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Calls for the government to provide better support to UK food producers have intensified recently as supermarkets have been forced to ration sales of some fresh produce. Weather-related disruption has caused supply shortages of vegetables from places including Spain and North Africa.

City supermarkets have been left struggling to fill their fresh fruit and veg shelves due to “difficult weather conditions” in southern Europe and Northern Africa. The city’s MSP, Evelyn Tweed, was contacted by constituents who raised concerns over

Eugenia Kargbo has an unusual job: she is the city of Freetown’s chief heat officer. Her role in Sierra Leone’s capital is the first of its kind in Africa. She has been tasked with raising public awareness about extreme heat, improving responses to heat waves, and collecting, analysing and visualising…

Bad weather in Spain and northern Africa, and rising energy costs, have disrupted the supply of some fresh produce.

Items like cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers are running low after bad weather in Europe and Africa

Egypt is mobilizing efforts to support water and food security in Africa, calling on the international community to finance "climate adaptation" in the continent. The Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Hani Swailem, met in Kenya with the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Andersen, to…

Election observers keep watch over polls throughout the world. Their job is to support efforts to improve electoral quality and to provide transparency. In African countries, both local citizen and international observers have been deployed regularly since the 1990s.

Nigerians are set to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday that are seen as the most wide open since Africa's most populous nation switched from military rule to democracy in 1999.

Bad weather in Europe and Africa has seen UK supermarket shelves run low on items such as tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers.

In tonight's edition: South Africa plants seeds for a greener energy sector by announcing tax breaks for investors in clean power. Also, Namibia welcomes US First Lady Jill Biden as she arrives in Africa for a five-day tour. And we speak to a former Facebook content moderator who blew the…

Will Nigeria's two-party system tremble? Africa's most populous nation has known its share of bruising campaigns, but never since the 1999 return to democracy has there been a run-off in the presidential election. Now, in a nation where the average age is 18, could voters turn away from big tent…