Environment

The project to promote integrated management and the economy for solid waste (Promoged) was officially launched on Thursday 24 June in Mbeubeuss, a giant landfill in the city of Malika, on the outskirts of Dakar. as reported from Dakar,Charlotte idracIt is an open dump at the gate to Dakar: the Mbeubeuss website, which opened in…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, civil society welcomes the government's decision not to renew the operating license of Israeli businessman Dan Gertler for two oil blocks in Ituri. The one we nicknamed Joseph Kabila's friend questions this decision and evokes force majeure to explain why certain parts of the production…

Several NGOs condemn the "illegal" granting of large primary forest concessions to a single company. Contracts signed in September last year by Claude Nyamugabo, former Minister of the Environment, but not published on the ministry's website until March. By studying these contracts, forest rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo observed several irregularities. And they ask for cancellation, It is an area as large as half of Burundi: 1,370,000 hectares of primary forest located in the north-north of the Democratic…

In Guinea, from Monday, June 14, the Ministry of the Environment, Water and Forestry banned "the cutting and transport of firewood throughout the national territory, until further notice". Issuance of hijacking permits is also prohibited. A measure that the ministry justified with "the report on excessive logging and illegal…

In Senegal, President Macky Sall is preparing a new "economic tour" in the north of the country this weekend, especially in the Saint-Louis and Matam regions. These marathon trips within the country allow, according to the head of state, "to see the state of implementation of the various projects". One of the government's major…

In Senegal, a turnaround for hundreds of tons of plastic waste. A boat from the German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd was intercepted by the customs authorities in early May and fraudulently tried to bring the cargo into the territory. as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idracThe ship responsible for returning plastic waste left the…

In South Africa, a research group is trying to make the rhino's horn radioactive with nuclear technology. This project aims to make ivory trading much more difficult. The project was initiated by the University of the Witwatersrand in collaboration with an American university, an Australian organization and the Russian Federal…

Roses, gladioli, lilies, orchids, aromas ... contemporary flowers, crops, that is the eagerness of Doris Diawarra, a younger Beninese who launched her horticulture not removed from Cotonou. His ambition: to supply flowers which might be extra accessible than the imported ones, that will be discovered cheaply within the markets and to provide his countrymen a style of actual flowers. .

In Gabon, it has been virtually a month because the environmental guards - the workers that ensures the protection of the nation's 13 nationwide parks - went on strike. They suppose their salaries are too low. They should not paid commonly and really feel that they're poorly outfitted to work. as reported from Libreville, Yves…

The South African documentary The Knowledge of the Pieuvre received the Oscar for greatest documentary, on Sunday, April 25 in Los Angeles. It tells the story of a snorkel diver and an octopus in Cape City's False Bay. The assembly between man and octopus takes place in a kelp forest. These are massive algae that may attain 60 meters in top and are house to a wealthy ecosystem. With the knowledge of…