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A recent visit to the village gave me hope, for once, that there may be better harvest this year.
Land related stories hit headlines when disputes get deadly. And they are many. Even blood brothers kill for it. The recent killing of a family of nine in Siaya was due to a land dispute.
The chorus is familiar: Africa suffers some of the worst climate disasters despite being the least contributor to the cause, an unsustainable rate at which the globe is warming.
Africa must exert pressure to ensure G20 countries commit to substantially cutting GHG emissions and adequately mobilise climate funds for the sake of developing countries.
Wealthy nations pledged to mobilise at least $789 million. However, only $348 million has so far been raised and disbursed.
I recently attended a two-day African religious leaders’ training that touched on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) risks and opportunities in pastoral work.
Something good happened in The Hague this week. It came with a momentum worth keeping in the fight for climate justice locally and beyond.
In a continent bedeviled with conflict in smaller, but key areas, with a humanitarian crisis we have chosen to ignore, hunger and disease and migration, remain Africa’s daily worries.
Faith leaders must speak to power locally and globally, holding them accountable for fair resource governance, equitable borrowing, and just taxation.
Proper and integrated planning, as well as deeper community participation, have led to implementation of more than 150 climate adaptation projects.
A few days ago, as I approached our bin area to throw waste, I noticed a man had been allowed in by a sympathetic guard, and he was picking plastics.
A few months ago, as I headed West, I detoured to buy tree seedlings from a nameless ranch somewhere in Narok, Kenya, to gift my hosts
Africa grapples with climate change, food security, disease, war and water stress, among others, not by choice, but circumstance.
If children could be given room to play in the rain, they always would, because it is fun.
In their silence, fallen trees gain their respect for the storms they helped weather. Meanwhile, they inspire the start of a new life, or a renewal.
Africa deserves better funding than what it is getting. The continent needs more money for clean energy adaptation, not for more fossil fuel projects.
An ugly bloody incident occurred in Belem, Brazil, this week, as protesters breached security and forced themselves into the priority Blue Zone at the COP30 venue.
The lakes are displacing thousands, and rendering property worth millions of shillings useless.
Have you ever been in a situation where a story whose details you know is being retold in your presence with a lot of inconsistencies.
The 2025 Kenya Wildlife Census Report is a significant step in sustainable conservation of our national heritage and one health.
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