Listen as Matembo Lisimba of ZESCO explains the steps that led to the utility exceeding its energy generation target. Lisimba also expands on ZESCO's plans to diversify its energy mix to mitigate…
A "total system collapse" caused widespread power cuts across Nigeria on Thursday.
Early in the morning, levels of power generated in Africa's most populous country fell to zero megawatts.…
It will now take just 15 minutes to travel from the Lagos Marina to the Mile 2 district. This is one of the advantages of the new metro system in Nigeria's business capital, whose first line is now…
On 8 September 2023, the Nkhata Bay drinking water plant, located in the capital of the eponymous district, was re-commissioned in the presence of Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera. The…
Faced with household waste pollution in Algiers, the National Waste Agency (AND) is planning to convert this waste into biogas. Algeria will benefit from the expertise of the Korean Environmental…
Global warming is being blamed as the main cause of storm Daniel, which devastated eastern Libya on 10 September 2023. Coming from Greece via Turkey and Bulgaria, the extreme weather phenomenon…
GreenShift Africa. This is the new platform recently launched in Kenya by US fund manager GreenMax Capital. It will provide financial support for African mobility start-ups in their commercial…
To limit tyre imports into Cairo, the Egyptian government is planning to set up a plant to recycle used tyres. On 12 September 2023, the Arab Industrialization Organization (AIO) signed a contract…
Kenya-based investment fund Catalyst has just completed a fundraising round that raised $8.6 million to finance 40 African start-ups focused on the climate.
Funding for the implementation of the 17…
In South Africa, independent power producer (IPP) Enernet Global has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Vedanta Zinc International. The aim is to decarbonise its mining operations in the…
Faced with increasing wastewater pollution in Kasserine, in central-western Tunisia, the government is speeding up construction work on the town's future wastewater treatment plant. The plant should…
Global Witness has drawn up a global report on crimes committed against environmental activists. In Africa, the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is worrying. The Central African…
Faced with water stress in Egypt, the authorities are betting on seawater desalination to meet the needs of the new towns being built in the north-west of the country. The seawater will be treated…
Yesterday, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered her annual "State of the Union" address. EREF’s very much welcome her focus on the European Green Deal.
With the recent clear…