Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Africa.
Africa’s Great Green Wall will only combat desertification and poverty by harnessing local solutions, theconversation.com (Oct 08, 2024)
- Why we need to talk about older people and climate change in Africa, theconversation.com (Sep 30, 2024)
- In Somalia, global warming makes a war-torn country even worse. But there’s also passion—and enterprise—for regenerative energy solutions, Daily Alternative (Sep 19, 2024)
- Forest and water source restoration in Cameroon offering sustainable solutions, news.mongabay.com (Sep 16, 2024)
- South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change?, theconversation.com (Sep 10, 2024)
- The resilience of women farmers in Chad battling climate challenges and social barriers, news.mongabay.com (Aug 29, 2024)
- For South Africa’s amaMpondo fighting to protect nature, ‘Everything is a being’, news.mongabay.com (Aug 19, 2024)
- Madagascar’s mangroves making a comeback, news.mongabay.com (Aug 14, 2024) — engagement with coastal communities is critical to empower those communities to protect the local mangroves that they depend on.
- Ancient Tracking Skills and New Tech Are Protecting Namibia’s Endangered Pangolins, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 09, 2024)
- Green economy could generate 3.3m jobs across Africa by 2030 – report, theguardian.com (Jul 26, 2024)
- Urban greening in Africa will help to build climate resilience – planners and governments need to work with nature, theconversation.com (Jul 22, 2024)
- African island state embraces the hunters to end turtle hunting, news.mongabay.com (Jul 17, 2024)
- Senegal’s remote Bassari people talk about climate change, and how their local knowledge is key to coping strategies, theconversation.com (Jun 11, 2024)
- South African communities vs Shell: high court victories show that cultural beliefs and practices count in climate cases, theconversation.com (May 18, 2024)
- How Women Are Helping Their Neighbors Heal From Depression, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 16, 2024)
- How Climate Impacts Mental Health in Africa, strongminds.org (Apr 10, 2024)
- Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are pushing for land rights, and curbing gender-based violence in the process, positive.news (Mar 29, 2024)
- Seven times size of Manhattan: the African tree-planting project making a difference, theguardian.com (Mar 13, 2024)
- The climate cafe helping eco-anxious Africans find hope amid the heat, positive.news (Mar 11, 2024)
- How a Nigerian ecofeminist grew a climate movement, chinadialogue.net (Mar 08, 2024) — After witnessing the violent impacts of warming, Oladosu Adenike started a national movement empowering young people to take action
- Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr - the tree-planting mayor of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, BBC News (Mar 04, 2024)
- ‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat, theguardian.com (Feb 29, 2024)
- Food forests grown by Nile Basin farmers restore wetlands and bring back a turtle, news.mongabay.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- ‘Our contribution to a cleaner world’: How Kenya found an extraordinary power source beneath its feet, theguardian.com (Jan 25, 2024)
- The township caravan tackling South Africa’s femicide problem – the African way, positive.news (Jan 24, 2024)
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- Farming support to communities living near wildlife reserve in Cameroon lowers rates of hunting, news.mongabay.com (Dec 19, 2023)
- Climate change: Saving Uganda's mountain gorillas, BBC News (Dec 01, 2023)
- Blue whales: Ocean giants return to 'safe' tropical haven, BBC News (Nov 23, 2023)
- Kenya declares surprise public holiday to plant trees, independent.co.uk (Nov 07, 2023)
- Chehe Community Forest Association playing a vital role in protecting and restoring Mount Kenya forest, news.mongabay.com (Nov 06, 2023)
- Kuza Nia: Meeting your purpose, neighbourhooddemocracy.org (Oct 13, 2023)
- Farmed rhinos will soon ‘rewild’ the African savanna, theconversation.com (Sep 22, 2023)
- The Samburu warriors regenerating a Kenyan wilderness, positive.news (Sep 18, 2023)
- Sea sponges offer lifeline to women in Zanzibar, bbc.com/future (Sep 13, 2023)
- Conservationists work to restore last remnant of a once-great Ugandan forest, news.mongabay.com (Aug 25, 2023)
- The climate future is here, and it looks like this proud commune in S Africa, africanarguments.org (Aug 22, 2023) — With solar power, urban farms, and radical grassroots democracy, eKhenana provides an impressive model for a sustainable low-carbon future.
- Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business, news.mongabay.com (Aug 21, 2023)
- The new approach to ending FGM that’s showing promise in Kenya, positive.news (Jul 10, 2023)
- Africa’s land and forest restoration initiative gathers pace in Malawi, news.mongabay.com (Jun 07, 2023)
- In Sierra Leone, post-civil war, you might live next to your amputator. Family talk (fambul tok) was a community resource for peace. It’s a lesson to our polarised societies, The Daily Alternative (Jun 02, 2023)
- Uganda’s Communal Food ‘Epicenters’ Aim to End Hunger Forever, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 26, 2023) — Pushing past the conventional food aid model, a regenerative farming system offers a recipe for success — and self-reliance. Peter Yeung
- Green Congo Initiative: a Youth Engagement for the Climate in the Heart of Africa, happyeconews.com (Apr 28, 2023)
- Environmental investigative journalism makes headway in Côte d'Ivoire: An interview with Ismael Angoh, Global Voices (Apr 05, 2023) — The work of environmental investigative journalists is essential, by Jean Sovon
- Saving Kenya’s Oloolua Forest, China Dialogue (Jan 30, 2023)
- The Maasai community that took on the Tanzanian government – and won, Positive News (Jan 11, 2023)
2022[edit | edit source]
- The Senegal man on a mission to plant five million trees, BBC News (Dec 28, 2022)
- Climate change killing elephants, says Kenya, BBC News (Jul 28, 2022)
- Epitaph for a baobab: remembering South African poet and activist Don Mattera, The Conversation (Jul 26, 2022)
- Elephants on the Move: 250 Elephants to be Relocated in Malawi, African Parks (Jun 21, 2022)
- Mountain gorillas: The ripple effect of conservation, BBC News (Jun 20, 2022)
- The village that stood up to big oil – and won, The Guardian (Jun 01, 2022)
- The man turning mud into eco-friendly 'concrete', BBC News (May 28, 2022)
- A billion of the world’s most climate-vulnerable people live in informal settlements – here’s what they face, The Conversation (Mar 22, 2022)
- As sea levels rise, coastal megacities will need more than flood barriers, The Conversation (Mar 15, 2022)
- The "Great Green Wall" of the Sahel, promising to halt the Sahara's advance, inspires both science and arts, The Alternative UK (Feb 20, 2022)
- African countries must protect their fish stocks from the European Union - here’s how, The Conversation (Feb 15, 2022)
- Cities must listen to people to find solutions for climate impacts: stories from Cape Town, The Conversation (Feb 14, 2022)
- We created the first AI-powered solar electricity backup system for houses in sub-Saharan Africa, The Conversation (Jan 25, 2022)
News sources
- African Arguments, "Articles are published on a Creative Commons licence." added 10:20, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
- New Narratives, Africans Reporting Africa - Video via vimeo.com
- AllAfrica.com: Environment - En Français - Wikipedia:AllAfrica
