Abidjan, Ivory Coast// — Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (www.AfricaFC.org), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has reached financial close and disbursed €43 million under the Poro Power Green Bond, the first project finance green bond in Cote d’Ivoire and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU).
In the quiet evenings in Ablekuma-Fanmilk, a suburb in Ghana’s Greater Accra Region, thirteen-year-old Abdul Latif and his younger brother, Ali, walk from house to house carrying a small sack.
Ashanti region’s water security is facing a growing threat as two of the main treatment plants supplying the Greater Kumasi metropolis are gradually being choked by silt and heavy pollution of plastics.
Used and discarded indiscriminately, plastics often end up in gutters, on street corners, or burning in red-lit heaps at night. But inside the Material Recovery Facility in Accra, the same plastic is handled with care.
As countries scramble to secure the minerals needed for clean energy, digital technologies, AI, and defense industries, the new era of resource competition implies both great promise and grave peril. Transparency is essential to ensure that producer countries are not left poorer, more divided, and more indebted than before. AUCKLAND/MONROVIA – With the global order […]
Andrew King, The University of Melbourne It’s no secret our planet is heating up.
As global energy markets reel from renewed conflict in the Middle East, Africa can no longer afford to ignore the link between fossil fuel dependence and economic vulnerability.
Kampala, Uganda// — The Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Climate Change (UPFCC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) and Climate Change Hub International aimed at strengthening climate governance, legislative capacity and stakeholder coordination.
A new international poll commissioned by World Animal Protection in collaboration with Blood Lions reveals overwhelming opposition, both internationally and within South Africa, to any reversal of the country’s planned phase-out of commercial captive lion breeding.
Mozambique//-Across Southern Africa, inequality is felt daily at a household level. The Africa Gender Index (2023) reports that women across Africa have achieved just over 50% gender parity, with the weakest outcomes in economic participation and leadership.
