Tuesday 17 July 2012
Imagine if it took 70 percent of your disposable income to put food on your family’s table, leaving just 30 percent for all other expenses.
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Tuesday 10 July 2012
The rapid spread of peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a virulent livestock disease of goats and sheep, is wreaking havoc in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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Saturday 20 November 2010
"Today, I'm ashamed to have signed the documents creating this park, because I didn't know that we would die of hunger in the middle of the forest." Mpaka-Mbouiti is a leader in the village of Loussala, in the Conkouati-Douli National Park.
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Tuesday 26 October 2010
Recent studies in the Democratic Republic of Congo suggest that pork trade may affect the transmission of the parasite Taenia solium, also known as the pork tapeworm, selecting highly infected pigs at village level.
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Tuesday 05 October 2010
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) received an immediate notification on Monday, 20 September. According to the report, the causal agent of the outbreak has been identified as mycoplasma mycoides, a sub-species of mycoides.
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Monday 04 October 2010
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) received an immediate notification on Monday, 20 September. According to the report, the causal agent of the outbreak has been identified as mycoplasma mycoides, a sub-species of mycoides.
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Friday 10 September 2010
For some seven million Congolese living in Kinshasa the only meat and poultry they could buy to eat since the 1980s was frozen imports from Western countries, distributed locally by a few local businessmen.
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Saturday 12 June 2010
The Democratic Republic of Congo purchased the John Deere tractors and delivered them to CEUM headquarters in Bokonzo, Gemena, on May 11. The government also paid all the delivery costs, says CEUM President Mossai Sanguma. The donation is part of a new government strategy to “kick-start the economy,” he added.
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Wednesday 16 December 2009
The Central African Republic must focus on developing agriculture, energy and education to foster economic growth rather than exploiting the nation’s mineral resources, according to Obiageli Ezekwesili, the World Bank’s vice-president for Africa.
“Diamonds, timber, uranium and all of the ores here are non-renewable, they are depleting assets,” she told reporters today in the capital, Bangui
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Tuesday 01 September 2009
The French are putting pressure on the Congo-Brazzaville government, a former French colony, because of plans to let South Africans farm in the central African country.
This is according
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Thursday 30 July 2009
In a report released earlier this week, Global Witness claims that multinational companies are furthering a trade in minerals at the heart of the hi-tech industry that feeds the horrendous civil war in the Democratic
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