Serbian FM Nicola Selakovic with moroccan FM nasser_bourita

COP21 Summit: More than a dozen African countries pledge to restore forests

African Restoration Initiative, a coalition of African countries and donors unveiled on Sunday, an ambitious initiative on the side-lines of a crunch UN climate conference, to restore 100 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2030. The ambitious project for which nine financial partners and 10 technical-support partners have already pledged support, aims to […]

Sub-Saharan Africa emerging as hotbed of illicit wildlife trade — UNODC report

Africa accounts for a staggering 19% of all seizures of illegal wildlife materials worldwide, with virtually all of the seizures having been made in the sub-Saharan subregion, according to the latest World Wildlife Crime Report 2024. In terms of global trade flows, a majority of seizures — 44% of all records — between 2015–2021 was […]

Kenya on three-day mourning after chief of staff death in helicopter crush

Kenya has declared a three-day mourning following a helicopter crush that killed chief of staff Francis Ogolla and nine other people on board. Only two people survived the crash which occurred soon after take-off west of the country, President William Ruto said. Ogolla departed Nairobi on Thursday to visit troops in the North Rift region […]