Back in the spotlight: Africa’s Great Green Wall
Dakar – After years of struggling with insufficient funds, efforts to build Africa’s Great Green Wall – a massive defence... Read more
23 Nov, 2021
UK to make electric car charging points compulsory in new buildings
London – Britain will make electric car chargers compulsory for new buildings in England from 2022, as it switches... Read more
23 Nov, 2021
Two mountain gorillas born in DRC’s Virunga park
Goma – Two new-born mountain gorillas have further boosted the endangered species’ baby boom underway in the Democratic Republic of... Read more
18 Nov, 2021
Activists fear gas study threatens South Africa’s Wild Coast
Johannesburg – A planned seismic oil and gas exploration project by energy giant Shell off South Africa’s Wild Coast region,... Read more
16 Nov, 2021
North African climate change threatens farming, political stability
Sidi Salem – Tunisian olive farmer Ali Fileli looked out over his parched fields and crushed a lump of... Read more
15 Nov, 2021
Drought, overpumping cut Morocco river link to sea
Saidia – Moroccan environmentalist Mohamed Benata stood taking photos of what should be the mouth of the Moulouya river –... Read more
15 Nov, 2021
Almost 4 000 people displaced by tidal surge in Ghana
Accra – Almost 4 000 people on Ghana’s coast were still displaced on Wednesday after a weekend tidal surge swept... Read more
10 Nov, 2021
Art of trash: Feting South Africa’s overlooked waste pickers
Johannesburg – To many they are just filthy-looking jumbo bags bursting at the seams with recyclable waste wheeled along... Read more
5 Nov, 2021
No tilling, no chemicals in South African farmer’s revolution
Balfour – It’s spring in South Africa, and Danie Bester’s tillers are rusting in a corner of his farm. Freshly-turned... Read more
28 Oct, 2021
Northern white rhino retired from world-first breeding project
Nairobi – Scientists attempting to bring back the near-extinct northern white rhinoceros announced on Thursday they would stop harvesting eggs... Read more
21 Oct, 2021
