Lubumbashi

DRC: In Lubumbashi, the rupture of a contaminated water retention basin...

This is the neighborhood most affected by the ongoing environmental and health catastrophe in Lubumbashi, in eastern DRC. In Kasapa, a leak...
https://fr.mongabay.com/2025/03/les-defenseurs-de-lenvironnement-et-des-droits-de-lhomme-prennent-la-fuite-et-se-refugient-alors-que-le-m23-sempare-des-villes-de-la-rdc/

Eastern DRC: Increase in violence and rights violations targeting environmental defenders...

The occupation by AFC/M23 rebels of several territories, including Goma and Bukavu, has complicated the lives of environmental defenders who had sought...
https://medd.gouv.cd/curriculum-vitae-de-madame-le-vice-premier-ministre-et-ministre-de-lenvironnement-et-developpement-durable-eve-bazaiba-masudi/

Alleged embezzlement of public funds involving DRC’s Minister of State for...

In an official statement signed by its communications advisor, Michel Koyakpa Zuakondiri, the Ministry strongly condemns these allegations, which it describes as...
https://www.topafricanews.com/2025/02/10/democratic-green-party-of-rwanda-champions-democracy-and-sustainability-in-musanze-meeting/

Democratic Green Party of Rwanda Raises Awareness on Participatory Democracy and...

Led by its President, Dr Frank Habineza, the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (DGPR) held a grand rally...
https://www.rtbf.be/article/hausse-du-nombre-d-attaques-en-rdc-cette-annee-l-onu-inquiete-10722990

DRC: Feeling insecure, human rights defenders call for a review of...

Promulgated on June 15, 2023, the law relating to the protection and responsibility of the human rights defender in the Democratic Republic...
https://www.greenpeace.org/africa/fr/communiques-de-presse/2154/la-rdc-menace-douvrir-la-deuxieme-plus-grande-foret-tropicale-du-monde-a-de-nouveaux-exploitants-industriels/

DRC: Alert on the illegal export of sawn timber to Uganda

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), environmental civil society organizations denounce the fraudulent export of sawn timber...
© WFP/Nkole Mwape A cornfield blighted by drought in Zambia, one of the countries that has declared an emergency as it grapples with the effects of El Niño.

Southern Africa: Five countries in state of disaster, WFP warns of...

The origin of this crisis is the El Niño climate phenomenon, which lasted until the beginning of the...
https://www.amnesty.org/fr/latest/news/2024/06/drc-president-tshisekedi-must-use-second-term-to-tackle-human-rights-crisis/

DRC: President Félix Tshisekedi must be held accountable for human rights...

At the start of his first term in 2019, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi promised to protect human...
https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/other-sources/article/?id=14629282&title=Conflict-and-climate-change-are-supercharging-malaria,-but-it-can-be-stopped

Climate change could increase the spread of malaria in Africa

The authors of this research, who combined new experimental data in an innovative modeling framework to examine how temperature could affect transmission...
https://environews-rdc.net/2024/05/27/environnement-le-5eme-congres-de-la-feva-a-axe-les-reflexions-sur-lavenir-de-la-planete/

The 5th congress of the Federation of African Greens held in...

The work of the 5th edition of the Congress of the “Federation of African Greens (FEVA)” dedicated to the issues and challenges...
https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1392569/economie-entreprises/hydrocarbures-rdc-il-ny-a-aucune-convention-dans-le-monde-qui-interdise-a-un-pays-demettre-du-co2-pour-les-besoins-de-son-developpement/

DR Congo: Minister Eve Bazaiba called to explain the allocation of...

Greenpeace, which is an international network of independent organizations which act according to the principles of non-violence to protect the environment, biodiversity...
https://cridem.org/C_Info.php?article=771539

Zambia faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has launched an urgent appeal for international aid to tackle an unprecedented humanitarian crisis hitting his country. The...
https://fr.le360.ma/economie/strategie-energetique-les-avancees-du-maroc-mises-en-relief_46QDTTPNKNE3BH7OE5JD2XRSEI/

In Morocco, the Minister of Energy Transition is suspected of conflict...

The affair sparked intense controversy in Morocco. The scandal, nicknamed "the Paris incident", erupted after the publication of an alleged intimate photo...
https://x.com/PHC_RDC/status/1483402032484651012

In the DRC, communities try to recover their lands plundered by...

Clashes were recorded last week in one of the concessions of the company Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) in Lokutu in...
https://www.afrik21.africa/gabon-le-changement-climatique-affame-les-elephants-du-parc-de-la-lope/

Gabon: President Oligui Nguema has authorized populations to kill elephants that...

Gabon alone is home to between 65% and 70% of all African forest elephants today, making it the largest reservoir in the...
https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068795096811

Green Party in Madagascar calls for calm and electoral integrity

The political tensions which have risen in recent weeks worry the Green party, which advocates the need for a calm electoral climate....
https://mapecology.ma/institutions/afourer-parti-verts-marocain-tient-congres-national/

The Moroccan Green Party strengthens the capacities of women within the...

There were several dozen of them who responded to this invitation. Women working within the Green Party of Morocco attended a training...
https://web.facebook.com/photo?fbid=611516974343609&set=pcb.611517364343570&locale=fr_FR

Political ecology at the center of discussions at the 2nd Congress...

The work of the second statutory congress of the Moroccan Greens Party was held at the Le Tarzakount...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/14/can-zambia-save-its-environment-with-marijuana

Zambia: Green Party chairman faces threats and intimidation over Constitutional Court...

The life of the chairman of the Green Party of Zambia is said to...
https://orientxxi.info/magazine/climate-change-devastates-the-sahel,4152

Climate change has worsened devastating floods in West Africa

Climate change has increased the likelihood of intense rains 80 times, causing historic floods...
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Environment/Climate-Change/COP27/COP27-nears-breakthrough-on-climate-finance-in-scramble-for-final-deal

COP27 in Egypt ended without new ambitions for the reduction of...

After more than two weeks, the major UN climate conference, which opened on November...
https://www.afrik21.africa/en/south-africa-pilanesberg-mine-to-get-75-mw-of-clean-energy-by-2024/

Climate crisis: South African coal exports multiplied by eight in ten...

Coal exports jumped 700% due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The lack of gas...
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/467535-analysis-buhari-repeated-past-rhetorics-wrong-data-in-recent-interview.html

Climate change: Nigerian President Buhari accuses Western countries

The UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt continues. After the first week of negotiations with mixed results...
https://artsakh.news/en/news/236587

Africa faces its worst food crisis in 40 years.

Africa is facing its worst food crisis in 40 years. Nearly 114 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, Almost...
https://news.sky.com/story/cop27-rishi-sunak-will-not-attend-climate-summit-in-egypt-next-month-number-10-confirms-12731621

The road to COP27: challenges for African countries

The COP27, which will be held from November 6 to 18 in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, gives hope...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/32893145166

In South Africa, African penguins threatened by the bird flu virus

Scientists are worried about the effects of this epidemic which has already killed around thirty Cape penguins settled in a colony on...
https://web.facebook.com/soleilrdc/?_rdc=1&_rdr

Ecology in Africa, a new green party is born in the...

If they are struggling to impose themselves on the political chessboards, the African green parties are spreading there more and more. The...
https://www.preventionweb.net/news/climate-change-triggers-mounting-food-insecurity-poverty-and-displacement-africa

Africa emits less than 4% of global CO2 emissions but pays...

As the continent actively prepares to host the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27, to be held this year in Sharm...
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/721542495/the-problem-with-banning-plastic-bags

Tunisia: the Ministry of the Environment bans the manufacture of plastic...

The decision taken by the Tunisian Ministry of the Environment to ban the manufacture of certain types of...
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/04/215337/moroccan-health-office-no-watermelon-fertilized-human-waste

Morocco: Environmentalists plead for the end of the cultivation of watermelon...

Ecologists are worried about the growing water stress that Morocco has been suffering from for several years. The country is in the...
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/queen-loggerhead-sea-turtle-rescue-y77149

In Cape Verde, plastic waste washed up on beaches threatens loggerhead...

Cape Verde is an island state in West Africa considered the third country in the world with the...
https://savoirs.rfi.fr/fr/comprendre-enrichir/economie/accaparement-des-terres-en-afrique

Africa: the increase in cultivated areas threatens forests and biodiversity

Each year nearly 3.9 million hectares of cultivated land is expanded in Africa, comparable to the 1.5 million hectares per year in...
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/afrique/environnement-africain/rdc-les-dechets-plastiques-accumules-dans-le-lac-kivu-provoquent-des-coupures-delectricite_5067923.html

DR Congo: plastic pollution causes power cuts

Thousands of bottles, cans and other rubbish thrown into the lake caused the shutdown of the Ruzizi dam facilities near the city...
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Pangolin, the endangered mammal most affected by illegal trade in Liberia

The Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in 2016 banned international trade in pangolins, some types of which are on the...
Desiccated corpses of goats, cows or donkeys in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Failure of four consecutive rainy seasons leads to severe drought

Dead animals parched with hunger and thirst litter the ground near Godé, a village where the inhabitants' survival and economy revolve around...
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/radar-helps-kenya-map-mangroves-and-other-cloud-covered-forests/

Mozambique: The government wants to replant up to 100 million trees...

Mozambique has a coastline of three thousand kilometers on the Indian Ocean. Its coasts are currently being eaten away by the onslaught...