In the face of growing climate change, indigenous women in Kenya are remembering and reinstating their…
Category: Environment
Locust outbreak threatens more countries in eastern Africa
Swarms of desert locusts could ravage more countries in eastern Africa and threaten the livelihood of…
THE MAN WHO PLANTED
In our urgency to ‘achieve results’ (or, in reality, perhaps to ‘show results’ to others) we…
Parents Urge Climate Negotiators to Be ‘Real Heroes’ for World’s Children
From: Thomson Reuters Foundation DEC. 5, 2019 By Megan Rowling MADRID, Dec 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)…
Affluent Society Blamed For Speed Up In Removal Of Kenyan Forest
Kenyan children planting trees Since independence, natural resources in Kenya have been on a fast track…
«Le peuple d’abord» RDC : l’entrepreneur Jean Michel Wembi décidé à matérialiser cette vision du Président Tshisekedi
«Un voyage de mille kilomètres commence toujours par le premier pas», dit un adage chinois. Depuis…
Asylum for sale: Refugees say some U.N. workers demand bribes for resettlement
A seven-month investigation found reports of U.N. staff members exploiting refugees desperate for a safe home…
How we used drones to monitor coastal erosion in Ghana
Drones are low cost and easy to operate. Shutterstock/Halfpoint Kwasi Addo Appeaning, University of Ghana Delta…
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,…
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…
Liberia: The “dictatorship of the multinational corporations”
Unlike other countries in the sub-Saharan region, Liberia was never formally colonised by European imperialism. Therefore,…
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…
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…
Ensuring 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…
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…
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…
VINTAGE FILM OF A BATWA COMMUNITY BUILDING A BRIDGE IN THE CONGOLESE RAINFOREST
The following is a link to a film made possibly in the 1930’s (?) in the…
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…
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…
Sierra Leone's Disaster Was Caused by Neglect, Not Nature By Lansana Gberie
The New York Times, Aug. 20, 2017 http://tinyurl.com/ycxqmoxr [Lansana Gberie is the author of “A Dirty…
G20: The Second Berlin War Against Africa
“China is there not to fight Africa’s battles, but its own.” Germany holds this year’s presidency…
In a Guardian Story About an Environmental Conflict in Kenya, the White Saviour Rides Again By Christine Mungai
The Guardian recently published an article by Tristan McConnell, their correspondent in Nairobi, Kenya, titled…
Wherever this Canadian mining company goes in Congo, violence seems to follow
Banro operates in a region that has seen incredible violence over the past two decades and…
SOS: Save our seas By Rene Wadlow
On 5 to 9 June 2017, the United Nations will bring together in New York the…
Day of Mother Earth by Rene Wadlow
The United Nations General Assembly in 2009 through resolution A/RES/63/278, under the leadership of the Plurinational…