African governments are failing to make proper use of local Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, despite their capacity to provide much-needed broad...

Models to predict the impact of climate change on potable water and the management of wastewater are needed to deal with the expected increase in...

A combination of political flux, higher food prices and the failure of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) - after 14 years of power - to...

At least three people have been confirmed dead in Johannesburg, South Africa, in an outbreak of what officials believe to be contagious hemorrhagic...

At least six countries in Southern Africa could receive poor rainfall during the critical planting season starting next month, says an early forecast...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has called on governments to draw up national laws obliging them to take action when there...

High fertiliser and fuel prices in South Africa may impact the 2009/2010 maize harvest in the region's largest producer, a grain farmers' body...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has announced it will go ahead with plans to set up a regional grain reserve, while urging member...

The safety camps set up in Gauteng Province to house victims displaced in South Africa's xenophobic attacks were due to close on 15 August, but an...

South Africa should consider temporarily declaring asylum seekers from certain Southern African countries as refugees, to keep up with the burgeoning...