Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
Environment
RSS FeedSudanese: Climate scientist receives prestigious award
2008-05-02
A Sudanese climate researcher has been honoured by the UN Environment Programme in recognition of her work on climate change and adaptation in conflict-stricken Darfur. Balgis Osman-Elasha, a senior researcher at Sudan's Higher Council for Environmen...
DRC: Banks meet over £40bn plan to harness power of Congo river
2008-04-24
Seven African governments and the world's largest banks and construction firms meet in London today to plan the most powerful dam ever conceived - an $80bn (£40bn) hydro power project on the Congo river which, its supporters say, could double the amo...
Global: Biofuels: The inadequacy of certifying fuels and feeds - New report
2008-04-24
Attempts to use certification schemes to reduce the widespread environmental and social problems caused by growing crops for fuels and animal feeds are bound to...
DRC: Water everywhere, but is it safe to drink?
2008-04-25
April is the beginning of the rainy season for the DRC's eastern provinces, a time when perpetually more water gets dumped on an already drenched region. But despite an abundant rain supply and churning rivers, access to clean water has been a persis...
DRC: Rainforests and climate change
2008-04-25
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s vast tropical rainforest is a true natural treasure, home to over a thousand species of plants and hundreds of species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. The tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin is t...
Africa: Climate change can stoke conflicts, says scientist
2008-04-25
Climate change in Africa could leave 250-million more people short of water by 2020, spurring conflicts and threatening stability on the world's poorest continent, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner said on Tuesday. Rajendra K Pachauri, chairperson of...
Somalia: Villages abandoned as drought bakes Puntland
2008-04-18
Squatting in the scorching sun, Adan Hassan Mahamud pointed to the parched landscape around Hamure village, 280km east of Bosasso in the self-declared autonomous Somali republic of Puntland. "I have seen droughts but nothing like this in 12 years," M...
Tanzania: Environment key to poverty reduction
2008-04-10
Three years after adopting the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) approach, Tanzania will be taking another step, embarking on the second phase with a nationwide framework putting poverty reduction high on the country’s development agenda. The National...
Global: Civil society groups oppose World Bank's proposed climate funds
2008-04-11
While welcoming increased international attention to the climate crisis, civil society groups from the global South and global North today are calling on the World Bank to withdraw its proposal to establish climate investment funds. The World Bank on...
Africa: Climate change linked to spread of disease
2008-04-11
Climate change is emerging as a major threat to health and adding pressure on public health systems, especially in Africa, a senior UN official has said. "It causes a rise in sea levels, accelerates erosion of coastal zones, increases the intensity a...
Nigeria: Dead baby trees by the millions as reforestation fails
2008-04-11
Of the 50 million seedlings planted every year in the 11 northern Nigeria states worst effected by desertification, 37.5 million wither and die within two months, environmental officials say. “The 12.5 million seedlings that make it to maturity are n...
Global: World Bank climate profiteering
2008-04-04
The World Bank’s long-running identity crisis is proving hard to shake. When efforts to rebrand itself as a “knowledge bank” didn’t work, it devised a new identity as a “Green Bank.” Really? Yes, it’s true. Sure, the Bank continues to finance fossil ...
East Africa: Dam to face delays; vulnerability to drought raises questions
2008-04-04
The World Bank is considering financing a hydroelectric dam between Burundi and Tanzania that would boost mining production in East Africa. But in an area prone to drought, particularly with the onset of climate change, questions remain about the pro...
South Africa: Government wants clarity, new cash in climate funds
2008-03-21
South Africa has called on rich nations to spell out whether cash for a climate change technology fund was new money, and said it was unhelpful of them to label big developing countries "major emitters". Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk, ...
Africa: Africa shouldn’t wait for a climatic Armageddon
2008-03-21
Africa is vulnerable to present, foreseen and unforeseen, natural and man-made calamities. Of great concern currently is the impact that climatic change due to global warming will have on the richly endowed continent, which, ironically, is the poores...
Kenya: Hundreds ill after 'toxic leak'
2008-03-14
Hundreds of Kenyans have fallen ill after a chemical consignment was dumped on the roadside near the port city of Mombasa, officials said on Thursday. According to a local official, up to 1 500 people have sought treatment at local hospitals, complai...
Uganda: Debate rages over the benefits of tree-planting schemes
2008-03-12
Early one morning in 1993, Wilson Turinawe woke up to the crack of gunfire in Uganda’s Kibale National Park. Paramilitary park rangers were attacking his village. His thatched hut was set on fire. His wife grabbed their infant child and ran. Turinawe...
South Africa: Building a peoples' response to Eskom's plans - New Roport by GroundWork
2008-03-13
GroundWork has released its 6th GroundWork Report, Peak Poison: The Elite Energy Crisis and Environmental Justice. The groundWork Report explores the social and environmental justice impacts of energy crises. It also asks questions about the politics...
Global: Minority and indigenous groups silent victims of climate change - report
2008-03-14
Minority and indigenous groups across the world are among the hardest hit by climate change and often disproportionately affected by climate-related disasters but their plight has yet to be recognised by the international community, a new report says...
Southern Africa: Deadly cyclone batters Mozambique
2008-03-14
A powerful cyclone has hit parts of Mozambique, killing at least seven people and forcing thousands families from their homes. The state-controlled national broadcaster said on Monday that four districts in the northern Nampula province were being ba...
Global: EU exporting climate pollution to emerging economies
2008-02-29
WWF recently released a report on "EU Consumption, Global Pollution". The report shows that the global CO2 emissions from EU consumption are 500 megatonnes (12%) higher than EU production. The countries most impacted by the EU's carbon imbalance are ...
South Africa: Paying the price for mining
2008-02-22
One legacy of South Africa's extensive mineral deposits is the infrastructure and wealth of the country. But another more troubling legacy is emerging as an increasingly urgent problem: environmental contamination from over 100 years of mining that c...
Swaziland: The myth of sustainable plantations
2008-02-22
Swaziland’s timber plantations have been held up as a model of sustainable forestry management, where other plantations around the world are considered to have had negative environmental and social impacts. However, the authors of this report argue t...
Africa: Climate change 'poses drought risk for Africa'
2008-02-22
Climate change could pose a new threat to food-insecure Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the USAID Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET). Christopher Funk, a geographer-climatologist from the University of California Santa Barbara and member...
Madagascar: Cyclone kills 22
2008-02-22
At least 22 people have been confirmed dead a week after cyclone Ivan struck Madagascar. It has also left thousands of people homeless and displaced in the north-west town of Anosimahavelona. The announcement of further three of heavy rains by weathe...
Southern Africa: SADC region on high alert as more flooding is forecast
2008-02-15
Southern Africa has been warned to brace for more and heavier rains as the peak of the rainfall season approaches. The rainfall season in most of southern Africa stretches from October to March with a peak in late February. A forecast for the period ...
Global: GM crops increase pesticide use says report
2008-02-15
A new report released on February 13th shows that planting genetically modified (GM) crops is causing an increased use of harmful pesticides in major biotech crop producing countries. The 2008 edition of the Friends of the Earth International “Who Be...
Swaziland: the myth of sustainable plantations
2008-02-15
Swaziland’s timber plantations have been held up as a model of sustainable forestry management, where other plantations around the world are considered to have had negative environmental and social impacts. However, the authors of this report argue t...
Nigeria: Poor oil spill clean-up methods affect Niger Delta communities
2008-02-08
A few days after villagers in Kedere in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region noticed oil seeping from the pipe that runs beside the village, a few boys from the village went out with shovels, dug pits a few feet deep, scooped the oil into the ground...
DRC: World Bank committed to in improving management of forests
2008-02-05
The World Bank independent Inspection Panel said that it appreciates the World Bank Group’s efforts to tackle difficult and risky problems under trying circumstances in the forest sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). While pointing to a ...
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