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Africa is bearing the brunt of the global climate emergency. The UN says climate change threatens to expose over one hundred million vulnerable Africans to droughts, floods and extreme heat by 2030. One of the worst hit countries is Somalia. Almost 8 million people there, or about half the country’s …

Europe Plans to Exploit Africa’s Natural Gas Reserves Despite Climate Change Concerns | Europe Energy Crisis Desperate times call for desperate measures seems to be Europe’s mantra now. They knew they went horribly wrong in sanctioning Russia. What was meant to cut Moscow’s revenues boomeranged and resulted in a severe …

The international conference on climate change COP 27 opens this weekend in Egypt. It’s the first time since 2016 that the summit is happening on African soil. And it’s opportunity for the continent to address urgent issues. For example, according to some estimates, Africa loses between 7 to 15 billion …

Climate change and Urbanization are together increasing the water scarcity where the water demand exceeds availability for the world’s cities. Nairobi’s water demand currently stands at 810 million litres per day against a supply of 550 million litres per day with a deficit of 260 million litres. The impact of …