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Giraffes are the world’s tallest mammals and an African icon, but they are also vulnerable to extinction.
Giraffe populations have declined by 40% in the last 30 years, and there are now fewer than 70,000 mature individuals left in the wild. What are the causes of this alarming decline, and (…)
, by GABOR Daniela, SYLLA Ndongo Samba
In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.
Few remember Cheikh Anta Diop—the renowned Senegalese historian and Pan-African political leader—as an early prophet of climate change. Yet we should. Writing in 1985, as the (…)
, by DESAI Rehad
The word catastrophe is being used more and more by institutions reporting on the effects of extreme weather in the two regions of Africa, Southern and South Eastern Africa, and of late Australia. The word means a number of things: tragic; fiasco; utter failure; sudden and violent change in a (…)
, by MACLEAN Ruth
Millions from Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe affected as houses and roads submerged.
The devastating cyclone that hit south-eastern Africa may be the worst ever disaster to strike the southern hemisphere, according to the UN.
Cyclone Idai has swept through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe (…)
, by GARRISON Ann , HIMBARA David
Rosatom—Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation—has recently signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with a number of African nations to build nuclear power plants within their borders. I spoke to David Himbara, a professor of international development and African energy activist, about the (…)
, by BOHNE Andreas, THIAM Ibrahima
Can business as usual be visionary? Perspectives from four regions.
Mining (particularly in its industrialised form) is a hugely controversial area – at a local and a global level. Locally, diverse impacts are tangible: proponents refer to job creation and to the contribution to economic (…)
, by FITCHETT Jennifer
A tropical storm – named Dineo . The storm can be upgraded to tropical cyclone status if these exceed 120km/h. Tropical cyclones are classified on the basis of strength and are measured according to the Saffir Simpson scale . This was developed in 1965 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and (…)
, by AFP
Greenpeace France warns that tropical forests could be lost to a palm oil bonanza that has already razed millions of hectares of south-east Asia.
Africa’s tropical forests are threatened by a palm oil bonanza that has already razed millions of old-growth hectares in south-east Asia, (…)
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