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50% of countries highly affected by climate change are in Africa – Patrick Low

Sudan, Ethiopia, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Tunisia, Mali, Mozambique, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Eritrea, Algeria, Sudan, Benin, Rwanda, Chad, Kenya, and Libya are just a few...

Egypt’s oil pollution endangers the survival of coral reefs

A BBC-led investigation has discovered that pollution from an Egyptian oil facility on the Red Sea coast is threatening the survival of some of...

Ghana’s environmental activist takes fight against ‘galamsey’ to COP27

Ghanaian environmental activist Gideon Commey has taken the fight against illegal mining, also known as “galamsey”, to the climate change conference (COP27) at Sharm...

The choking pollution of Egypt’s capital

The World Health Organization has said that 99% of the planet’s population breaths air that threatens their health. It’s a shocking statistic, and nowhere is...

Days after escalating hunger strike, a British-Egyptian activist is undergoing ‘medical intervention’

On Sunday, the first day of the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Alaa Abd El-Fattah stopped eating and began refusing water. According to...

Economic crisis: US to provide $80.5 million in aid to Lebanon

The United States announced on Wednesday that it will provide $80.5 million in aid to Lebanon for food assistance and solar-powered water pumping stations. Samantha...

Why Indonesia is abandoning its capital city to save it

Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, faces such challenges due to climate change that the plan is to build a new capital city more than 1,000 kilometres...

UN rights chief: Life of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in grave danger

Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has urged Egypt to release hunger striker and popular activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah immediately.The life...

Swap our debts for climate interventions – Akufo-Addo to rich countries

President Akufo-Addo has asked rich countries to allow heavily indebted poor African countries to swap their debts with climate interventions. The President has been addressing...

UK, EU to collaborate to find solutions to the Northern Ireland Protocol

The European Commission and UK leaders have agreed to collaborate to address "very real problems" with the post-Brexit trade deal. According to Sunak's office, Britain's...

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