Photo shows different vapes/Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi for The Colonist Report/2024.

Vapes: Lack of laws puts African kids, the environment at risks

With no proper disposal plans in place in Nigeria and Burkina Faso, disposable vapes are recklessly dumped in public places alongside other waste products, sometimes ending up in rivers. Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi, Elza Sandrine Sawadogo, Kevin Woke May 28, 2024.  6:00a.m. Photo shows different vapes/Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi for The Colonist Report/2024. Vapes, popular in the UK and…

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Photo shows residents washing clothes in community river/Photo credit:RAID and Afrewatch

Report links cobalt mining in the DRC to women’s reproductive health issues, children’s illnesses

April 8, 2024.   6:14am The rates of skin pathologies and genital infections among female and paediatric patients have skyrocketed, the investigation found… Photo shows residents washing clothes in community river/Photo credit:RAID Children who live in close proximity to cobalt mining communities in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are being negatively impacted by the…

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Photo shows uncovered mine, filled with water in Kabwe in October 2023/The Colonist Report.

Life After Lead Poisoning: “What happened to the World Bank’s $65 million support for lead victims in Zambia?”

April 3, 2024.  8:49am Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi, Cindy Sipula, and Martin Vrba’s six-month investigation discovered that the failure to completely “cover the mine” continues to affect generations born before its existence. Photo shows the uncovered mine in Kabwe in October 2023/The Colonist Report. Several news outlets reported on lead poisoning among Kabwe residents four decades ago, alleging…

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Photo shows Josephine Tonon Demonstrating how portable solar lamp work at her shop in Morop village on Wesley Langat on February 16, 2024 for The Colonist Report Africa.

Lack of electricity supply for decades lures Kenyan small business owners to embrace solar systems

For more than two decades, Morop village has never had any power supply, despite having overhead power lines running on roads By Wesley Langat March 26, 2024.      14:09 Electricity transmission lines running close to Eunice’s house at Moop village/Wesley Langat on February 16, 2024 for The Colonist Report Africa. It is a hot…

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“Some operators were crushed to death while falling rosewood:” A beehive of illegal logging in Nigeria despite the ban

The Colonist Report Africa discovered that, despite the state governor’s ban on African rosewood, massive logging continues in North East Nigeria March 15, 2024.    6:31am Photo shows abandoned rosewood trees at Zaura Uku/Idris Ibrahim for The Colonist Report Africa/2023 The Colonist Report Africa investigation has shown that there is a growing amount of illegal…

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Photo shows wood used as fuel in Amafor village in Ohaji/Egbema community in Imo State, eastern Nigeria on November 29, 2023/Nwaobasi Chidinma Rosemary for The Colonist Report Africa

Increase in petroleum products puts Nigerian trees at risk

Some locals claimed to have given up using petroleum products in favour of burning firewood or tyres as fuel By  Nwaobasi Chidinma Rosemary March 6, 2024.   10:30 am Photo shows multiple wood in uncompleted buildings used as fuel in Amafor village in Ohaji/Egbema community in Imo State, eastern Nigeria on November 29, 2023/Nwaobasi Chidinma Rosemary…

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South Africa: Mpumalanga gas project aims to bridge JET gap

Development of R155-million LNG pilot in Amersfoort promoted as a way to alleviate energy shortages while South Africa transitions to renewable energy. Thabo Molelekwa investigates February 28, 2024.    11;20 a.m. A core hole drilling site at dawn. Kinetiko describes the Amersfoort project as South Africa’s largest onshore LNG project. Photo supplied The development of natural gas…

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Burkina Faso’s botched policy increases plastic waste, kills livestock, forces importers to use sunlight to detect biodegradable plastic.

Despite the ban on non-biodegradable plastic importation and manufacture, the government has granted 918 import exemption certificates since 2015 By Issouf Tapsoba February 22, 2024.   9:00am Photo shows a reserved area transformed into a garbage dump. It illustrates the magnitude of the production of plastic waste from the population/Issouf Tapsoba, on January 20, 2024, for…

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