Until the last half-decade, lesser flamingos bred at four African sites: two salt pans in Botswana and Namibia, a soda lake in Tanzania, and a artificial dam near South Africa’s Kimberley town.
The World Bank said in a statement late on Thursday that the Mpatamanga Hydropower Storage Project would help supply electricity to over 1 million new households and create thousands of jobs.
Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds wait outside a disused mine shaft in South Africa, in the hope of their loved ones emerging from the hole in the ground.
Botswana begins voting on Wednesday to decide whether President Mokgweetsi Masisi's secures a second term, amidst slowing economic growth driven by declining diamond demand the central issue.
President Joe Biden is planning a trip to Angola in coming weeks, fulfilling an earlier promise that would make him the first U.S. President to visit sub-Saharan Africa since Barack Obama in 2015.
