Climate summit: hitherto divided, Africa adopts the “Nairobi declaration”

SOMALIA: KSrelief invests $5M for drinking water in response to drought

KENYA: on the sidelines of Climate Week, Uber launches its fleet of electric motorcycles

“A blended financing approach can accelerate the rise of clean energy”

AFRICA: Climate puts agriculture with insufficient yields to the test

Flood risks: what response within UEMOA?

Climate: the long race towards the decarbonization of industries in Africa

AFRICA: faced with the climate emergency, concrete commitments from BOAD

Education systems facing the challenge of climate change: where is Africa located?

African Climate Week: 5 days to shape the economic and climate future

TSIPOURIDIS & ELMAWI: Year of many firsts leaves humanity gasping for breath of fresh air

In Summary Science has been monotonously repeating report after report and COP after COP that we should phase out fossil fuels to reduce CO2 emissions.  

Africa Climate Summit: What Happened, What's Next for African Leaders and People?

AFRICA: Platinum Rhino Farm bought out in extremis, but will be closed down

Months after it was put up for auction, Platinum Rhino was finally bought out at the last minute by the conservation organisation African Parks.

MOROCCO: how the earthquake shook Marrakech’s tourism potential

What does the future hold for tourism in Marrakech?

SOUTH AFRICA: Kavango-Zambèze, an area of stability for elephants

The 2023 survey report on elephants in the Kavango-Zambèze Transfrontier Area (KAZA) shows that elephant populations there are stable.

AFRICA: debt-for-climate swaps once again recommended

With Africa in need of more than $300 billion a year for climate adaptation, policymakers and government officials gathered at a high-level event on the sidelines of the African Climate Summit in Nairobi called for innovative mechanisms to unlock climate finance.

DJIBOUTI: the country’s first wind farm inaugurated near Ghoubet Bay

The Djibouti authorities recently inaugurated the country's first onshore wind farm near Ghoubet Bay. The facility, built under a public-private partnership (PPP), has a capacity of 60 MW. Djibouti is now one of the world’s leading producers of wind energy.

SOUTH AFRICA: a new plant boosts water supply in Gauteng

In South Africa, Rand Water is completing the first phase of work on its new drinking water plant, located near the Zuikerbosch water treatment plant in Gauteng province. At this stage, the plant has a production capacity of 150,000 m3 of drinking water per day.

MOZAMBIQUE: drinking water supply for 90,000 people in Niassa to be improved

To improve the supply of drinking water to people in the northern province of Niassa in Mozambique, the government is launching phase II of the Project to promote sustainable water supply, hygiene and rural sanitation (PROSUAS).

In Africa, “the carbon market will give polluters carte blanche”

As oil and gas projects proliferate in Africa, the continent's heads of state and government, meeting recently in Nairobi, Kenya, for the first African Climate Summit, are proposing a tenfold increase in investment in renewable energies.