AJSD's Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief Maurice Ekpong was the Chair at the recently concluded 11th Africa Sugar and Ethanol Conference which held at the prestigious Radisson Blu Hotel, Upper Hill Nairobi Kenya April 24 - 25, 2024. The annual conference organized by Informa Connect which can be viewed by clicking

Africa holds 17.8% of global population, contributes a paltry 3.7% to global greenhouse emissions and suffers disproportionately from climate change. According to a report published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), climate change in Africa is "harming food security, ecosystems and economies, fueling displacement and migration and worsening the threat

I will start by defining homelessness as the lack of a respectable, secure accommodation with access to clean water, sanitation and other public amenities that exposes the individual(s) or group(s) bereft of them to the vagaries and risks of weather, insecurity and public or private ridicule. According to a report of

According to a 2021 FAO report titled 'Review of Forest and Landscape Restoration in Africa', "up to 65% of productive land in Africa is degraded, while desertification affects 45% of the continents land area." Although "the overall trend is reducing, net loss of forests is still increasing, with three