Africa

How much do rich nations owe Africa for climate damage?

27 Feb 25 - Wealthy nations owe African countries some 50 times more for climate damage than the debt Africa owes them, ActionAid report says.

Oil clean-up 'scam' warnings ignored by Shell, whistleblower tells BBC

17 Feb 25 - A BBC investigation has uncovered allegations that energy giant Shell has ignored repeated warnings that a controversial clean-up operation of oil-polluted areas of southern Nigeria has been beset by problems and corruption.

Sustainable economic growth in South Africa will come from renewables, not coal: modelling

17 Feb 25 - To move away from coal and meet its commitment to reaching net zero emissions by 2050, South Africa needs to dramatically increase production of renewable energy.

Who can share seeds? As climate change and counterfeits hurt Kenyan farmers, it's a growing question

10 Feb 25 - Tucked away in a lush, forested area of central Kenya's Kikuyu town, the National Seed Bank stands as a crucial safeguard for the future of the country's agriculture. Inside two chilly rooms of a government building, more than 50,000 seed varieties are cataloged and stored.

African nations want to connect 300 million people to electricity by 2030

3 Feb 25 - Several African nations committed on Monday to open up their electricity sectors to attract investors and light up homes of 300 million people currently lacking power in the next six years.

Think your efforts to help the climate don't matter? African philosophers disagree

31 Jan 25 - If a single pro-environment lifestyle change - like one person giving up their SUV or cutting out meat in favour of plant-based foods - will not turn the tide of global climate change on its own, it's reasonable to feel there is little that 'doing your bit' can achieve. This mindset is disempowering.

Kenya’s devastating drought is the worst in 40 years

18 Dec 24 - The extreme conditions are leaving millions without food or clean water.

Nimble electric trucks are supercharging African trade

12 Dec 24 - In Rwanda, farmers often watch their harvest spoil before it can reach the market. A fleet of simple, efficient trucks is changing that.

Thirty-five million Africans driven from homes by war and climate disasters – report

29 Nov 24 - Data shows a threefold increase in internal displacement across the African continent since 2009, with flooding and drought posing a growing threat.

The huge, high-tech, low-carbon kitchens feeding young Kenyans

27 Nov 24 - The Giga Kitchen is the jewel in the crown of Food4Education, a Kenyan nonprofit using high-tech, low-carbon and centralized kitchens to feed students en masse in what is Africa’s largest locally led...

Big Oil’s dirty legacy in Nigeria

8 Nov 24 - Who will clean up the environmental mess when Shell and others pull out of the Niger Delta?

COP29 must kickstart stalled progress on the lifeline that is adaptation

1 Nov 24 - Targets for adapting to climate change are meaningless without the means to act. It’s time for a clear adaptation finance goal.

Worst drought in century devastates Southern Africa, millions at risk

17 Oct 24 - More than 27 million lives affected by worst drought in a century, with 21 million children malnourished, says WFP.

South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change?

16 Sep 24 - Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water-levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile.

Floods decimate Nigerian zoo, wash crocodiles into community

13 Sep 24 - Floods in north Nigeria have killed more than 80% of animals in a large zoo with an array of wildlife from lions and crocodiles to buffaloes and ostriches.

'People have never seen anything like it': Morocco hit by extraordinary torrential rains

13 Sep 24 - A rare and deadly phenomenon: According to the latest count, published by the Moroccan interior ministry, 18 people have died as a result of the torrential rains that fell.

African nations are losing up to 5% of their GDP per year with climate change

4 Sep 24 - African nations are losing up to 5% of their GDP every year as they bear a heavier burden than the rest of the world from climate change, a new report said Monday after one of the continent’s hottest...

Nearly 68 million people reeling from drought in Southern Africa

19 Aug 24 - Seventeen percent of people across the region need aid amid the climate change-fuelled drought.

Niger floods toll increases - 53 dead, 18,000 affected

23 Jul 24 - Flooding caused by heavy rains lashing Niger since June has killed 53 people and impacted 18,000, as the west African country grapples with the effects of climate change.