By Abel Akara Ticha Africa’s natural capital puts it in pole position to drive carbon neutral development. But there’s a time-bound catch, and it must rush to cash-in on a global battery electric vehicle (BEV) industry, ballooning towards $8.8 trillion by 2025. Below are 10 reasons to get cracking. 1) Beneficiating the DRC’s gargantuan reserves … Read more

By Abel Akara Ticha As the world trudges through the global food chain crunch, which has already triggered violent protests in Africa – with Sierra Leone topping the casualty charts, children, especially those of school going-age, are bearing the brunt. Given the situation at hand, I found it most tempting to highlight the plight of … Read more

This piece is in response to Charlotte Horler’s LinkedIn post titled “We’ve got a marketing problem” [on climate change messaging]. The post can be found here: https://bit.ly/3NONsJg Your (Charlotte Horler’s) concern is founded but don’t you think mainstream media have already showcased the paucity of actions to roll back climate change? The question is: where … Read more

By Abel Akara Ticha I) Introduction Among the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which morphed out of a rather checkered bid by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to transform the world by 2015, SDG 13 (“take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts”) is key. A prima facie look at the … Read more

By Abel Akara Ticha Is “Journalism under digital siege”? Well, UNESCO says yes! The organisation chose that as the theme of this year’s World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) on 3 May, to call on Governments and other powerful actors to refrain from using big data collection tools and artificial intelligence to track journalists, curtail their … Read more