Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations with the Government of Kenya has secured financial resources under the Global Environment Facility to implement the restoration of arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya through a bio-enterprise development project.

According to a new study published on March 17, 2023, logging, fires and agriculture are causing mountain forests to disappear at an increasing rate. At least 78.1 million hectares, or 7.1 percent of the total of these ecosystems, disappeared between 2000 and 2018. The situation in Africa is of particular concern, given the climatic role played by its mountain forests.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) will plant 5.5 million trees over the next five years to mitigate the effects of climate change in the country. The project, presented on 14 March 2023 in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, could help more than 40 million Nigerians, whose livelihoods are threatened by climate change.

The Congolese DR Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development proceeded on March 14, 2023 in Kinshasa, to the official launch of the study on the national forestry capital. This study, which will last one year, aims to determine the ecological, economic and social potential of the forest massifs of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Une lettre de dénonciation reçue (en ampliation) par Greenpeace Afrique appelle le Gouvernement du Cameroun à ne pas délivrer l’autorisation de déversement des eaux usées au profit de l’entreprise FIPCAM du fait des risques de pollution, de destruction de l’environnement et des ressources vitales ainsi qu’une atteinte à la santé des populations.

On the occasion of World Water Day 2023, we question the Water, Climate, Development and Gender Program (WACDEP-G) in Cameroon. Implemented by the National Meteorological Directorate of the Cameroonian Ministry of Transport (MINT) and the Global Water Partnership in Cameroon (GWP-Cmr), the program promotes the inclusion of women in the management of water access projects in the context of climate change. In northern Cameroon, where the program is implemented, access to water is more difficult. Low rainfall and prolonged droughts make water resources scarce, jeopardizing rain-fed agriculture and food security. Murielle Elouga, the head of the Water, Climate, Development and Gender Program (WACDEP-G) in Cameroon, answers AFRIK 21’s questions.