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…
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…
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…
“I don’t just report stories—I walk with them, live among them, and carry their voices to places they may never reach.” – Mahmud Mohammed-Nurudeen (Engr Winna’amzua) In a world where journalism increasingly favours clicks over communities, Mahmud Mohammed-Nurudeen—better known as Engr Winna’amzua—has chosen a different path. It is not paved with studio 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…
By: Franklin N. Kwenah GANTA, (Eco Media Africa) — The Liberia Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the Environmental Governance Project, has trained over 200 environmental and mining inspectors from Liberia’s fifteen counties. The training, held under the theme “Participatory Environmental Monitoring, Read more…
This poem is titled Code 1.5, and it is a wake-up call to address the urgent threat of climate change. This poem seeks to educate and inspire individuals to take action, to work together to protect the planet and limit global warming to below 1.5°C. Poem Title: Code 1.5 Read more…
The Africa Energy Bank (AEB) is set to commence operations later this year after the African Petroleum Producers’ Organization (APPO), an African intergovernmental organization, selected Nigeria to host the headquarters of the newly established bank. The hydrocarbons-focused bank, a partnership between the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and APPO, aims to Read more…