Senegal not giving up on oil and gas
Saint-Louis – The new offshore gas terminal appears through the morning mist cloaking the Atlantic Ocean near Saint Louis,... Read more
17 Oct, 2022
Green future is cause for worry in South Africa’s coal belt
Kendal – Miner Thokozani Mtshweni, 37, looks spent as he readies for a 12-hour shift huddled under a carport... Read more
17 Oct, 2022
Nigeria floods toll has passed 600, says government
Lagos – More than 600 people are now known to have perished in the worst floods in a decade... Read more
17 Oct, 2022
Africa’s longest oil pipeline takes shape in Niger
Gaya – Chinese and Nigerien workers haul giant steel pipes over mounds of earth as heavily armed soldiers keep... Read more
14 Oct, 2022
Nigeria floods kill 500, displace 1.4 million people
Abuja – About 500 people have died in Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade and 1.4 million others been... Read more
13 Oct, 2022
Heatwaves will make regions uninhabitable within decades: UN, Red Cross
Geneva – Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there... Read more
11 Oct, 2022
54 poor nations urgently need debt relief, says UN
Geneva – Cascading global crises have left 54 countries – home to more than half of the world’s poorest... Read more
11 Oct, 2022
Heat-resilient Red Sea reefs offer last stand for corals
Marsa Alam – Beneath the waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life that could... Read more
10 Oct, 2022
Egypt replants mangrove ‘treasure’ to fight climate change impacts
Hamata – On Egypt’s Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly planted mangroves, part of a programme to... Read more
8 Oct, 2022
Africa sounds caution on net zero goal ahead of COP27
Cape Town – Africa needs time and money to wean itself off fossil fuels in order to achieve net... Read more
6 Oct, 2022
