MAFETENG – In the rural district of Mafeteng, Lesotho, lies a small village called Motsekuoa in which the Convent of the Handmaids of Christ the Priest is located. This convent is home to 58-year-old Sister Julia ‘Masina Mafike, H.C.P, a nun who is making strides in conserving biodiversity through beekeeping. The United Nations Environment Programme …
Kerawa It is one of those hot mornings in the Kerawa Refugee Camp in Cameroon’s arid Far North region. So hot that by 8 AM, temperatures are soaring up to 47 degrees Celcius. A good number of the women and children displaced by the recent intercommunal clashes are up and about. At one end of…
Matebeleland Meryline Ncube wakes up in the wee hours of the day, she heads to the Kasibo Garden which is a result of a protected wetland. At this garden, she is expecting buyers from the nearby Hwange mining town to come for vegetables for resale. In her tattered wrapping cloth, she energetically grades the vegetables…
Chikwawa Twenty-eight-year-old Bertha Malefula dreads any sign of rain. Malefula who hails from Traditional Authority (T/A) Maseya in the flood-prone district of Chikwawa in Southern Malawi, had experienced two devastating flood disasters in her life. In January this year, the mother of three watched everything she had worked so hard for vanish due to the…
Kisumu It is a busy morning and Sarah Odero can be seen rummaging through dustbins placed outside salons across Kisumu City located in Western Kenya. The mother of four collects several pieces of synthetic waste hair waste and straightens them before lining them into a machine. After doing her chores, Sarah spends the better part…
Bunso One cold Tuesday morning in the heart of the Eastern Region of Ghana, Bunso Junction, we meet Amina Yakobo who wants to curve a different path in the charcoal business. The price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) has experienced a 5 per cent adjustment recently pushing it to ¢0.14 (below $1) per kilogram on…
For Tsitsi Chimwai, a 35-year-old mother of two from the Chief Neromwe area in Chiredzi District in Masvingo Province, gathering firewood for her family is a demanding task as nearby trees have been cut down hence she and other women walk as far as five kilometres. Zimbabwe being a low-middle class economy, has not yet…
Akwa Ibom At a corner of the busy road leading to Ibaka fish beach in Mbo Local Government Area (LGA) of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, Ms Mary Edet is seen offloading over 200 ice blocks from a vehicle into her mini-cool room, housing over six freezers to preserve her sea-foods for buyers later that evening….
Betty Sunday is a sad woman. She sits in silence as she ponders over reports she has heard from local radio stations. She is wondering what is likely to happen as an outcome of the Jonglei Canal that the government plans to resume digging. According to Ms Sunday who is also a woman representative, these…
Khartoum Khartoum is choking on waste to an extent that as a journalist, I found it hard to concentrate on one environmental issue and leave the others. If we are not talking about pollution and waste crisis, then it is illegal logging or erratic power and water supplies. All of these have adversely affected women…
