Environment

News Digest Sudan: Floods, Oil Transit Fees, Cholera, Sudan/South Sudan Borders, Nile Dam Talks,…

Published every Monday, and updated daily through the week, our News Digest Sudan is a selected compilation of recent stories on various topics to keep an eye on, from grassroots groups, major NGOs and international media sources around the world. Available in English and/or French. If...

News Digest Tunisia: Elections présidentielles, Cinéma Tunisien, Ben Ali, Pluies diluviennes,…

Published every Monday, and updated daily through the week, our News Digest Tunisia is a selected compilation of recent stories on various topics to keep an eye on, from grassroots groups, major NGOs and international media sources around the world. Available in English and/or French. If...

News Digest Tunisia: Elections présidentielle, Ghar El Melh, Lutte contre la déforestation, Reprise du tourisme…

Published every Monday, and updated daily through the week, our News Digest Tunisia is a selected compilation of recent stories on various topics to keep an eye on, from grassroots groups, major NGOs and international media sources around the world. Available in English and/or French. If...

Forum de la Mer-Bizerte 2018 les 20 et 21 octobre 2018 à Bizerte

En septembre dernier s’est tenue la conférence de presse présentant l’événement qui se déroulera le week-end prochain à Bizerte en Tunisie. La première édition du Forum de la Mer-Bizerte 2018 – Rencontres euro-méditerranéennes de l’économie bleue durable...

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-48): Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C

Climate change and global warming are a reality, we can hardly deny it. The world is indeed getting warmer and human activity is largely responsible. It means extreme weather events could become the new normal, with an increasing number of persons displaced by natural disasters....

#RiseforClimate Global Day of Action: Thousands joined the climate movement around the world!

The MagkaSama Project has been advocating for action on environmental issues for more than a decade. In 2015, we covered the COP21 by taking action and joining demonstrations in Paris. You can read more about what we did in this news: COP21 in Paris: Get mobilized for climate! People...

News Digest (Aug. 25, 2018): Kofi Annan has died, UK deporting people, The Sudan Call coalition, Aquarius…

This is our fourth Weekly News Digest of August, it is a selected compilation of recent stories we publish each Saturday during Summertime. Today: Students and doctor died in Sudan; UK deporting people; The Sudan Call coalition of opposition parties; South Sudan’s forests; Former...

News Digest (Aug. 18, 2018): Omar al-Bashir’s nomination, Kleptocrats in DRC, Nabeel Rajab, Haitian Book Day…

This is our third Weekly News Digest of August, it is a selected compilation of recent stories we publish each Saturday during Summertime. Today: Bashir’s nomination for a third term; Doctors threaten to strike in Sudan; Rainy season in Sudan; The Sentry reports on kleptocrats in...

Kenya to audit mining licences

Africa is enormously bountiful and the commercial exploitation of its resources is more than 500 years old. Many countries of the African continent are now to taking control over their mining and logging industry to benefit, eventually, from their natural resources. China’s gaining...

RDC: Concessions reinstated and awarded to Chinese-owned logging companies

In an article (here) published last week by Global Witness about concessions reinstated and awarded to Chinese-owned logging companies, the organization quotes Irene Wabiwa Betoko, Greenpeace Africa Senior Campaign Manager. We are alarmed that the Minister of Environment has illegally...