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Op-Ed | Slam the Kenya-US Plastic Proposal, Focus on the Climate Crisis
The UNEP acknowledged Kenya’s “stewardship” in the continental fight against plastic pollution; but, if the past fews months are anything to go by, its notoriously stringent anti-plastic laws may not have as firm a grip
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To the women fighting to protect our ocean and food security: Thank you!
Close your eyes. Imagine yourself standing on a sandy beach listening to the sounds of the ocean as the waves are washing in. It’s magic isn't it? Indeed, it’s paradise
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Toxic Pesticides Employed in The Control of Desert Locusts
Since 2019, Kenya has experienced an unprecedented threat from the desert locust invasion. This invasion that is linked to climate change puts millions of Kenyans at risk of food and nutrition insecurity.
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Why is Fossil Capital incompatible with social justice?
The world we live in has been built around an economic system that prioritises never ending growth over the welfare of people and planet. And fossil fuels are at the…
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Making room for Co-creation in 2021
Global climate strike in Johannesburg, South Africa. Across the globe, millions of people have taken to the streets to demand action on climate.
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Outbreaks of waterborne diseases due to cyclones
Eloise is the third major cyclone to hit Southern Africa since 2019, causing displacement, destruction of homes, schools, crops and vital infrastructure in Mozambique, as well as Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Botswana
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Year 2021: an opportunity to reshape the future?
2020 – ouff some may say! But can we really congratulate ourselves and say we’ve done it? 2020 came with a lot of unexpected challenges for us as individuals and…
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Climate change and overfishing – an explosive cocktail in West Africa
Torn between the advancement of desertification and drought on the one hand and floods, sea level increases and coastal erosion on the other, the West African region, which has 340 million inhabitants spread over 16 countries, is one of the three regions battling the climatic humanitarian disaster of our century.
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20 Things to take from 2020
In many obvious ways, the past year is a period that would best be forgotten. A once-in-a-century pandemic that brought with it a high death toll and sickness, loneliness and depression, economic pain and house evictions.
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Where there’s smoke
eMbalenhle township, settled in the coalfields of Mpumalanga province. These are the people over whom Sasol has always chosen its profits. These are their stories.