Monthly Archives: February, 2016

Climate Change

Southern Africa prepares for El Niño impact

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) secretariat on Thursday (February 25, 2016) convened a two-day multi-sectoral stakeholder consultative meeting to develop a regional preparedness...

admin - February 25, 2016

Water & Sanitation

Ghanaian legislators demand explanations for water crisis

Usually, it is the agitations of residents that give an indication of water shortage, scarcity or crisis. But when a nation’s legislature become the...

admin - February 25, 2016

Climate Change

Fiji begins post-Cyclone Winston cleanup amid call for climate action

A massive clean-up operation has begun on the Pacific Island of Fiji after a powerful cyclone. Cyclone Winston hit the island recently, with winds of...

Michael Simire - February 24, 2016

Sustainable Devpt

How firm is impacting biodiversity, livelihood in Africa, by Greenpeace

A new Greenpeace France investigations on Socfin, a company owned 38.75% by Bolloré group, has revealed the impact of the company’s plantations on forests,...

admin - February 24, 2016

Cover

Food security concerns as cocoyam disappears in Arochukwu

Cocoyam, a root crop, for many years served as a major source of revenue for rural women in the ancient town of Arochukwu in Abia...

admin - February 24, 2016

Cover

New COP21 president sets agenda to build Paris Agreement momentum

The new President of the UN climate change process, French Minister of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, Ségolène Royal, on Monday February 22,...

admin - February 23, 2016

Water & Sanitation

ERA/FoEN to Lagos: Budgetary allocation to water dreadfully low

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has called on the Lagos State Government to come up with a more realistic allocation...

admin - February 23, 2016

Water & Sanitation