AFRICA

Burkina Faso arrests humanitarian workers of a Netherlands-based NGO

Burkina Faso's junta has announced the arrest of eight humanitarian workers from the Netherlands-based International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO), an organisation focused on ensuring...

New Greek penalties for rejected asylum seekers

Spurred on by a surge in asylum seekers this year, Greece's parliament has stiffened penalties for unqualified migrant arrivals while speeding up the turn-around...

Ghana innovates in forest governance: Verified and legal timber exports to the EU

On 18 August, Ghana officially launched the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) license, becoming the first African nation and the second globally,...

Lucy’s 3-million-year-old skeleton exhibition in Prague!

On 15 August, a plane arrived in Prague carrying fossils of human ancestors over three million years old. This remarkable collection includes the fossils...

Cameroon ready for new EU regulation on cocoa sustainable production

Cameroon is ready for the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and declared that 99% of its cocoa production can be traced from its farm...

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