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Tourists in a boat encounter an elephant at the Chobe river between Botswana and Namibia. Photo: iStock
South Africa’s Constitutional Court on Friday blocked offshore exploration led by Shell along the country’s pristine Wild Coast, a setback for the oil major after years of legal challenges by local communities and environmentalists.
New Delhi, August 16, 2026: India is set to host key BRICS environmental meetings at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on August 17 and 18, bringing together representatives of BRICS member countries to discuss shared environmental priorities and strengthen cooperation for a more resilient and sustainable future.
Shell Plc lost the latest round of a five-year legal fight with environmental activists over a South African oil-exploration campaign that went all the way to the nation’s top court.
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.
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…
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…
