Maparasha Hills, KenyaThousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to…
LILONGWE, MALAWI - A group of Malawi women is changing lives in villages that have long lived without power by installing and maintaining solar equipment in homes and schools. The women, known as…
Time flies, we've turned 6 years today!!...it seems like yesterday when we celebrated the day we decided to follow our vision, We are yet again celebrating our 6th anniversary today. We have…
Exclusive: African state says it has agreements with oil companies in Lake Chad area.
Chad has asked to suspend an application for world heritage site status for Lake Chad to explore oil and mining…
LONDON (Reuters) - The World Bank’s private-sector arm has introduced new climate change conditions for its investments in commercial banks to encourage the lenders to wind down support for coal…
Millions of people forced from their homes face dual hardship of COVID-19
Around 14.6 million new internal displacements were recorded across 127 countries and territories between January and June…
From rock art in southern Africa to pyramids along the River Nile, humans have been leaving their mark across the continent for millennia.
But extreme weather events, the rise in sea levels and…
The World Bank has launched its multi-billion dollar Africa climate change strategy for the next six years in a bid to kickstart green growth hampered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Elephants may have ingested toxins produced by bacteria found in waterholes.
Hundreds of elephants died in Botswana earlier this year from ingesting toxins produced by cyanobacteria, according to…
London - Keeping food fresh without refrigeration is near impossible in the scorching climate of sub-Saharan Africa. But it's hard to power fridges in a region where almost 600 million people live…
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said on Thursday that robust interventions rolled out by governments and donor agencies to fight desert locusts in the Horn of African…
Passion
I am a multi passionate person, I’m quite adventurous, I love exploring places and just admire earth’s biodiversity. Glad it’s everywhere I go. Books are something I love to read. I also…
In a low emissions strategy, South Africa flagged an aspiration to become a net zero economy by 2050, but its energy plan foresees a continued role for coal.
The South African cabinet has approved a…
Friends of the Earth seeks judicial review, saying aid deal contradicts climate commitments.
Environmentalists at Friends of the Earth will mount a legal challenge against the government’s decision…
Liberian President George Weah on Wednesday called for tougher laws to combat what he said was an "epidemic" of rape of mostly children and young girls.
Addressing a conference on the subject, Weah…
Saint Louis is on the frontline of the climate crisis. Entire rooms in people’s homes are underwater. In a few years, the sea defence this boy is striding along will be engulfed’.
Eight years ago, rising water levels in Kenya’s Lake Nakuru drove away the clouds of pink-coloured flamingos that were the park’s biggest draw.
Rangers say their disappearance triggered a drop in…
Dorcas Wakio Mugo is a student of Marine Resource Management at Technical University of Mombasa in Kenya.
She is consigned to the fight against climate change, as a result she has opted to take a…
Report calls for more support if plan to plant 100m hectares of vegetation is to be realised.
The world’s most ambitious reforestation project, the Great Green Wall of Africa, has covered only 4% of…
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