African Farmers Bearing the Climate Burden Alone
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African Farmers Bearing the Climate Burden Alone

Across Africa, smallholder farmers are financing their own fight against climate change, spending billions each year to keep food systems alive as global support lags. A new analysis shows they already shoulder most of the world’s adaptation costs, even as they receive less than 1% of the funding meant to help them.
Kenya Edges Closer to Getting Approval for a Nuclear Power Plant
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Kenya Edges Closer to Getting Approval for a Nuclear Power Plant

Kenya has moved closer to launching its first 1,000MW nuclear power plant after the IAEA confirmed the country’s strong safety and regulatory framework. While the milestone boosts confidence in Kenya’s nuclear ambitions, debates remain over costs, environmental risks, and whether the nation truly needs nuclear energy given its renewable strengths.
Green Groups Slam Ruto’s Move to Lift Logging Ban in Mau Forest
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Green Groups Slam Ruto’s Move to Lift Logging Ban in Mau Forest

Kenya’s leading environmental organizations, the Green Belt Movement and Greenpeace Africa, have strongly condemned the government’s decision to lift the logging ban in the Mau Forest Complex. They warn the move threatens Kenya’s water towers, undermines climate resilience, and risks erasing years of progress in forest conservation. With the Mau at the heart of the country’s water security, activists say reopening it to logging is an environmental and economic disaster in the making.