South Africa’s Constitutional Court has blocked Shell’s plans to conduct offshore oil exploration along the country’s ecologically sensitive Wild Coast, delivering a major setback to the oil giant after years of legal challenges by local communities and environmental groups.
Africa risks replacing its historical dependence on raw-material exports with a new form of digital dependence unless it deliberately invests in knowledge creation, research, innovation and industrial capacity, Prof. Sergey D. Bodrunov has warned.
Every morning, millions of garments are pulled from racks across Europe and the United States - purchased with excitement, worn a handful of times (if at all), and then discarded in favour of the next trend. But where do those discarded clothes go after being cast aside? Many second-hand clothes travel halfway across the world to Africa. Here, they meet a cruel fate, overwhelming the local markets, poisoning the environment, and exacerbating the global textile waste crisis. This global trade is marketed as charity, but the reality is much darker: it perpetuates a vicious cycle of waste colonialism with severe environmental and social consequences.
As global energy markets are rocked by conflict and geopolitical instability, a new report by Oil Change International and Power Shift Africa finds that oil and gas production has failed to deliver economic development in Africa’s producing countries and is instead deepening vulnerability, inequality, and dependence.
As a young man, Olekesi Koisa would always see his father study the stars, birds, and animals both domestic and wild; and would send a word to their village and beyond that there would be rain or drought, and that people should prepare for an impending disaster in the case that it was extreme.