Banned from the US: The voices missing at New York Climate Week

Lina Yassin is a Sudanese climate policy researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). As New York Climate Week approaches, excitement is building. It is, after all, a crucial moment to generate momentum toward...

IGAD region pays price of climate inaction

In this photo taken in 2021, an elderly Turkana woman receives food rations as part of a relief programme targeting the region owing to prolonged drought. COURTESY PHOTO/SERV INTERNATIONAL. Millions in East and Horn of Africa face hunger, thirst,...

Tourism Month 2025: A celebration of sustainable travel and inclusive growth

Tourism Month 2025: A Celebration of sustainable travel and inclusive growth September marks the start of Tourism Month 2025, South Africa’s annual celebration of travel, heritage, and homegrown exploration. As is every year, the focus of Tourism...

Morocco ranks 135th in climate change, achieves mixed results in 2024 Global Justice Index

Morocco ranked 135th in addressing climate change as part of promoting global justice in 2021, far behind countries such as Gabon, which came 8th globally, Guinea-Bissau in 24th place, and Zambia in 25th place, according to the 2024 Global Justice...

Eritrea: Meeting To Boost Agricultural Production In Gash Barka Region

(MENAFN- APO Group) Ambassador Mahmud Ali Hirui, Governor of Gash Barka Region, conducted meetings from 21 to 26 August in the sub-zones of Barentu, Teseney, Tokombia, Akordet, and Shambuko on the role of agricultural experts in expanding...

Act Party climate policy would ‘punish farmers’, Prime Minister says

The Act Party has called for New Zealand to weaken its emissions reduction goals in the Paris Climate Accord, or withdraw from the pact completely. Leader David Seymour unveiled a climate policy on Tuesday that would effectively abandon efforts to...

Act Party climate policy would ‘punish farmers’, Prime Minister says

The Act Party has called for New Zealand to weaken its emissions reduction goals in the Paris Climate Accord, or withdraw from the pact completely. Leader David Seymour unveiled a climate policy on Tuesday that would effectively abandon efforts to...

Ethiopia Could Still Avert the Next War With Eritrea

In a dramatic reversal after more than two years of evading the issue, Ethiopia accused Eritrea at the U.N. Human Rights Council in July of occupation and abuses in its northern Tigray region. Eritrean troops had fought alongside Ethiopia’s army...

Abiy opens Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam amid escalating tensions in Horn of Africa

On September 11, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially opened the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a $5 billion megaproject that has been under construction since 2011. Operations started in February 2002, with the reservoir...

Marathon settled by historic photo finish at World Athletics Championships

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This Hospital Offers Life-Saving Heart Surgery Completely Free

The Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, located on the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan, is a unique hospital that provides free, highly specialized heart surgery primarily to patients suffering from rheumatic heart disease and other serious cardiac...

Scale up climate early warning to save lives and livelihoods, say scientists

Environment, Climate Change and Forestry Deborah Barasa during the opening of 71st Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum. As the impacts of climate change become more intense, scientists have called for the scaling up of early warning...

Act now to stop a flood of climate refugees

The Earth is heating up and wildlife is on the move to higher, cooler ground. Deer, rabbits and beavers are moving into the Arctic. Butterflies once common in Mexico are now more likely to be spotted in Canada. And human beings are shifting, too....

Eurofins Champions Sustainability at Intex Forum Sri Lanka 2025 Setting New Benchmarks in Industry Innovation

Eurofins made a commanding impact at Intex Forum Sri Lanka 2025 (August 6–8), serving as the event’s exclusive Sustainability Partner. Over three days, the forum welcomed nearly 300 senior professionals from across South Asia, providing Eurofins a...

Africa steps forward to combat climate change

Climate change poses enormous challenges to the survival of human beings and economic development. The issue has become an important talking point of governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), researchers and academics for about half a...

Strategic Reversals: Abiy’s Miscalculation and the Tigray–Eritrea Realignment

Bound by necessity rather than trust, these former foes now walk a delicate line—one that could check Abiy Ahmed’s aggression or plunge the Horn into another devastating war. In the volatile arena of Horn of Africa geopolitics, Tigray has...

Reframing Eritrea’s Post-Independence Paradox

For more than three decades, the story of Eritrea has been told in a narrow and predictable register. It begins with the extraordinary military triumph of 1991, moves quickly to the UN-supervised referendum of 1993, pauses briefly on the promise...

Morning Roundup: Back to school, far-right AfD triples votes in North-Rhine Westphalia, and Ryanair cuts flights to Spain

The Today Radio news team brings you the latest headlines for Monday, 15 September. Luxembourg BACK TO SCHOOL – It's back to school for 63,000 of Luxembourg's students today and the police have launched their annual safety campaign aimed at...

Alphonce Simbu Wins the Worlds Marathon

In the closest marathon finish in world championship history, Alphonce Simbu of Tanzania just squeezed past Amanal Petros of Germany at the line to win the 2025 title in 2:09:48. Petros, who looked to have a slight edge with 50 meters to go, was...

Tigray’s Freedom Cannot Be Conditional on Democracy

Independence must come first Independence is a right, not something to be earned as a reward. Grounded in international law and the universal drive for self-determination, independence means a people exercising full self-rule, free from external...