African youth promote SDGs at UNGA in New York

African youth promote SDGs at UNGA in New York

Young African leaders were in New York City on Saturday to promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, promoting the SDGs at their midpoint on the way to 2030 and ahead of this week’s SDG summit, an event held along with the annual UN General Assembly. Members of the African…

Laureen Fagan

Laureen is the editor of Africa Times

Nairobi hosts Africa Climate Week with focus on solutions

Nairobi hosts Africa Climate Week with focus on solutions

Africa Climate Week begins in Nairobi on Monday, with leaders from across the continent arriving in Kenya to discuss ways to meet climate targets while expanding access to energy and ensuring that economic development remains sustainable. “It comes as temperatures in Africa are rising faster than many other parts of…

Laureen is the editor of Africa Times

Street theater promotes health education in Malawi

A theater project that takes health education to Malawi is getting some renewed attention at the SEB Centenary Conference 2023 in Scotland, where Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) participants learned about the drama-based techniques used to communicate the risks of African sleeping sickness in Rumphi and Nkhotakota. The sleeping sickness,…

Laureen Fagan

Laureen is the editor of Africa Times

UNGA and African youth: ‘Climate change is real for us’

African heads of state aren’t the only ones heading to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Young climate activists from across the continent, along with their global peers, are again calling for action on climate change through various events aligned with UNGA. The Youth4Climate initiative, along with other…

Kéré’s prize-winning architecture seen across Africa

Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, a native of Burkina Faso, was awarded this years top prize in architecture for his climate-focused work, much of it in West Africa and in Kenya, Sudan and other parts of the continent. Kéré was named this year’s recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize for pioneering…

COP26 ends with SA, other coal nations pressing for more time

There’s disappointment and anger over the now-concluded COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow, with firm commitments on coal phaseouts removed from final-draft language at the objection of developing nations. South Africa, China, India and others made a successful case for a softer commitment and longer timeline on coal. Those changes come…

African designers invited to show off sustainable fashion

There’s not a lot of fashion news covered here at AT, but there’s a good reason when the African Development Bank (AfDB) and its partners announce a Fashionomics Africa contest to advance the circular economy. The inaugural online contest invites African fashion designers and brands to submit their “best sustainable…

UAE postpones its Zayed Sustainability Prize for another year

The 2021 Zayed Sustainability Prize scheduled for January in the United Arab Emirates has been postponed, with any submitted entries now moved into 2022. Officials in the UAE said the ceremony, celebrated during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), was too much of a risk with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The…

UAE extends deadline for Zayed Sustainability Prize applications

The deadline has been extended for applications for the prestigious Zayed Sustainability Prize, an initiative of the Unite Arab Emirates that engages Africans and their global counterparts in delivering solutions for a sustainable future. The prize coordinators say that because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, they’ll now accept entries through…

Ugandan ’Queen of Katwe’ actor dies of brain tumor

A Ugandan teen made famous by the Disney movie “Queen of Katwe” has died, according to the school she attended in Gayaza, a community just a few miles north of Kampala. “Fare thee well Nikita Pearl Waligwa,” the school said in messages that followed news accounts of the 15-year-old actor’s…