Environment
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Flanders grants additional €1m to finance climate change projects in Africa
London, Dec. 4, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The Government of Flanders has committed additional 1 million euros to the Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) to support five projects in ... -
Egyptian man builds eco-friendly home using only recycled material
London, Dec. 2, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Taymour El-Hadidi grew increasingly wary of Cairo’s clustered buildings and its alternatives in gated communities around the capital, so he ... -
Zimbabweans return to charcoal for cooking as power outages bite
London, Nov. 27, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Miller Chizema walked through the forest near his home and came across a pile of freshly-cut logs – a sight ... -
Egyptian youth foundation begins clean-up of River Nile, removes 1.5 tons of plastic waste
London, Nov. 26, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Members of the Youth Love Egypt Foundation (YLE), have begun a major campaign to clean-up the Nile River, and remove ... -
Butterfly: The unusual source of foreign exchange for Kenyan women
London, Nov. 23, 2019 (AltAfrica)– To ordinary African, Butterfly is simply an insect but viewed by majority coastal communities in Kenya as witchcraft has ... -
UNIDO, partners distribute 500,000 clean energy stoves to women in Tanzania
London, Nov. 13, 2019 (AltAfrica)-As part of progammes to meat the global goal of universal access to clean cooking energy by 2030, the United ... -
Nigeria: Ekiti begins house-to-house waste collection
London, Nov. 8, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has inaugurated four waste compactor trucks worth, several millions of naira, for use in the ... -
Kenya to accelerate access to clean energy after dirty stoves, fuels kill 21,500 in a year
London, Nov. 7, 2019 (AltAfrica)- More than 21,500 Kenyans die each year from cooking with traditional fuels like charcoal and firewood, new government data ... -
Charity rewards plastic waste collectors with €152,000 in Mali
London, Oct. 28, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Kamatari, a newly created charitable foundation in Mali, plans to organise a plastic waste collection competition between the ten communes ... -
Wind energy as a massive game-changer for African energy sector, economy
London, Oct. 18, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Besides generating much-needed clean and affordable electricity, wind energy has the power to unlock economic growth in Africa, give a ...
