Liberia: Monrovia’s Citizens Beg for Quiet as Environment Protection Authority Promises Crackdown on Noise Pollution

Mid-afternoon in Monrovia, a megaphone blasts a vendor’s message in a busy neighborhood, one of the city’s most common sources of noise pollution. Photo: Manon Verchot/New Narratives By Aria Deemie, environmental reporter with New Narratives At 3...

Liberia: Citizens in Liberia’s Capital Beg for Quiet as Environment Protection Authority Promises Crackdown on Noise Pollution

At 3 a.m. Richedna Kpanneh Tobii finally opened her books. The 21-year-old university student had learned that her densely populated neighborhood of Lakpazee, with more than 160,000 people, was only quiet enough for her to study in the middle of...

In Scotland, the unjust transition continues

IT HAS been 18 months since I wrote about the “unjust transition” in Scotland as the North Sea moves from fossil fuels to renewables. A lot has happened, especially in the political sphere, with a Tory government trounced to be replaced by a...

Securing investment inflows for Africa starts with reducing real and perceived risk

Stephen Seaka, Managing Executive: Public Sector and Growth Capital Solutions, Absa CIB Africa is home to the world’s longest river, the Nile, the deepest and second-longest river, the Congo River, and the world’s second-largest freshwater lake,...

Congo’s Planned $500 Million Off-Grid Fund to Start Disbursing

“We think there is enough interest in Congo,” said Clifford Aron, founder and chief executive officer of GreenMax, a Dublin-based sustainable development fund manager. “Congo is the second-largest market for energy access in the world after...

The Cameroon we want for the next 7 years – electoral demands in Cameroon by the Movement for Climate Justice in Cameroon.

The Congo Basin, the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest after the Amazon, is a carbon reservoir of immense global and regional importance for climate regulation. It provides food, fresh water, shelter, and medicine to millions of people,...

Rajnath Singh proposes '4C' approach for rule-breaking nations threatening peace

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday called out countries that openly violate international laws and undermine global institutions, warning that such conduct threatens world stability and the very foundations of peacekeeping. Speaking at the...

Manuel Congo illegal quarrying – Cycle of raid, rebuild, resume ended

News Joey Bartlett 26 Minutes Ago The Sunday Newsday headline on Page 1 which highlighted the illegal quarry operator who was affecting the Caroni's water supply. - FOLLOWING a Sunday Newsday Page 1 story, on June 29, on an illegal quarrying site...

The bizarre 8,850 km phenomenon in the Atlantic that keeps expanding

From high above Earth, satellites have captured a sight so extraordinary that scientists initially thought it was a camera malfunction. Across the deep blue expanse of the Atlantic Ocean stretches a colossal brown ribbon, twisting and turning for...

African country drops Prince Harry linked wildlife charity after accusing it of 'disrespect'

Chad has accused a wildlife charity linked to Prince Harry of being 'disrespectful' as it announced it was ending its relationship with the non-profit. Hassan Bakhit Djamous, the environment secretary of the African country, ended its 15-year...

Climate change centre “exaggerated own role to win donations”

The Rotterdam-based climate change research facility Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) has been accused of grossly exaggerating its role in major projects to win subsidies and donations, broadcaster NOS has claimed. The GCA told potential donors...

Chad ends deal with Prince Harry-linked wildlife charity over poaching

Chad has terminated its partnership with African Parks, a wildlife conservation nonprofit whose board includes Prince Harry, after accusing the organization of mismanagement and failing to curb poaching. Chad has abruptly ended its partnership...

Gleams and Radiances

I admit, I can be a forgetful person. Not in the sense that I lose track of my belongings or forget my house keys, but rather that I am easily distracted, jumping from issue to issue, thing to thing. It seems my often distractive dissonance...

Congo's security forces accused of abuses in crime crackdown

Since early October, Congo's presidential protection force has launched an operation against criminal gangs of machete-weilding teens known locally as 'bebe noir' or black babies. The groups have been spreading terror in the country’s major cities...

Republic of Congo: Improving the management of human and natural capital to raise living standards

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2025: The Congolese economy posted modest real GDP growth of 2.6% in 2024, marking a moderate increase in per capita income for the first time since 2016. This finding, according to the World Bank’s new...

Brazilian Ambassador calls on Ghana’s climate minister ahead of COP30

The Brazilian Ambassador to Ghana, Mariana Gonçalves Madeira, paid a courtesy call on Seidu Issifu, Ghana’s Minister of State for Climate Change and Sustainability on October 8,2025. The meeting was joined by the Deputy Head of Mission, Micheal...

Chad cuts ties with wildlife charity linked to Prince Harry over ‘disrespectful attitude’

Chad said it has withdrawn a mandate held by a non-profit conservation group associated with Prince Harry to manage its wildlife reserves, accusing the leading charity of not doing enough to stop poaching. African Parks showed “a recurring...

Chad cuts ties with Prince Harry's 'disrespectful' wildlife charity

A charity partially run by Prince Harry has had its mandate for managing wildlife reserves in Chad removed by the country's government. The non-profit organisation African Parks, of which the Duke of Sussex is a board member and former president,...

Celebrities: Death in September 2025

Dhimitër Anagnosti, 89, Albanian film director (The Return of the Dead Army, Përralle Nga e Kaluara) and politician, minister of culture (1992–1994) and MP (1991–1996). Jimmy Bone, 75, Scottish football player (Partick Thistle, St Mirren) and...

Prince Harry wildlife charity dropped by Chad after government accuses it of serious financial misconduct

The Chadian government has severed ties with African Parks, a prominent conservation charity whose board includes the Duke of Sussex, following allegations of serious financial misconduct and failure to adequately protect wildlife. Announcing the...