A Sh1.7 billion initiative has been launched to restore degraded land, create jobs and boost climate resilience.

Funding is the main bottleneck to developing multi-billion dollar initiatives, even as global activists fire up opposition to ...

Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

People board the first boat leaving Bukavu heading to Goma on Lake Kivu since the eastern Congo city was taken by M23 rebels Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Top United Nations ...

Restore Local, an initiative dedicated to accelerating locally led land restoration across Africa, has officially been ...

Restore Local aims to expand community-driven solutions for land restoration, jobs, and climate resilience in Kenya, and four ...

In South Kivu, OCHA said humanitarian assessments over the last 10 days indicated that more than 10,000 displaced people returned from Idjwi island in Lake Kivu due to dire conditions. The displaced ...

The Environmental Protection Agency will move to reverse its 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare — a step that would threaten most major climate regulations ...

Focusing on three key landscapes — Kenya’s Greater Rift Valley, the Ghana Cocoa Belt, and the Lake Kivu and Rusizi River ... and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The initiative is building ...

M23 controls Goma, the capital of the mineral-rich North Kivu, and the second-largest city there Bukavu by Lake Kivu, a strategic transport and trade route.