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INVESTIGATION: How industrial effluents threaten public health, food security and environment across Nigerian communities
Decades-long discharge of harmful industrial effluents by leather industries in Kano, the industrial hub of northern Nigeria, has denied multitudes of artisanal fishermen their only source of livelihood as well as posing great dangers to public health, food security and environment By Adam Alqali When forty-year-old Habibu Abdullahi withdrew his…
Read More »Africa and the Global Security Architecture
In his remarks at the Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on 16-17 April 2016, Kofi Annan, Chair of the Africa Progress Panel, warned that rising inequality and non-inclusive growth have implications on Africa’s security. The Tana Forum is chaired by Panel Member Olusegun Obasanjo.
Read More »From Africa’s Palms
People & Power investigates the environmental consequences of palm oil plantations in equatorial Africa.
Read More »What is development journalism?
As issues facing the developing world grow ever more complex and difficult, the task of good journalism should be to throw light on them
Read More »Pizza, free wi-fi and peace in DR Congo
Region’s first brick-oven pizza parlour hopes to inspire entrepreneurs and move the DRC beyond cycles of violence.
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