Environmental officials have said one key reason countries are failing to halt rapid losses in nature is that women who gather much of the world's wood and water, and carry out a ... Read more »
Fishing businesses in Turkana, Kenya, have many challenges - much of government support is not reaching these indigenous fishing communities, forcing them to sell their catches ... Read more »
The Kenyan naval special operations squadron has received a major boost to its sea and land warfare operations after more marine commandos joined the team. Training that includes ... Read more »
The current AU-brokered negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam have seen important achievements, and are expected to lead to a binding agreement on the filling and ... Read more »
Not only will the massive oil spill off off the coast of Mauritius have long-term impacts on the island's fragile ecosystems, it will also threaten the nation's efforts to use oc Read more »
Gutted - a documentary collaboration between Angelo Louw, Greenpeace Africa's Digital Mobilisation Officer and filmmaker Malcolm Rainers, highlights how industrial fishi Read more »
Amid a precarious democratic transition, the Trump administration is suspending development assistance to Ethiopia. The decision is "misguided and shortsighted," former U.S. Read more »
Zimbabwe's government has banned all mining in national parks, one day after environmental rights lawyers went to court to ban a Chinese firm from exploring for coal in the ... Read more »
According to new data from the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), more than 535,500 children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition. Of them, some 156,500 children are ... Read more »
The mysterious deaths of 22 elephants in Zimbabwe may have been the result of bacterial infection, the country's parks agency has said after it ruled out poaching because the dead ... Read more »
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