At a time when the international scientific community is telling us the world cannot absorb new fossil fuel developments if we are to tackle the climate crisis, Uganda and Tanzania are planning to…
Bonn/Kampala, - In consultation with the secretariat of UN Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Republic of Uganda has decided to move the dates of the upcoming Africa Climate Week to 20 to 24 April 2020.…
Indigenous people, environmentalists and industries vie for control over lands that can offer economic benefits or climate protection — but not always both.
Beneath the forest canopy, Lucien Maka…
Saint-Louis, the old colonial capital of Senegal, faces a flooding threat that has already seen entire villages lost to the Atlantic
Ameth Diagne points to a single tree submerged in the ocean. It…
INTRODUCTION TO THE POWERING AFRICA: SUMMIT
The 6th Powering Africa: Summit (PAS) will return to Miami in February 2020. The Summit will welcome over 370 investors to Miami from across North America…
There's growing alarm in East Africa about huge swarms of desert locusts which are spreading across the region.
The swarms have been destroying vegetation, forcing farmers into desperate measures.…
UK investors could seize a $24bn investment opportunity by helping to connect millions of people without access to electricity to off-grid home solar power systems.
The market for pay-as-you-go home…
Near Morocco's sunny Atlantic coast, the tiny community of Id Mjahdi is being touted as Africa's first completely solar-powered village.
Solar power has the potential to become one of Africa's top…
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Paulin Bolumbu thought his family lived a safe distance from the Congo River, but in November the water overran its banks by more than half a kilometer, inundating his corrugated…
Van Zyl's golden mole is an extraordinary creature. It is more closely related to elephants than to the moles you might find in gardens and parks. It has no visible eyes or ears and it "swims" just…
BRUSSELS — The European Union spent 20 million euros last year in Eritrea, hoping to help stem an exodus from the repressive African country, which is consistently one of its biggest sources of…
Power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., South Africa’s biggest polluter, said it will slash emissions of three major pollutants by 2035 while it asks for exemptions to incoming standards to avoid as…
Solar Africa returns to East Africa at Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania
7th Solar Africa 2020, East Africa's largest Solar Energy Products and Equipment fair is back, in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania to…
Tension over water scarcity is increasing across the globe. A new system flags up where this threatens to erupt into violence.
Researchers from six organisations have developed an early warning…
Every year, about 15 billion trees are cut down globally, and across Africa, deforestation rates has surpassed the global annual average of 0.8 percent.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. So Tanzania, where 80 percent of the population has no reliable access to electricity, is planning to import biomass as fuel from Ethiopia this year and…