There is a version of the global waste story which is often presented in a way that portrays the Global South as the main problem to be addressed. This is highlighted by a map of the world dotted with overflowing landfills and rivers choked with plastic. Ghana has spent years Read more…
Amidst the scorching sun in Charikpong, a village in the northwestern Upper West Region, 7,500 kilometres from the capital Accra, Maani Naa leans against a mud house. His eyes still well up as he recalls the day his 25-year-old son, Kwame, died. “He said he had a headache. We delayed Read more…
As cocoa prices reach an astronomical high, farmers are more than ever destroying forests to expand production, at the decimating expense of conservation efforts. By: Olatunji Olaigbe If, like me, you try to get to the Drill Exhibition Ranch in Calabar using Google Maps, you’ll end up two streets away Read more…
Despite international commitments to slash methane, an analysis of new national climate plans (NDCs) shows that most African nations are failing to leverage effective, community-led strategies to curb waste-sector emissions, instead relying on costly, harmful disposal methods. The report, released by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), examined NDCs Read more…
African civil society and grassroots leaders have called on the African Group of Negotiators and global negotiators to demand an immediate halt to all fossil fuel projects and demand climate reparations from wealthy nations. The declaration was issued in Cotonou, Benin, following the second physical African People’s Counter-COP (APCC), where Read more…
UN Photo/Manuel Elías United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has emphasised that the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP) on Climate Change in Brazil should not conclude without a credible global response plan aimed at limiting the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Guterres made this statement during a climate Read more…
New York, Sept. 25, 2025 – Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, has warned that the world is “fighting a losing battle” against climate change while addressing global leaders at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. In his speech on Thursday, President Mahama stated that the planet is Read more…
BY: Ibrahim Khalilulahi Usman & Jennifer Ambolley This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Reporting Grant The scorching midday sun filtered through the branches of an old tree, casting shadows across a dusty compound in Sagyimase, about 90 kilometres north of Ghana’s capital, Accra. Isaac Agyare Boadi, a retired Read more…
By: TEMWA MHONE Patricia Mussa of Kambalame Village in Machinga District walks out of her smoky grass-thatched kitchen while sneezing and scratching her itchy, watery eyes. “I am forced to smoke from the open fireplace every time I am cooking meals for my family,” says the mother of five in Read more…
As the world observes the International Day of Zero Waste 2025, GAIA Africa is calling for immediate action to address the growing crisis of fashion and textile waste, which is severely impacting African communities. The fashion industry generates 92 million tonnes of textile waste annually, much of which ends up in Read more…