Global News by Tag: environment
ACCRA, GHANA – Nana Okyere Akrofie, 24, says it has been months since he and his neighbors have had water flow from their taps in North Legon, a suburb of Accra, Ghana’s capital.
“The situation is so bad that for over four months now, we have not had water supply in our area,” Akrofie says.
KAMPALA, UGANDA – A gorilla with a furry coat stands in a thicket, next to a large tree. His big brown eyes pierce those who stare at him as he refuses to look away first.
And as the main subject of one of artist Taga Nuwagaba’s paintings, the gorilla always wins the staring contest. In his studio in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, Nuwagaba puts his finishing touches on another painting nearby.
NAIROBI, KENYA – It is early evening, and one of the fast food outlets in the South C Shopping Center in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, is bustling with activity as hungry souls troop in one after the other. But Paul Mwangi, a taxi operator, says that no matter what he orders on the menu, he can’t spend less than 100 shillings, $1.10 USD, on a simple snack.
SELIBE-PHIKWE, BOTSWANA – Segwabe Morathi, a retired religious minister, works as a farmer in a village on the outskirts of Selibe-Phikwe, a small mining town in eastern Botswana. He says farming is not easy in Botswana, where a semiarid desert means that the weather is unpredictable. A changing climate has only made rain more unreliable, he says.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Seven years ago, Mohan Pokhrel, 60, left his home in Biratnagar, a village in southeastern Nepal for Kathmandu, the capital. With his entire family in tow, Pokhrel says they were looking forward to accessing the facilities they assumed would be available in the country’s only urban city. But their hope soon faded as their home lacked the most basic amenities, including running water.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – From across the holy Bagmati River, tourists with cameras zoom in to capture pictures of the burning corpses.
Smoke from the burning pyres fills the air surrounding Pashupati Aryaghat, the world’s most famous Hindu crematorium just outside the Pashupati Temple, a world heritage site in Kathmandu.
PAMPORE, KASHMIR – Humaira Akther and her family have been in the saffron business for generations. Their home and farm in Pampore sit alongside the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, just 9 miles from the city center.