The Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is being held from October 21st to November 1st in Colombia. This initiative...
In Congo-Brazzaville, tree planting projects intended for carbon markets have proliferated over the past four years. This concerns large-scale developments of monocultures initiated by oil companies...
By Witness Radio and Südnordfunk teams. Close to 100 activists have been criminalized this year for speaking out about the harm caused by the East African...
By Witness Radio and WoMin teams. Hundreds of African women activists and climate leaders who attended the week-long Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA), held alongside the African...
By Witness Radio team. Africa’s path to recovery from the scars of destructive development projects will take decades. These projects, often presented as “development initiatives,” have...
The UN’s new carbon market will have a compulsory mechanism that aims to prevent developers of carbon credit projects from breaching human rights or causing environmental...
By Witness Radio team. As the world burns and corporations continue to pillage Africa’s natural resources, hundreds of women from different local communities of West and...
By Witness Radio team. More than 30 families in Kasinyi village, Nile parish, and Ngwendo sub-county in Buliisa district are facing displacement by floods caused by...
Along Bwera-Mpondwe road, in Kasese district, farmers till the land, with every hoe raising more dust than dirt, a testament of how hard the sun has...
By Witness Radio team. In a glaring display of injustice, the Masaka High Court ruled against 80 Project-Affected Persons (PAPs) from the Lwengo, Kyotera, and Rakai...