Changing the narrative on Africa.
The search for natural, locally-sourced products which truly work became personal for Ethiopian entrepreneur Feven Tsehaye. The result: an enterprise that transforms indigenous forest plants into high-value products the world has long overlooked.
West African states are moving from fragmented oversight to coordinated regional control of their oceans. The push aims to curb illegal fishing, rebuild coastal economies, and protect biodiversity. Success could turn years of lost marine wealth into lasting regional economic opportunity.
From southern Africa’s coasts to aquariums abroad, a new model of cross-border conservation is taking shape around one of the continent’s most threatened species, the African penguin.
Three years ago, two young men began walking the streets of Mwanza, Tanzania’s second-largest city, sacks in hand, collecting discarded plastics. With no machines, no funding, and some hope, Patrick John Kipesha and Ignatius Anchar Mushi soldiered on, driven by a simple conviction of keeping their neighbourhood clean.
Every morning, Hamadi Juma, a 32-year-old from Dar es Salaam’s Temeke district rolls his three-wheeled motorized tricycle, popularly known as a bajaji, out of his backyard. On his way to pick up passengers he stops to fill up with Compressed Natural Gas.
Antony Kirori’s solution to Kenya’s pencil shortage? Since paper was also derived from trees, why not make pencils from paper?
Alassane Samoura founded his water museum to inspire answers to issues around water and climate. Almost twenty years later, the discussions are even more critical.
The world’s only living relative of the giraffe has just received its strongest global protection yet.
This interview with Mitchelle Mhaka, Regional Expansion Lead at the African Climate Alliance, explores Afrocentric climate justice, youth power, and ACA’s landmark Cancel Coal victory.
New research led by African scientists has confirmed that giraffes are not one species but four, a reclassification set to improve global conservation strategies, with