The profile of social activism in North Africa is changing. Young people in the region shifted away from demanding regime change after the thwarted hopes of the 2011 Arab uprisings and the 2019 Hirak movement in Algeria. Now, they tend to seek practical improvements in their social and economic conditions rather than wholesale political reform.
Browsing: Climate
This seminar explores what happens when global greening agendas encounter places across Africa and Asia shaped by conflict and struggles over land and ren become entangled with territorial control, exclusion and militarisation
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, small-scale farmers are already changing how they grow crops, manage water, raise livestock and diversify incomes in response to drought, erratic rainfall and rising temperatures. The more troubling finding from a new systematic review is that many of these adaptations can improve food security, yet the institutions needed to spread them remain…
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 decades, global efforts towards the eradication of malaria, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, have focused essentially on West and Central Africa, where the disease is most endemic.
A new study led by researchers at Yale University School of Public Health reveals that climate change is reshaping the geography of childhood malaria across sub-Saharan Africa, increasing the disease risk in cooler highland regions while reducing transmission in some of the continent’s hottest areas.
Despite recent advances in climate change attribution, many health impacts remain unmeasured1. Here we leverage over a century of clinical data2 to investigate whether human-caused climate change has increased the burden of childhood malaria across sub-Saharan Africa. We find a robust effect of temperature and extreme precipitation on prevalence, consistent with previous findings at local scales…
It’s been more than two decades since scientists first reported that a warming climate was responsible for malaria epidemics in the mountains of Kenya and Ethiopia, making it one of the first diseases linked to climate change. But after years of debate, it has remained unclear whether climate change is indeed making malaria worse.
Rising temperatures are redistributing the risk of childhood malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, resulting in areas of “new risk” in the east and south of the continent, but also “relief hotspots” in western Africa.
The mobilisation of capital for Africa’s climate challenge must necessarily be multifaceted – comprising local, global, and hybrid. In this regard, Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) – whether at national, continental, and multilateral levels – have a duty to direct funding towards ESG-compliant entities, projects, and community resilience causes, especially those built on solid sovereign frameworks.…
