As the 17th session of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification enters its final week in Ulaanbaatar, ministers and global leaders will focus on finance, water, land, and food systems. The second and decisive week of the 17th session of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, UNCCD COP17, began on Monday, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia,…
Footage circulating on social media shows dozens of migrants arriving by boat on Spain’s southeastern coast at Cala Del Barco beach. Spanish authorities reported that the Civil Guard was able to locate 62 individuals who were on the boat. Published On 21 Aug 202621 Aug 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share…
What if the infrastructure needed to fight climate change could also help repair the land beneath it? At a UN desertification conference this week in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, experts at a side-event examined how renewable energy expansion can co-exist with land protection and restoration, spotlighting examples from around the world. To name a few, degraded mining…
Desertification is not the spread of deserts. It is the slow degradation of fertile land – a process that now affects 40 percent of the Earth’s land surface and leaves around 100 million hectares of healthy land unproductive every year. As governments gather in Mongolia this week for the UN’s Cop17 desertification summit, scientists say…
American-born entrepreneur Daniel Yu’s most recent venture is the Africa Jobs Fund, which seeks to invest in companies that can create jobs at scale for Africans and raise incomes. It focuses on two areas: international labour mobility and export manufacturing. He previously founded Wasoko, a multimillion-dollar company that connects informal retailers in East Africa with…
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attends a state banquet for President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images SpaceX, which confidentially filed for an IPO in April, is planning to disclose its prospectus as…
Penalties for breaching proposed crypto regulations include jail terms of five years. (Image made via GenAI) If National Treasury gets its way, South Africans who do not comply with proposed regulations dealing with crypto-currency could face jail terms of up to five years, a R1 million fine, or both. In addition, if people are found…
Environmental activists in South Africa have been waging legal battles against the state and mining companies for years. This is often on the grounds that communities haven’t been consulted before mines were given permission to start digging and blasting on their land. Environmental justice researcher Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba has tracked the legal cases against mines…
The government has leased a large piece of land in Tororo District that previously housed offices of the National Livestock Resources Research Institute to the newly established Africa Tech University, a private institution expected to transform the area into a major centre for higher learning. The more than 700-hectare property is currently undergoing renovation as…
Despite global progress in strengthening land tenure and governance, more than a billion people worldwide – nearly one in four adults – fear they could lose the rights to some or all of their land and housing within the next five years. The finding comes in a UN-backed report that underscores the need for stronger…
