After a five-year long legal battle, the Constitutional Court of South Africa has blocked Shell and local partner Impact Africa’s permit to explore for oil and gas off the country’s East Coast, in a landmark victory for local communities and civil society.
Author: Markel Zilla
For decades, South Africa was the great success story of African industrialization. Last year, Morocco took the lead, emerging as the African Development Bank’s top-ranked industrial economy in Africa. In the Bank’s analysis, published in the latest edition of its industrialization index, Morocco’s growth has been “driven by sustained industrial upgrading, export diversification, and strong…
PARIS, France — August 12, 2026: Sylyac Marie Mvogo, the Prefect of Wouri — Cameroon’s most economically significant administrative district, encompassing the commercial capital Douala- was reportedly detained Tuesday morning by French customs officials at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle International Airport, allegedly found in possession of approximately €130,000 in undeclared cash hidden in his personal luggage, multiple Cameroonian media outlets reported. According to reports first circulated by Cameroonian journalist Paul Chouta, French customs authorities intercepted the senior government official at the Paris airport, placing him under questioning for alleged currency trafficking and violations of French financial legislation. The sum — equivalent…
As the global climate crisis accelerates faster than collective response and new conflicts slice attention, African church leaders are highlighting the need to increase action, as the emergency hurts their congregations.
For more than a century, the world’s mission was simple: save the lion. Today, India faces a problem few countries ever imagined having. Its lions are no longer disappearing. They are expanding. Their range is growing. Their numbers are rising. And increasingly, so are their encounters with people.
Agriculture is the main source of income for communities in rural Mpumalanga, in the north-east of South Africa. Goats and cattle graze freely across open, communal grasslands. But plastic bags, food wrappers, bottles and other plastic materials have become part of this environment. When the dry season arrives and fresh grass becomes scarce, hungry cattle…
Africa’s largest economies are ramping up efforts to develop their domestic solar manufacturing capacity
In 2012, South Africa began airlifting black rhinos upside down from remote terrain to expand their range; the conservation program has since helped establish 17 new populations | World News – The Times of India Welcome! to timesofindia.com TOI INDTOI USTOI GCC TOI+
When an elephant wandered out of South Africa’s Kruger National Park into the nearby village of Matsulu on 10 February 2024, hundreds of people gathered around and chased it.
CHIFENG, China, Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Envision Energy, a global leader in green technology, today announced a collaboration with Sasol, a global energy and chemicals company, to advance the design study of a potential green hydrogen system at Sasol’s Sasolburg operations in South Africa. The collaboration marks an important step in exploring how future…
