Drones are low cost and easy to operate. Shutterstock/Halfpoint Kwasi Addo Appeaning, University of Ghana Delta environments are low-lying and highly vulnerable to flooding and…
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Investors Turn Kenya’s Troublesome Invasive Water Hyacinth into Cheap Fuel By Benson Rioba
Currently 30 square kilometres of Lake Victoria, which stretches to approximately 375 kilometres and links Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, is covered with the evasive water…
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Black November: “Our Greatest Resistance is Our Life” By Wesley Lima
Negra, a Pernambuco woman, a trans woman and elected São Paulo state deputy for the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), Erica Malunguinho, is certainly one…
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Liberia: The “dictatorship of the multinational corporations”
Unlike other countries in the sub-Saharan region, Liberia was never formally colonised by European imperialism. Therefore, the West African nation was neither militarily nor politically…
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How Kabila and the mining giants went from best friends to adversaries
Why has the DRC’s president had a complete change of heart? For much of this year, two of the most powerful forces in the…
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A Record 207 Environmental Activists Were Killed Last Year. More than 200 environmental activists were killed in 2017, according to the latest report from global rights watchdog Global Witness. By Lorraine Chow
More than 200 environmental activists were killed in 2017, according to the latest report from global rights watchdog Global Witness. The troubling report revealed that…
View More A Record 207 Environmental Activists Were Killed Last Year. More than 200 environmental activists were killed in 2017, according to the latest report from global rights watchdog Global Witness. By Lorraine ChowEnsuring the water’s safety: What can local people do to protect the Nile?
Esther Muwombi The people who live and work at the Bujagali Falls on the River Nile are coming together to help preserve and protect their…
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CHINESE AND TURKISH CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES DESTROY NATIONAL PARKS AND THE LIVELIHOODS OF PEOPLE IN THE HORN AND EAST AFRICA
Indebted for many generations to come, Kenyans slowly realize that the Chinese-built, single-line Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) – dubbed the Mad(araka) Express in short MadEx…
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Bio-piracy: the sale of Uganda’s lakes to investors
Mary Serumaga Appeared on the net on Apr 06, 2018 The fishermen of Kabarole District appear to have blown the whistle on an audacious act…
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The following is a link to a film made possibly in the 1930’s (?) in the Congo. It is about a group of Batwa (Pygmies)…
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We Will Not Forget: THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF LAVALAS IN HAITI
On February 29, 2004, the constitutional government of Haiti was overthrown, bringing Haiti’s ten-year experience with democracy to a brutal end. Orchestrated by the United…
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CONGOLESE OFFICIALS STOP GREENPEACE AFRICA AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CONGO BASIN FOREST
POINTE NOIRE, Congo (Republic of the), November 13, 2017/APO Group0 The Esperanza has been on a month-long tour of the coast of Central Africa to…
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