Environment

Obsessed with violence, engulfed in chaos for years, Yemen's problems may be growing even more and even entering an environmental crisis. Yemeni lumberjack Ali al-Emadi spends hours chopping down an acacia tree with an ax as his 12-year-old nephew helps split logs. In a war-torn country, al-Emadi must turn to logging in its northern al-Mahweet region to earn a living. An economic collapse has wiped out the agricultural and construction work for which he used to travel around the country. However, as…

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Salonga National Park, the largest in the country, was withdrawn on 19 July with Unescode from the World Heritage List in Danger where it had been listed since 1984. This decision rewards efforts to preserve this park from 36,000 square kilometers, considered the largest reserve of tropical rainforest in Africa. Pastor Cosma Wilungula, Director General of the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation, is RFI's guest. .

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an inter-ministerial decree specifically allowing the capture and killing of certain protected species is controversial. The document re-emerged one year after it was signed. This text is also attacked by the National Institute for Conservation of Nature (ICCN), which considers this decree to be a setback for the country. Environmental associations and…

Sudan condemns the lack of cooperation from its Ethiopian neighbor who refuses to commit to sharing technical information on the management of its Blue Nile dam. In Sudan, those who collect their income directly from the river swing between fear and self-confidence, but above all condemn the total lack of information about the potential consequences of dam construction.…

In Gabon, the French oil company Perenco, the largest oil producer in the country, was accused and prosecuted by a prosecutor near the Court of First Instance in Port-Gentil, the country's economic capital. The oil company is sued by NGOs for environmental pollution. Perenco recognizes an unintentional oil spill, but not necessarily to the extent that NGOs have done.…

In Kenya, the well-known environmental activist Joannah Stutchbury (67) was shot dead by four weapons on Thursday night outside her home. She got out of the car to clear branches that were blocking the way to her house. The perpetrators are still unknown on this day. About 40 NGOs and environmental associations have issued a joint statement and even President Kenyatta has responded.…

Several investors have joined forces as part of a public-private partnership in the construction of a hydropower plant that will produce green energy for the capital Libreville. Projects from the Gabonese Fund for Strategic Investments and the company Meridiam, the future facility will increase electricity capacity in the Gabonese capital by 13%.…

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…