11840GDACS EMM News Feed Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material Africa joins space racehttp://apanews.net/en/news/africa-joins-space-raceBy Hicham Alaoui. It’s the African version of the space race. Since Egypt launched its first satellite in 1988, eleven countries on the continent have followed suit and others are preparing to join the small and exclusive African club of space “powers.Thu, 09 Jan 2020 20:52:00 +0100apanews-en-a5c117ef179acf1ff37ef60519be3d4e20200109205200Famines In many parts of the world famines have been common in the past. What causes famines? How can famines be averted? Around 130 million people died in famines during the last 150 years according to our historical reconstructions.https://ourworldindata.org/faminesWe might naturally tend to associate famine with drought or other natural phenomena, and indeed most documented famines have occurred in the context of harvest failures, often due to droughts or flooding. However, in recent times, aggregate food availability per person has increased dramatically,....Thu, 09 Jan 2020 04:35:00 +0100ourworldindata-313270980bfe1c8a84e491a863b6446220200109043500Natural Disasters How many die from natural disasters? Where and from which disasters – and what can we do to prevent deaths from natural disasters? Over the last decade the annual number of deaths due to natural disasters was 45,000 globally.https://ourworldindata.org/natural-disastersThe number of people dying in natural disasters is lower today than it was in the past, the world has become more resilient. Earthquakes, however, can still claim a large number of lives. Whilst historically floods, droughts and epidemics dominated disaster deaths , a high annual death toll now....Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:27:00 +0100ourworldindata-033982efa499fce49db7d2ee4d23f952202001081827002019 business highlightshttps://www.manicapost.co.zw/2019-business-highlights/THE year 2019 started on a bad note caused by exchange rate pressures as the Zimbabwe dollar value tumbled against major currencies. Minister of Finance Professor Mthuli Ncube floated the Zim dollar in February, resulting in the abandoning of the 1:1 parity of the RTGS dollar against the US dollar.Thu, 02 Jan 2020 23:50:00 +0100manicapost-ee1ac184953a3e9a827c6b03015ff78520200102235000