While the region is about to experience economic wins, oil and natural gas exploration must only continue if scientifically tight and if environmental and social factors are ... Read more »
Speaking at a UN high level meeting on the Sahel, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that political and economic turmoil and a severe food crisis are combining to ... Read more »
Water experts say Zimbabwe is not doing well in terms of providing clean water and sanitation to communities in both urban and rural areas. Read more »
Anti-fracking activists have upped the ante against the exploration for gas in the Karoo by lamenting the failure of government to regulate mining pollution, and have called for a ... Read more »
Covering 31 percent of the planet, forests play a fundamental role in conserving biodiversity and sustaining life for millions of people, but poor forest management practices are ... Read more »
A new report by the rights group Amnesty International has called for a criminal investigation over the 2006 dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan by the Dutch multinational company, ... Read more »
A U.S-based agribusiness is stirring up controversy over its huge palm oil project in Cameroon where environmentalists have warned it will destroy the rainforest and displace ... Read more »
As over half of the kingdom's population live in chronic poverty, people have been warned of the health risks of eating carcasses following the death of about 10,000 cattle due to ... Read more »
The government has turned to a nutrition act and new crops to curb the country's crop failure and high food prices. Read more »
According to a bill sponsored by Senator Bukola Saraki, which seeks to amend the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Act 2006, Nigeria will lose over U.S.$4 billion as a ... Read more »
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