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Sectors in Ghana join hands to reduce rising air pollution.
Accra Ghana: Ghana began monitoring air quality in 1996. Over the years, several sectors have collaborated to reduce air pollution caused by transportation and solid waste management, of which...
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Critical Minerals: has Africa learned from its past experience?
African nations are blessed with 30 percent of the world’s critical minerals. Minerals that the world needs to develop solar panels, wind turbines, renewable energy storage, electric vehicles, defence infrastructures, communication infrastructure, digital economy and many more. However, past mining activities since colonial era...
Human Greed: The Silent Destroyer of Nature’s Fragile Balance.
Humanly speaking everything existing in nature from forests, minerals, oceans, water bodies, and other natural resources are seen as infinite by the human eye. Infinite in the sense that there are more resources to be mined or prospected for, more land to be utilised,...
Why planting mangroves is not the solution.
As forests, mangroves are very adaptable and can handle a lot of disturbances. “I don’t support planting mangroves; instead, I support finding entire answers to the problems that mangroves face” says Dr. Judith Okello, a senior study scientist and mangrove ecologist at the Kenya...
Empowering Women, Revitalizing Mangroves: A Story from Kenya
Munje, Mswambeni Kenya, In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, 15 women came together to preserve a portion of mangrove forest along the Vanga-Funzi Bay section on the southern coast of Kenya. Four years later, the Tunusuru Conservation Women’s Group has grown into a 30-member...
Meet a Kenyan community saving the coral reefs.
Along the Pate-Kiunga area in Lamu County, a small archipelago north of Mombasa in Kenya, Coral reefs have degraded over the years. in Pate Island, the largest island in the Lamu Archipelago, lies between the towns of Lamu and Kiunga, More than 3, 000...
Spring water changing lives in Kenya.
Women in Olailamutia, a town in Kenya’s Narok County, have had problems with diarrhoea, stomachaches, and skin rashes for many years. Having access to clean drinking water from a spring is helping to get rid of these problems. Families here got water to drink...
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Critical Minerals: has Africa learned from its past experience?