Category: Environment

Climate Change: Youths protest in solidarity with the suffering pastoralists and farmers

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By Diane NKUSI NIKUZE   Climate activists in Kenya and around Africa take to the streets today demanding action against loss and damage due to climate change impacts. Coalesced under the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), climate activists, mostly driven by thousands of youths have chosen to make a statement by holding street matches demanding that states compensate for losses pastoralists and smallholder farmers in the country suffer due to the ongoing drought which has been described by locals as the “worst in 40 years”. “It unimaginable that communities…

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Kilifi CSOs urge Government to Conserve the Mangrove Forests along the Coastline  

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By Diane NKUSI NIKUZE   The conservation of the Mangrove forests could influence the magnitude and duration of Kenya’s benefit from her planned blue economy, the Kenya Platform on Climate Governance (KPCG) has said. In a statement released on the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, Anne Tek, the National Coordinator for the KPCG said conserving the mangroves will improve the coastal environment and boost the contribution of the blue economy to the national GDP. “Mangroves provide breeding grounds for the fish, which contributes to the national…

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PACJA sponsored 2022 African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting Awards

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By NIKUZE NKUSI Diane   The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance has today launched the seventh African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting (ACCER) Awards whose theme is to drive and shape the African narratives that ultimately influence the 27 th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change set to be held in Egypt in November 2022. First launched in 2013, the ACCER Awards has continued to gain interests among a growing number of participating journalists but also organisations that have continued to sign up for partnering…

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Historically meaningfull of nyabarongo River in the region

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By NIKUZE NKUSI Diane The fact that Nyabarongo is the real source of the Nile is now undisputable, after the overdue research that was carried out in 2006 and its subsequent findings. But even without the research, many Ugandans who live on the shores of Lake Victoria and the river’s biggest beneficiaries, had reckoned with this truth in 1994 when they started seeing headless and mutilated bodies that were floating deep inside Uganda during the horrendous genocide. The same bodies went as far as the port of Kisumu, a fact…

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