NAIROBI, September 2026 – The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) has unveiled A Practical Guide to Reporting Just Transition, the first continental guide dedicated to helping journalists report accurately, fairly and responsibly on the just transition. The guide was launched in Nairobi during the conference on African Workers’ Contribution to Energy Sovereignty, Green Industrialisation and…
NAIROBI, 16th Sept 2026 – Climate-vulnerable countries are spending nearly 25 times more on debt repayments than on climate action, with debt servicing absorbing 65% of their combined government revenue, a new ActionAid report has revealed. According to ActionAid’s new flagship report, Debt Fuels the Climate Crisis: How the Finance Flows, released today, the Global…
NAIROBI, September 2026 -The Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) has announced the six newsrooms selected for the inaugural Africa Climate Beacon Newsrooms cohort under its Climate Solutions Journalism Accelerator program. Launched earlier this year to expand climate solutions reporting across Brazil, India and Africa, the program attracted 133 applications for the Africa cohort. The successful newsrooms,…
NAIROBI, 2 September 2026 – Breaching the 1.5°C global warming limit is now unavoidable in the coming years, but the world can still curb how high and how long temperatures exceed it and work to bring them back down, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says in a new report. In the report titled Limiting Overshoot,…
In the high-level plenaries of global climate summits, diplomatic pledges for multi-million-dollar adaptation funds are routinely made with fanfare. Panelists pronounce terms like “climate resilience,” “just transition,” and “loss and damage funding pathways.” Yet, thousands of miles away in the dusty, sun baked landscape of Homa Bay County, Kenya, the operational reality of rural healthcare…
Climate change is increasingly taking a toll on the health of Kenyans, with malaria emerging in places where it was once uncommon, floods disrupting health facilities, prolonged drought worsening malnutrition, and extreme heat exposing communities to new health risks. The growing health burden of a changing climate was highlighted during a virtual Media Science Café…
When devastating floods sweep through villages and drought leaves livestock and families hungry or dead, journalists with their cameras troop to the scenes, capturing submerged homes, interviewing displaced families, televisions screens and newspaper pages begin to fill with images of cracked earth and overflowing rivers. But as the floodwaters recede and the drought eases, so…
Photo Credit: Generated by AI for illustration purposes only. At 1:20 pm in the heart of Kisumu’s Central Business District, Onyango Otieno, 35, commonly known as Jaboda, sits uncomfortably on his boda boda (motorbike taxi) at his designated base. Caught between the scorching sun and the desperate hope of getting his next customer to feed…
ALGERIA, 31st July 2026 –The African Energy Commission of the African Union convened a validation workshop in Algiers to review its policy paper, “Accelerating Methane Action in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Methane Emissions Regulations in Africa’s Oil and Gas Sector.” The two-day workshop brought together experts and stakeholders to assess existing methane regulations across…
BAKU, Azerbaijan|June 2026 – With global temperatures near record highs and El Niño set to return, governments, businesses, and communities marked World Environment Day 2026 on Friday 5th, with urgent calls for climate action. Azerbaijan hosted the official global commemoration in Baku. Extreme heat is one of the deadliest and fastest-growing climate threats to lives,…