Endorois women in Kenya rally villagers to save community swamp.
Bogoria Kenya:In the 1970s, the Endorois community lost their grazing ground when Lake Baringo was registered as a national reserve. The Endorois community a Kenyan …
Special Episode with DW’s Living Planet
Today in a special program swap with DW- Living Planet we here how climate change is impacting women in girls, in Kenya. As temperature continue …
Slow climate disaster recovery dims hope in Kenya and Mozambique
As temperature rise, so does the losses in livelihoods and damages to key infrastructure hampering development and country planning. However, last year in Glasgow, UK, …
Kenyan middlemen killing research funds flow to researchers.
The Kenyan government has tried funding research, but intermediaries are killing the research flows between government and the researchers. “The current government allocated five billion …
Kenyan and Seychelles youths solving the plastic menace
Kibera- the biggest informal settlement in Kenya and possibly in the African continent. According to UN-Habitat, Kibera has the highest settlement density of any settlement …
Kenya’s capital city’s poor planning worsening air quality.
Until 2014 when the Nairobi Integrated Urban Development Master Plan (NIUPLAN) expected to guide the city until 2030 was drawn. NIUPLAN comes after the 1973 …
Investment in Adaptation is a must: warns IPCC Scientists.
Scientists warn that adaptation to climate change cannot lag anymore especially in Africa. A just released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the latest …
Nairobi’s billboards streaming the city’s air pollution.
The Nairobi City County has partnered with Kenya’s leading mobile network provider, Safaricom, and the UN Environment to monitor and measure air pollution levels in …
Sectors in Ghana join hands to reduce rising air pollution.
Ghana’s air quality monitoring started back in 1996. Over the years, different sectors have joined hands to curb air pollution emanating from the transport sector, …
It is time Africa rethinks air pollution funding.
Africa attracted about five percent of development funding and less than four percent of philanthropy funding to fight air pollution between 2015 – 2020 according …
Why are air pollution policies not translating into actions?
Dr Alice Kaudia, the former Environment Secretary at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources in Kenya says policies are not translating into action. why? …
Dirty Air: Dirty Blood!
Did you know that you breathe about 150 liters of air daily and that the air you breathe goes directly to your lungs and bloodstream? …