May 27, 2022
Africa: Insect Meat Loaf, Fertilizer Trees, and Mosquito-repelling Plants - The Promise of Africa's Bioeconomy #AfricaClimateCrisis
Africa feels the impacts of COVID-19, conflict, and climate change perhaps more than any other region in the world. The costs of food, fuel, and fertilizer have skyrocketed over… Read more »
March 24, 2022
East Africa: Activists Opposed to East African Crude Oil Pipeline Call on Pope Francis for Support #AfricaClimateCrisis
Ugandan activists have met Pope Francis to ask for his support in stopping the East African Crude Pipline (EACOP) - a heated crude oil pipeline planned to run from Hoima in Uganda… Read more »
March 10, 2022
Tanzania: Masaai Way of Life Threatened by Govt Plans for Trophy Hunting #AfricaClimateCrisis
More than one thousand community members in Northern Tanzania gathered to protest against the government's plan to evict people of Loliondo from their ancestral land. According to… Read more »
October 19, 2021
South Africa: Why Supporting Small-Scale Farmers and Eating Locally is Climate Smart #AfricaClimateCrisis
Every day, the food we consume connects us to a vast global network of food manufacturers, farmers, retailers, traders, and many others involved in bringing food… Read more »
October 06, 2021
Africa: Indigenous People at Centre of Protecting Ecosystems #AfricaClimateCrisis
Indigenous peoples are increasingly being acknowledged for their protection and management of land, water bodies and wildlife. As their culture and livelihood are intimately… Read more »
April 21, 2021
Africa: More Protected Areas Not the Solution to Climate Change - Survival International
While humanity is scrambling to prevent the cascading effects of climate change, a new global plan to turn 30% of the earth into environmental sanctuaries by 2030 is not the… Read more »
April 19, 2021
Africa: When Will Women Have Equal Access to Land?
In Kenya, residents of a women-only village established in 1990 were finally granted ownership of their tract of land this month. In Tanzania, the government affirmed its… Read more »
December 23, 2020
Africa: South Africa's Land and Women's Rights Activist Sizani Ngubane Dies
South African women's land rights activist Sizani Ngubane has died, according to the Rural Women's Movement (RWM) - an organisation of which she was the director and founder. Read more »
December 07, 2020
Nigeria: Authorities Must Urgently Heed Pledges to Counter Boko Haram Violence - Peace Scholar
The Boko Haram terrorist group claimed to have killed 78 people in Nigeria's Borno State last week. The bodies of at least 40 migrant rice farmers, working in Zabarmari village,… Read more »
February 14, 2020
Africa: How Climate Climate Change Contributes to Insecurity
In this allAfrica explainer we delve into the relationship between climate change and conflict on the continent Read more »
October 17, 2019
Africa: World Poverty Day - An Opportunity to Reimagine the Future of African Youth
Commemorating World Poverty Eradication day presents an opportune moment to reflect on the status of Africa’s journey of development as a means for the continent to step out… Read more »
August 08, 2019
South Africa: How More Women in Agriculture Will Ensure Food Security, Tackle Land Reform
Addressing gender disparities in the agricultural sector is a prerequisite to increasing women and youth participation in the sector, creating much-needed employment opportunities… Read more »
July 24, 2019
Africa: How to Move Towards a More Peaceful Nigeria
Fatima Madaki is a young peacebuilder working with Search for Common Ground Nigeria, a non-governmental organization which focuses on peacebuilding in communities where citizens… Read more »
April 11, 2019
South Africa: Mnangagwa a Sellout Who Won't Finish His Term - Malema
South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has lashed out at Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa for his plans to pay compensation to white farmers who… Read more »
January 15, 2019
Africa: Could South Africa Become a 'Fragile State'?
State failure has become a 21st century analytical preoccupation. It is traditionally defined by the inability of key state institutions to deliver public goods to their citizens… Read more »
December 20, 2018
Zimbabwe: The Struggle to End HIV Epidemic in Rural Mwenezi
On the steep hills and mountains of Mwenezi - a rural district situated in southern Zimbabwe - is where you find hundreds of villagers living with some of the highest rates of HIV… Read more »
December 11, 2018
South Africa: Be Prepared to Die When Fighting Injustice - Xolobeni Leader Nonhle Mbuthuma
As the world commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, women activists around the world were celebrated for being at the forefront of the… Read more »
August 23, 2018
Africa: Land Tweet - Obama's Ambassador to South Africa Hits Out at Trump, Senators React
President Barack Obama's ambassador to South Africa, Patrick Gaspard, has attacked President Donald Trump's claim that the country's farmers are being killed on a "large scale". Read more »
June 26, 2018
South Africa: Land Expropriation - What Does South Africa Have to Say?
As the first of 36 public hearings regarding land expropriation without compensation gets under way, South African citizens have taken to Twitter for further discussion on the… Read more »
January 13, 2018
South Africa: Ramaphosa Outlines Plans for Radical Change - With Assurances
The African National Congress's new leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, sketched out a path for the party's future on Saturday which carefully balanced demands for radical change to address… Read more »
May 25, 2016
Africa: Rural E-Commerce Model Pitched for Africa
The operator of an e-commerce program which reaches deep into rural China believes that its business model could help Africans in areas far from cities. Read more »
July 15, 2015
Africa: Good Governance and Democracy Make for Better Land Use - Expert
On the sidelines of the recent meeting on climate science in Paris, AllAfrica spoke with Ephraim Nkonya, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research… Read more »
July 09, 2015
Africa: African Scientists Promote Solutions to Mitigate Climate Change
Leading African experts at the scientific conference in Paris which is preparing for the next round of global climate change talks in December have been discussing their work with… Read more »
February 29, 2012
Liberia: The Plantation Blues
Fiercely contested during different stages of Liberia's civil war, the western region of Grand Cape Mount County now plays host to a very different kind of confrontation. Read more »
January 27, 2012
Liberia: The Cocoa Comeback
"That is still a tall order," Michael Titoe says with a chuckle as he contemplates Liberia launching its own brand name chocolate. A fellow of the World Cocoa Foundation and… Read more »