Smart gas cooking seeks to break African cities’ dirty charcoal habit

By VOA,

The widespread use of charcoal for cooking in African cities can cause devastating damage to forests up to 300 kilometers away, scientist Sebastian Ro...

charcoal , digital platform , forests , mobile money , pay-as-you-go (PAYG) system , Smart gas

Kilifi: Cop shoots boda boda rider transporting charcoal

By Citizen Reporter,

By Abchun Abdi An investigation has been launched into the shooting of a Kilifi resident by police for allegedly transporting charcoal. Juma Saf...

ARABUKO SOKOKE , Dakatcha Woodland Forest , Kilifi County Commissioner Magu Mutindika

Woman abandoned by husband, family after delivering triplets in Isiolo

By Citizen Reporter,

By Moses Mwenda A 38-year-old woman has been abandoned by her family at a hospital in Isiolo County after giving birth to triplets. Elizabeth K...

Isiolo County , triplets

Top Forestry officials linked to charcoal business suspended

By Abdi Rizack,

The Kenya Forest Service has suspended three senior officials indefinitely for allegedly being behind a charcoal business. According to KFS, the synd...

Charcoal burning ban , Charcoal trade , Kenya Forestry service

Kalonzo: Kenya to be a desert if logging continues

By Ian Omondi,

Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has warned Kenyans to be prepared to have the country declared a desert if charcoal burning, sand harvesting and cu...

charcoal burning , Counsels Daniel Maanzo , cutting down of trees , Davidson Makau , Governor Charity Ngilu , kalonzo musyoka , Kenya Medical Association , KITUI COUNTY , Martin Oloo , National Cohesion and Integration Commission , Rachel Osendo , Saili Malonza , sand harvesting

Governor Ngilu receives backing over crackdown on charcoal burning

By Shadrack Ilava,

Mwingi Central MP Gideon Mulyungi has come to the defense of Kitui Governor Charity Ngilu’s move to ban charcoal burning and sand harvesting in the ...

Charcoal burning ban , Governor Charity Ngilu , KITUI COUNTY , lorry torched Kitui , MCA Kilonzo Maundu , Mwingi East sub-county , Nicholas Muma Kilonzi , Nuu , sand harvesting ban

To save forests, Tanzania considers tax on charcoal

By Reuters,

Tanzania is considering putting a tax on charcoal with the aim of discouraging the use of the fuel, which is a big source of energy for cooking but al...

charcoal tax , Tanzania

Girls turn poo to clean power in Cameroon biogas push

By Reuters,

An initiative by youth organisations in Cameroon to turn human waste into biogas is reducing pollution and providing cheap, renewable energy to the gr...

biogas , CLIMATE CHANGE

Man kills baby, injures wife, son over milk

By Treeza Awuor,

A middle-aged man was on Tuesday arraigned in Court after he surrendered to police after allegedly murdering his six-year old daughter and inflicting ...

Drought adds fuel to fire as Zambia loses battle to save forests

By Agencies,

B are-chested, Alan Siyampondo shovels soil onto a smoking kiln stuffed with burning teak wood to produce a batch of charcoal in the heart of Dambwa F...

Meru MCA threatens woman after breaking her leg

By Reuben Wanyama,

A single mother of two from Nkinyang'a village in Kangeta, Meru County wants area Member of the County Assembly (MCA) Romano Mwito arrested for allege...

esther kabotia , meru county

Mau Forest Critical To Kenya’s Water Supply

By Citizen,

It is the single most important water catchment in Rift Valley and Western Kenya. It is critical in securing the water supply for domestic, urban deve...