December 16, 2025
Kenya: Mt. Kenya Glaciers to Vanish By 2030 - Environmentalist Lewis Pugh
What's the context? Endurance athlete and environmentalist Lewis Pugh said witnessing the Lewis Glacier on Mount Kenya was a "shocking sight". Read more »
December 08, 2025
Africa: How Africa Is Using Tech to Protect Nature and the Planet
What's the context? Africa is leveraging technology and AI coupled with traditional knowledge to reduce planet-heating emissions and protect nature. Read more »
November 21, 2025
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Environment Chief Tells COP30 Polluters Must Pay
What's the context? Jiwoh Abdulai, Sierra Leone's environment minister, talks to Context about what climate change means in his West African nation. Read more »
September 12, 2025
Africa: Macky Sall On a New $50 Billion Plan to Climate-Proof Africa
What's the context? Amid funding uncertainty, African leaders urgently call for more climate adaptation cash. Read more »
September 03, 2025
Kenya: Sex for Fish - U.S. Aid Cuts Revive Risky Behaviour in Kenya
What's the context? Every dollar of lost aid pushes a girl into risky sex and denies a gay man his HIV meds - Kenyan clinician. Read more »
December 21, 2020
Africa: Climate Risks to Health Set to Worsen Inequity, Harm Children
From poor families in flood-prone homes to women required to cover up in extreme heat, climate change will hit the health of vulnerable groups the hardest, warns Kristie Ebi Read more »
August 19, 2019
Sierra Leone: With Reservoirs At Risk, Freetown Confronts Water Crisis
Half the year, Iyatunde Kamara worries torrential rains will wash her house off its hillside and into the rivers of waste that flow through Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. Read more »
August 27, 2018
Africa: Half the World's Schools Lack Clean Water, Toilets and Handwashing
Nearly half the world's schools lack clean drinking water, toilets and handwashing facilities, putting millions of children at risk of disease, experts warned on Monday. Read more »
December 11, 2014
Africa: Protecting Mangroves Can Lower Disaster Risks, Offer Cash - Experts
Better protecting the world's fast-disappearing mangroves could have big economic, social and environmental benefits, experts said at the U.N. climate talks in Lima this week. Read more »
