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Closing the Chain: What Africa’s waste tyre systems require
Africa

Closing the Chain: What Africa’s waste tyre systems require

Ahana Ghosh
4 min read
Two foundational pillars of regulatory and market measures can help move tyre recycling from scattered initiatives to effectively functioning systems
How do women entrepreneurs survive in Ghana’s informal economy? We went to a local market to ask them
Africa

How do women entrepreneurs survive in Ghana’s informal economy? We went to a local market to ask them

Nadia Zahoor
4 min read
Despite challenges, they demonstrate resilience through strategies such as risk diversification and social networking
Africa's tyre waste crisis: Tech exists, scale doesn’t. How policy must step up
Africa

Africa’s tyre waste crisis: Tech exists, scale doesn’t

Ahana Ghosh
6 min read
Scattered recycling can't match the continent's mounting scrap tyre burden
Africa needs 50 million new homes, but building is bad for the environment: how to finance ‘green’ solutions
Nigeria’s crypto boom isn’t just about technology – trust plays a role in the local gadget trade with China
Killer beetles in the baobabs: Researcher warns of risk to African trees
Critical mineral mining faces risks if local communities aren’t consulted enough: Case of lithium in Ghana
Coffee cherries.
Sand mining and Kenya’s building boom: Better rules are needed, but not from the top down
African climate science-policy has a serious blind spot: Slowing Atlantic circulation
Tanzania is losing fertile land to soil erosion: What’s happening and what can be done
International aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding by cutting staff, localising and coordinating better
To stop deforestation in Africa: Boost investments in agricultural research
Faecal sludge management in Ethiopia.
Becoming human in southern Africa: What ancient hunter-gatherer genomes reveal
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