. Kofi Awoonor was from Ghana. He served as Ghana’s Ambassador to the United Nations in the 1990s. And he was one of those killed on Saturday in the terrorist attack at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall.