Nicaragua

Nicaragua signs Paris climate agreement

Managua - Muslimchronicle

Nicaragua signed the Paris climate agreement on Monday, leaving the United States and Syria as the only two holdouts on the global climate pact. The government of President Daniel Ortega said the global 2015 pact represented "the only international instrument that offers the conditions to face global warming and its effects." source: AFPRead more

Nicaragua signs Paris climate agreement: official

Managua - Muslimchronicle

Deadly tropical storm Nate kills 22 in Central America, heads for US

Costa Rica - Muslimchronicle

Tropical Storm Nate has killed at least 22 people in Central America with torrential rains that forced thousands from their homes, uprooted trees, knocked out bridges and turned roads into rivers, officials said Thursday. Forecasters predicted it will strengthen into a hurricane headed for Mexico and the United States. The country hardest hit by the storm that began Wednesday wasRead more

Polluted lake is poor Nicaraguans' lifeline

Nicaragua - Muslimchronicle

Looking tired and haggard, William Coronado pulls up before dawn with a boat full of fish on the muddy shore of Nicaragua's Lake Managua, a dumping ground for trash and waste."The lake is so polluted. They throw all sorts of crap into " said the 56-year-old. "Containers, old buckets, all sorts of bags—all the junk they throw away inRead more

8.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near coast of Mexico

Mexico - Musimchronicle

An earthquake measured at a preliminary magnitude of 8.0 has hit late Thursday off the coast of Mexico, the US Geological Survey said. "Hazardous waves from the earthquake were possible along the coasts of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras and Ecuador," the US Tsunami Warning Centre said. According to Deutsch Presse-Agentur, dpa, "The earthquake struck at aRead more

A fight to save endangered tapirs

Nicaragua - Muslimchronicle

Thirteen tapirs lounge in the bushes of Ticuantepe Zoo, in eastern Nicaragua, their bellies plump with leaves and fruit -- blissfully unaware of the peril faced by their kind. The largest land mammals in Central America, the brown, pig-like animals with sloping snouts came into the world in captivity, in an enclosure a short distance from the country's Masaya Volcano,Read more

Bianca Jagger leads Nicaragua canal protest

La Fonseca - Muslimchronicle

Celebrity rights activist Bianca Jagger lent star power on Tuesday to a protest against the building of a major canal in her native Nicaragua. The 72-year-old is a former actress and ex-wife of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger. She joined dozens of demonstrators who marched in La Fonseca, a remote village on a dirt track, where her visit caused aRead more

Fight against planned Nicaragua Canal goes to inter-American body

Managua - AFP

A rural movement in Nicaragua that opposes the government's plan to build a cross-country canal to rival Panama's on Wednesday said it has taken its fight to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The matter would be lodged in coming days, alleging violations of thousands of people's livelihoods and property along the route of the planned waterway, the director ofRead more

Nicaragua focuses on climate-change resistant coffee

Managua - ArabToday

With climate change threatening crops in many parts of the world, Nicaragua is turning to a robust variety of coffee bean to protect one of its key exports. The appropriately named robusta coffee comes from the Coffea canephora plant, which is being increasingly planted in the Central American country under government authorization. The sturdy variety is easier to care for,Read more

Nicaragua tobacco industry thrives thanks to US consumer

Esteli - AFP

Cuba's cigars may be more famous, but Nicaragua has its own growing reputation as a tobacco producer, boasting a sector that is a big exporter and employer, thanks mainly to US demand. Esteli, a region in the north of the Central American country, has the dark soil and tropical climate propitious for growing the big leafy tobacco plants. And there'sRead more