31 August 2022
Gabon claims it has preserved its natural environment with satellite imagery and environment-first policies – and some industry insiders agree.
23 August 2022
The DRC has two main goals in selling oil blocks that overlap with the world’s second largest rainforest. Neither involves developing oil.
17 August 2022
There are too many animals for the available water supply in the Gobi desert region. The situation worsens each year.
Main photo: Bolortuya Bekh-Ochir, right, and Jargalsuren Tungalagzaya fill a trough with water for a herd of goats in Mongolia's Gobi desert region (URANCHIMEG TSOGKHUU, GPJ
15 August 2022
The DRC’s plans to auction off drilling rights to oil and gas companies in the Congo Basin threatens global climate targets and undermines international climate summits.
14 August 2022
Copper remains Zambia’s principal export and tax earner. But getting the product out is subject to challenges of both hardware and software.
The towns on the road to Mongu are memorable for their roadside stalls and shiny tomatoes, throngs of people in brightly coloured chitenge, and the
15 July 2022
Main image: A coal mine in Afghanistan. (file photo)
Cash-strapped and cut off from international aid, the Taliban-led government is tapping into Afghanistan's natural resources to boost revenue.
Since the Taliban toppled the Western-backed government in Kabul and seized power in August 2021, the
7 July 2022
Main photo: The Chinese fence inside Myanmar’s territory in October 2021. / NamKhamnews
China has cut off electricity to a border village in northern Shan State for nearly nine months due to boundary disputes, according to residents.
27 June 2022
Près de la frontière avec le Soudan, les mercenaires russes pillent les mines artisanales en Centrafrique. Ils auraient tué des dizaines de travailleurs clandestins depuis le mois de mars 2022.
23 June 2022
Known as the rice basket of the country, the delta now sees houses tumbling into rivers and livelihoods lost
When a riverbank subsided and gave way, Tran Van Bi’s house collapsed into a river in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta four years ago. Everything his family had accumulated over 32 years was gone in
23 June 2022
Tensions are spiking once again in the chronically turbulent eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The M23 rebel movement — widely thought to be long dead — has dramatically resurrected. And DRC president Félix Tshisekedi has accused Rwandan president Paul Kagame of again backing it with
13 June 2022
Much of the landscape of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province has been transformed, its formerly vast forests razed for logging, monocrop agriculture and open-cast coal mining.
A recently published study analyzes how waves of extractive industries have affected the inhabitants of one village in the
9 June 2022
So little money has been allocated to cleaning up the legacy of the South African mining industry that it will take another 70 years to clean up just a fraction of the country’s more than 6,000 abandoned mines.
There are roughly 6,100 “derelict or ownerless” mines scattered across South Africa,