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Ronnie Paul is a seasoned writer and analyst with a prolific portfolio of over 100 published articles, specialising in climate change at Africa Digest News. While supercomputers struggled to predict the intensity of the 2024 Amazon fire season, exacerbated by historic drought and releasing millions of tonnes of CO₂, Yanomami fire watchers in Brazil’s Roraima state…
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Ronnie Paul is a seasoned writer and analyst with a prolific portfolio of over 100 published articles, specialising in climate change at Africa Digest News. There is no legal term “climate refugee” in international law, yet the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) counted a record 45.8 million climate-displaced people in 2024 alone, nearly double the annual…
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Ronnie Paul is a seasoned writer and analyst with a prolific portfolio of over 100 published articles, specialising in climate change at Africa Digest News. During India’s 2025 heatwaves, among the most severe on record, with temperatures exceeding 45°C in parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan, men died visibly on construction sites from heatstroke, but women suffered…
Ronnie Paul is a seasoned writer and analyst with a prolific portfolio of over 100 published articles, specialising in climate change at Africa Digest News. At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan’s delegate Ralph Regenvanu held up a simple pie chart: 20 rich countries caused 78% of historical emissions since 1850. Then he asked for the bill. This…
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South Africa’s renewable-energy landscape completed one of its most consequential transactions of the year when Cennergi Holdings, the green-energy subsidiary of Exxaro Resources, acquired ACCIONA Energía’s majority stakes in the 138 MW Gouda Wind Farm and 75 MW Sishen Solar Plant. The R1.7–R1.8 billion ($95–$100 million) deal instantly elevates Cennergi’s operating footprint from 200 MW…
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Proparco announced an undisclosed equity investment in BasiGo, the Nairobi-born e-mobility disruptor rewriting East Africa’s transit playbook. The investment slots into AFD’s €1 billion annual mobility mandate, and it directly accelerates BasiGo’s “Road to 1000” vision, scaling from today’s 100 electric buses to 1,000 zero-emission units across East Africa. With 1.4 million clean kilometres, 9…
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In a selection pool of 165 applicants from 33 countries with acceptance odds thinner than 6%, Octavia Carbon rose as the sole African company admitted into the prestigious Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative Year 5 cohort, announced on November 18, 2025. For the Nairobi-based direct air capture (DAC) startup, it wasn’t a lucky break. It…
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When Safaricom PLC opened subscriptions for its KSh 40 billion Domestic Medium-Term Note (MTN) Programme on November 25, 2025, Nairobi’s capital markets took notice. The programme’s debut tranche, a KSh 15 billion green bond carrying a 10.4% fixed coupon and exempt from withholding tax, quickly became the most talked-about security on Kenya’s financial timeline. With…
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When Uber rolled out Africa’s first fully electric ride-hail fleet in Johannesburg on November 24, 2025, the headlines focused on the 70 compact Henrey Minicars hitting the streets and the 350 planned by late January 2026. But the real engine behind this launch isn’t Uber. It’s Valternative Energy, a Durban-born EV infrastructure startup whose battery-swap…
When African and European leaders convened in Luanda on November 24, 2025, the European Investment Bank (EIB) placed a bold marker on the table: a €2 billion commitment to accelerate renewable energy development across Africa over the next two years. Far from cosmetic diplomacy, the pledge anchors a sweeping €15.5 billion Team Europe package designed…
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