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Bonn climate talks end with key questions unresolved ahead of COP31
Slow progress on climate finance, just transition, and fossil fuel phase-out highlights the growing disconnect between political negotiations and the urgency of the climate crisis.
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Welcome to the Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Kenya. Please ignore the sewage.
The 11th Our Ocean Conference - the first ever held on African soil - brings together governments, corporations, scientists and civil society organisations under the sweeping banner of "Our Ocean, Our Heritage, Our Future."The venue is Mombasa. A city drowning. Not metaphorically. Literally.
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Meru’s elephants have a maternity area. Kenya is building an airstrip right next to it.
Every dry season, the elephants of Mt. Kenya come home to Imenti. It is where they return when water grows scarce elsewhere.
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Initial White smoke from Bonn: As we pave the way for the COP 31 in Turkiye, what’s happened so far?
The first week has seen countries push to make progress on climate action, including on items such as climate finance, climate adaptation, mitigation, just transition, energy, ambition as anchored in the Paris Agreement.
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World Food Safety Day 2026: Africa’s Youth to Leaders – If It Is Not Safe, It Is Not Food
On 7th June, governments and institutions around the world marked World Food Safety Day with statements, commitments, and carefully worded pledges. My generation marked it differently, with questions about why the food system that is supposed to feed our future is poisoning it instead.
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A peaceful haven on Senegal’s Petite Côte
Across the Sine-Saloum Delta, they hold the shoreline together the way a mother steadies a child learning to walk. When storms gather strength and waves crash against the coast, the mangroves take the first blow.
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They came to grieve Nairobi National Park. They left in police trucks.
Kenyans gathered to mourn. Not a person, but a place. They came for a funeral procession for Nairobi National Park, the world's only national park inside a capital city, gazetted in 1946 and now facing yet another bite out of its protected land.
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Rural women are on the front line of the climate crisis. It is time the world acts like it.
This year's World Environment Day theme "From awareness to action" sounds urgent. But for the millions of rural women living alongside logging concessions, industrial agriculture and mining sites across Africa urgency is not a theme.
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When the land speaks back: Tanzania’s Maasai are rejecting carbon credits on their land. The world should pay attention.
Somewhere in northern Tanzania, a Maasai elder knows the name of every ridge on the rangeland his cattle have grazed for decades. He knows which valleys hold water in a dry season, which corridors to follow when the rains fail, which months to move and which months to stay.
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The rising lakes of Kenya’s Rift Valley are swallowing communities whole
This is not a flood story. Floods recede. This is something else entirely: a lake that has been swallowing the Rift Valley for over a decade, and the communities stranded at its edge, waiting for help that has not come.