Uniting Prosperity and Sustainability: Africa’s Path to Growth and Green Futures
Heathrow Airport in the UK currently uses more energy than the entire west African country of Sierra Leone. Despite Africa accounting for less than 4% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, many of its countries face significant threats from climate change, including increased droughts, floods, heat waves and potential crop failures. Climate change costs the […]
Nigeria’s Labor Unions Temporarily Suspend Strike Amid Negotiations
Nigeria’s main labor unions, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have suspended their indefinite strike for one week to continue negotiations with the government over a new minimum wage. The strike, which began on Monday and continued into Tuesday, had shut down the national grid and disrupted flights, protesting the […]
Ethiopian Forces Likely Committed Genocide During Tigray War
A new report by the US-based New Lines Institute concludes there is compelling evidence that Ethiopian forces committed genocidal acts during the Tigray war. The 120-page draft cites multiple independent sources indicating that Ethiopian and its allies engaged in “acts constituting the crime of genocide” from 2020 to 2022. It stated that Ethiopian forces had […]
Uganda’s LGBTQ Community Faces Mounting Rights Violations
The human rights violations of Uganda’s LGBTQ community is on the rise, with over 1,000 cases recorded in the last nine months, according to a report by the Convening for Equality (CFE) pressure group. Rights violations began to rise early last year, following Ugandan parliament’s announcement that it was considering an anti-homosexuality act. The law, […]
Senegalese Court Jails Two Activists for Accusing PM of Tolerating Homosexuality
A Senegalese court has sentenced activist Bah Diakhate and Imam Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Ndao to three months in jail and fined them 100,000 CFA francs ($165) each for “spreading false news” after they accused Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko of tolerating homosexuality. The accusations stemmed from Mr. Sonko allowing French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon to express support […]
Nigeria Moves to Boost Trade with South Korea After Export Boom
Nigeria plans to enhance economic ties with South Korea following the export of $2.26 million (N3.4 billion) worth of alloys and unwrought aluminum in Q4 2023, according to the West African country’s Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar. This move comes amid an improvement in bilateral trade between both nations that saw Nigeria import approximately $203 […]
Kenyan Communities Contest Sale of Lipton Tea Estates to Browns
A Kenyan community-led consortium is contesting the sale of Lipton tea estates to Sri Lankan conglomerate Browns after their own bid failed. The estates, bought by Luxembourg-based CVC Capital from Unilever in 2022, are located in Kericho, Bomet, and Limuru counties and were forcefully taken from natives by British colonialists over a century ago. In […]
Land Degradation in Africa: What are the Causes and the Solutions?
Land degradation is a significant issue in Africa, with over 23% of the continent’s land already degraded and an additional three million hectares degrading annually. Major drivers of this degradation are biological invasions, climate change-linked events, extractive activities (like mining), habitat transformation (like deforestation), and pollutants (like sulfur dioxide). Beyond these, development demands, dependence on […]
Congolese Environmental Activists Build Island with Plastic Waste Collected from Lake Kivu
The Green Helmets is a group of environmental activists dedicated to cleaning up Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The group aims to build an artificial island measuring over 1200 square meters with the collected waste – a project that will require over 2.5 million plastic bottles to achieve. The island, named Tilatopia, […]
5 African Cities at the Forefront of Sustainability
In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the world order and put a dampener on life as we know it. While it is a thing of the past now, it instigated numerous initiatives many of which persist till the present. One of these are green initiatives, which has seen many of the world’s cities make a […]
