Elephants in Bugungu wildlife reserve, Buliisa district

Oil Money Heralds Trouble For Uganda’s Indigenous Bagungu Tribe, Environment

2 years ago
BULIISA, Uganda — Baboons wander through shrub-lands that line the sides of newly built roads straddling Uganda’s wildlife reserves close to the shores of oil-rich Lake Albert. Across the...
Miners at an open cast Granite mine in Mutoko

Aiding Poverty By Smuggling A Rare Black Stone For 30 Pieces Of Silver

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For Claudious Murungweni (not his real name), a 35-year-old bus conductor plying the Zimbabwe-South Africa cross-border route, the corruption and smuggling of a low base mineral has turned around...
President Yoweri Museveni gives a speech at the event to mark the signing of the final investment decision that will kick start the development of Uganda’s vast crude oil reserves

Uganda Oil Companies Shrug Off Environmental Concerns To Advance $10 Billion Oil Project

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KAMPALA, Uganda — The Ugandan government, backed by French and Chinese investors recently announced a final investment decision to kick start the long-delayed development of Uganda’s vast crude oil...
50 year old Peace Mukulungu, a resident of Ntinda, Kampala is an Aquaponics farming project beneficiary. She is now able to feed her family and earn income from her aquaponics farming project

Aquaponics Farming Helps Ugandan Women Regain Lost Livelihoods From The Pandemic

3 years ago
KAMPALA, Uganda — On a hill above Kampala’s city suburb of Ntinda, new farmer Peace Mukulungu looks over her aquaponics farming project she says is slowly allowing her to...
A limestone and marble mining site in Tapac Sub-county

Karamoja Mining Rush Threatens Livelihoods of Indigenous People

3 years ago
Billions of investments into mining projects have breathed new life in Uganda’s once-neglected Karamoja region, creating thousands of jobs in mineral-rich heartlands near the Kenyan border but the investment...
President opens Port of Lamu

President Kenyatta Launches Port Of Lamu Amid Uproar From Environmentalists In Coastal Kenya

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Kenya’s President, Uhuru Kenyatta on the 3rd week of May inaugurated the Lamu Port that seeks to link the Indian Ocean to the ambitious regional project, the Lamu Port...
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The Ghanaian Christians Working For The Salvation Of A Dying Earth

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Before jumping into her first sermon for 2021, Rev. Agnes Philips took time to stress something to her largely middle-class congregation in the Legon Interdenominational Church. Concern for the...
Mwangi cleaning the environment at Grogon in Nairobi

Kenyan Street Families Take Up Street Cleanup In Nairobi

4 years ago
Nairobi, January 22 — For more than half a century, John Mwangi has lived in the streets, the only place he’s known as being his home. He has seen...
Houses on forbidden grounds

Chaotic Construction Fuels Climate Change In Zimbabwe

4 years ago
Harare — His house stands out in the midst of water, with the entire driveway concealed under water, apparently with nowhere to step on, yet for 15 years, 50-year-old Jimson...
Artisanal gold mining in Uganda fuels mercury pollution

Gold Mining Boom In Uganda Fuels Mercury Pollution, Spells Doom For The Environment

4 years ago
It’s before sunrise but artisanal gold miner Rose Namukasa is already scouring muddy water for small nuggets of gold in this mining area in Mubende, central Uganda, one of...
Mara River degradation

A Million Livelihoods In Kenya, Tanzania At Risk As Mara River Fish Driven To...

4 years ago
By Rorya, Tanzania — At Koryo village, in Tanzania’s northern Rorya district brightly dressed women flock to the river with piles of their laundry bags. Some of them walk for...
Kilimanjaro on fire

Deforestation Endangers Kilimanjaro’s Tourism

4 years ago
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania — As firefighters were battling raging inferno on Mt. Kilimanjaro, plumes of smoke belching into the sky captured the destruction on Africa’s highest mountain and its surrounding...
Environmental activists in a consultative meeting with the EACOP project affected people in Kitenga Mubende district

Uganda’s Quest For Sustainable Energy Poses Fresh Environmental Threats

4 years ago
A flurry of oil and gas discoveries along Uganda’s western border has lured dozens of investors seeking to develop sub-Saharan Africa’s largest oil discovery in decades. However, renewed interest...
Beehives in Dangamvura scares away residents who look for firewood in the mountains

Of Energy Crisis, Beekeeping And Forest Conservation In Zimbabwe

4 years ago
Mutare, Zimbabwe — Growing up in Ngaone, Chipinge in the southeastern town of Zimbabwe, Ishmael Sithole (35) still recalls bees could not entertain anyone cutting down a tree near...
The oil leaked from a Japanese vessel after it had been in the reefs for about 12 days.

How Locals In Mauritius Are Spearheading The Cleanup Campaign After An Oil Spill

4 years ago
Mauritius — On a sunny day in Mahébourg southeast of Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean about 2,000 kilometers off the south-east coast of the African continent,...
Wozi Primary School Students

Looming Conflict As Loggers Scramble For Waning Forest

4 years ago
Mzuzu — Around 1964, Malawi’s first Head of State introduced an ambitious project to turn one of the mountain ranges in the country into a forest. What followed was...
The Kenya Wildlife Service plans to set up buildings inside the Nairobi National Park, threatening its biodiversity.

Kenya Wildlife’s plan to build a hotel in the Nairobi National Park attracts an...

5 years ago
In the past decades, the Nairobi National Park has not missed accompanying the word ‘encroachment’ in one sentence. This has always been the case of activists and environmentalists seeking...
Submerged houses due to floods.

Continued Floods In East Africa Threatening To Jeopardize Fight Against COVID-19 Spread

5 years ago
BUDALANGI April 5, 2020 — For 54-year-old Esther Anyango, who resides in Maduwa village nestled in the swampy Yala, an island within the Lake Victoria waters is not her...
Sand poaching in Zimbabwe's towns, cities.

Gravel soil, sand poaching fuel water bodies’ siltation in Zimbabwe

5 years ago
HARARE — At the top of a hill, bulldozers and caterpillars maneuver their way, slicing off the hill of its remaining sections as they almost approach an enormous concrete...
Timber demand brewing deforestation.

Zimbabwe’s timber riding to extinction

5 years ago
MUTARE — At first, it was a dense timber forestry. Then came the 2000 land reform program at the advent of 76-year old Obson Nyahanga into the picture, taking...

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The New Frontline: Youth Uprisings Across Africa Spark A Fight For Democracy And Dignity

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