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Displaced and forgotten: Kenya’s Rift Valley lake’s floods a year later.
Have the persons displaced by the 2020 flooding Kenya’s Rift Valley Lakes been forgotten? As Kenya rolls out a Covid-19 vaccination drive amid the country struggling with the third...
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Legislative Frameworks: The Key to an Energy Transition Focused on Human Rights
Clear frameworks for community benefit sharing in the mining and renewable energy sectors are essential. However, Manson Gwanyanya, the researcher and representative for South and Anglophone Africa at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, told the African Climate Conversations podcast that implementing these...
How can airlines help bridge existing weather data gaps?
Weather information is critical for communities, industries, and development sectors to adapt to climate change. Despite the severity and frequency of extreme weather events, there are significant gaps in weather observations and early warning services in Africa. However, on today’s episode, Dr. Abubakr Salih...
Meet a Kenyan teacher teaching children crucial environmental skills.
Our children are the next generation. We, as humans, pass on our legacy to them, whether good or bad. Environmental skills helps children understand the importance of preserving our natural resources and provides them with the tools to become responsible environmental stewards. Hence, teaching...
How WhatsApp transformed 70-year-old Kenyan woman’s beaded basket sales
This week, I was visiting a town in Makueni County, located in the southeastern part of Kenya. About an hour’s drive from Makueni’s capital town Wote, I met a 70-year-old lady who, after a severe three-year drought hit the village, learned how to weave...
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,...
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Legislative Frameworks: The Key to an Energy Transition Focused on Human Rights