-
How Much Does South Africa Need To Kick Start Its Clean Energy Transition?
Africa’s number one emitter of climate-warming gases is making an effort to move its coal-dominated economy to a greener footing, but how much would the entire process cost South Africa? According to a new report that was released on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos and was produced by academics at South…
-
Hundreds Displaced As Floods Hit South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province Again
Barely a month after heavy rains killed 435 people, the KwaZulu-Natal Province has again suffered massive flooding that has forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes once more in search of safety and dry land. Heavy rains began over the weekend, damaging infrastructure, roads, bridges and buildings, mainly in the port city of Durban, the…
-
Four Missing Miners Found Dead 2 Months After Mine Collapse In Burkina Faso
Government sources have confirmed that the dead bodies of four out of eight missing miners have been found nearly two months after floodwaters submerged the zinc mine they were working in. The Perkoa Zinc mine, owned by Canadian firm Trevali Mining Corp and located some 120km (75 miles) west of the capital, Ouagadougou, collapsed on…
-
Zimbabwe’s Central Bank Lifts Ban On Bank Lending Services
Three years after Zimbabwe reintroduced its currency, a decade after abandoning it for mainly the United States dollar, the local currency’s value has declined from about 2.5 to the US dollar in 2019 to 285 to the US dollar on the interbank market. The Zimbabwean dollar trades even lower in black market at 400 to…
-
Police Officers In DRC Seize 1500 Kilograms Of Elephant Tusk
Authorities have discovered and seized about 1500 kilograms of elephant ivory from smugglers in the southeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tagged one of the largest hauls in Africa in years, legal and environmental officials said, Police officers, discovered the smuggled tusks aboard trucks in the city of Lubumbashi on Saturday, measuring up…
-
“We depend on the forest”: Logging Worsens Climate Impacts For Indigenous People In Nigeria
Despite providing habitation and means of survival for indigenous people in host communities, deforestation in Southern Nigeria is gradually pushing several forest kinds of wood indigenes into extinction. Micheal Otu (47) farms cassava and plantain in the indigenous community of Okonde Boki Local Government, in Nigeria’s southeastern Cross River state. Over 20 years, he has…
-
Inside The Illegal Trading Of Forest Woods In Cross River Community
Travelling into the Cross River forest as a researcher – let alone a reporter- to investigate the increasing impact of deforestation in host communities is considered deadly; as illegal loggers possess harmful weapons and are ready to kill anyone who questions their operations. These loggers, majorly youths in the host communities, negotiate with foreign buyers…