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South African photojournalist John Liebenberg is best known for his remarkable body of work in Namibia, especially the period of the late 1980s when the country headed towards its United Nations-supervised transition to independence.

For many years, residents of Cabinda Province in Angola suffered from water shortage due to a lack of infrastructure, with most of

Danielle Wood awarded a NASA Applied Sciences grant to further work on the Decision Support System for Drought Response in Angola.

Chinese companies have helped Angola develop hydropower stations, drought relief projects and water

Feature: Chinese-built water projects bolster living standards in Angola-

LUANDA, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Despite rich water resources from rivers and lakes throughout Angola, poor water quality and lack of water-related infrastructure i

In 2019, southwestern Angola became a hotspot for international climate debates, owing to an extreme drought in the region.

Despite international and national responses to the drought, the situation is dire. The government’s response is a lesson in how not to deal with drought.

on 6 April 2021, with permission to use the footage. “ The ‘wildcatters’ are coming — oil exploration ‘techies’ — hundreds of them will arrive and I don’t know how to put this politely, but these are not saints, they are going to be setting themselves up… and then they go away.” — Bob Scholes Reconnaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica) recently announced it has “spudded” its second of a three-well programme in the Kavango Basin in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia. The pr...

OBITUARY | He taught SA and the world to understand climate change’s complexity One of the world’s leading experts on global climate change, Prof Bob Scholes died suddenly during a hike in Namibia 05 May 2021 - 19:42 By Chris Barron Prof Bob Scholes, who has died at the age of 63, was the internationally renowned director of the Global Change Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand. A National Research Foundation A-rated scientist, he was one of the top one percent of ...