Mogadishu/Nairobi-The African Federation of Environmental Journalists (AFEJ) and its 42 national affiliations around Africa concerns and have stemmed the illicit detention over the humanitarian journalist Abdi-aziz Abdinur Ibrahim better known as “Koronto” who is still in jail with political motivated concentration by the Gen. Sharif Shekhuna Maye, the police commissioner and Gen. Abdullahi Hassan Barisse [...]
The African Federation of Environmental journalists (AFEJ) elated and welcome that its Zimbabwe affiliate member Zimbabwe Environmental Journalists (ZEJA) joined the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) and hopes that such this kind of membership will help improve the quality of its members. For more details go to: http://wfsj.org/news/news.php?id=296 The Zimbabwe Environmental Journalists Association (ZEJA) [...]
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The Secretary General of the African Federation of Environmental Journalists (AFEJ) calls international concern over Kenya and Somalia leaders talks now going on in Nairobi to protect the Somalia’n refugees who are currently under a climate of hopeless as the government of Kenya have ordered the Somali refugees to enter its territory and similarly the [...]
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The members of the African Federation of Environmental Journalists (AFEJ) are today overjoyed the celebration of the World Human Rights Day and vowed to observe and document the human rights violations in across African region as everyone has the right to be heard and to shape the decisions that affect their community. This right is [...]
The African Federation of Environmental Journalists (AFEJ) excited to announce the launch of the Green Africa Directory in which AFEJ is member of to integrate and share the regional informations in a professional manner. The Green Africa Directory is the first pan-African sustainability directory and network that already showcases over 900 organizations from across Africa [...]
Somalia is located in the Horn of Africa, adjacent to the Arabian Peninsula; Somalia is geographically located in a very advantageous region, bordering both Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Country’s land area is estimated to 637 660 km2. It shares borders with Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti. For close to two decades Somalia has not [...]
CIVIL society group, Social and Economic Rights Action Center (SERAC) has been raising serious concerns over the plght of over 25,000 families currently rendered homeless by operatives of the armed security forces in Port Harcourt, the capital city of Rivers State, in Southern Nigeria. The group strongly condemned the demolition of Abonnema community by soldiers [...]
The disasters in Africa are increasing in frequency and adversity of impact but a few number of these ever hit the global headlines and they silently erode the capacities of Africans to survive or prosper. The climatic and hydrological hazards, in particular droughts, floods cyclones and landslides dominate the disaster profile of the African region. [...]
In line with its commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, the Inter-governmental Authority on development (IGAD) secretariat convened IGAD women in business conference in November, 2011 in Kampala, Uganda the three days conference was attended by about delegates of six IGAD member states, namely Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda. The participants of [...]
Climate change poses major challenges to human survival in Africa and the impacts are indiscriminate and not necessarily place-based. Many African countries problems are compounded by severe environmental damage including deforestation, soil erosion and biodiversity loss. According to some field research by the members of AFEJ, African farmers have been involved conservation agriculture for a [...]
