Africa

Environmentalists arrested at community meeting on gas flaring

Overfishing along West Africa’s coast is endangering fish stocks and livelihoods, but local fishermen are not to blame.

Wangari Maathai’s Nobel prize-winning activism has thrust the environment to the forefront of the global security agenda

They build masterfully constructed homes, have a brilliantly regulated social order, are essential to sustaining the environment and are playing a vital role in sustainable development projects.

You can ‘structurally adjust’ an economy in a matter of years, but it takes longer to destroy a culture. Heiner Thiessen reports from Senegal on the impact of imposing a Western cash economy on a traditional African barter society