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A new index, calculating the vulnerability of 170 countries to the impacts of climate change over the next 30 years, has identified the populations, ecosystems and business environments of east Africa as facing extreme risks from temperature rises and climate-related events.

The Sudanese government recently announced its plan to build the country’s first nuclear reactor and a forthcoming nuclear power plant in 2020, the state news agency SUNA reported.

Despite the Kimberley Process diamond certification scheme having not authorized international sales amid allegations of killings, human rights violations and corruption in the Eastern Zimbabwe diamond fields, Mugabe has said the diamond sales have "huge potential" to revive the economy.

The Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi announced the R44 billion budget for 2010/11 last Thursday. The 20 percent increase, from R36.4 billion in 2009/10, represents the biggest budget ever passed by the country's parliament and the largest spending in this area by any African country.

Through Masibuyele Emasimini tractor mechanization program, which is a four-year initiative, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries aims to encourage black citizens back into the agricultural sector. The department has decided to make an initial allotment of R100 million, to be followed by R50 million to each of the South Africa’s nine provinces.

The project will mainly cover the construction and tarring of 77 km of the road Ndala-Nikki-Chicandou-Frontier Nigeria between Ndala and the Nigerian border, the total cost of which amounts to 27.2 billion CFA Francs.