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Within the framework of the project ’Paradoxes of Sustainability’ AfricAvenir hosted a dialogue forum with the energy expert Dr. El Mostafa Jamea on the topic "Desertec – Consequences for Society and Environment in North... |+| read article
Within the framework of the project ’Paradoxes of Sustainability’ AfricAvenir hosted a dialogue forum with Nigerian environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey on the topic ‘Green Economy on the move – how can Africa profit from the energy turn?’ In his interview... |+| read article
To conclude the international conference ’Paradoxes of Sustainability – how socially equitable are ‘green’ technologies really?’ (19.-20.10.2012) Tidiane Kassé, chief editor of the French edition of Pambazuka, held the concluding speech in which he formulated... |+| read article
Speaking at the conference ’Paradoxes of Sustainability’ (19.-20.10.2012), Tidiane Kassé, journalist and chief editor of the French edition of Pambazuka, deliberates on ‘The African Development Bank´s Strategies for Renewable Energies & Reactions from... |+| read article
Speaking at the conference ’Paradoxes of Sustainability’ (19.-20.10.2012), Many Camara addresses the ramifications and risks of uranium extraction for affected population groups and the resistance against the extraction of uranium in the Malian municipality... |+| read article
Speaking at the conference ’Paradoxes of Sustainability’ (19.-20.10.2012), Nozipho Mabebe Wright from Energia Africa, elaborates on the potential for renewable energies and decentralised power supply in southern Africa to empower women and to address the... |+| read article
As a prelude to the conference ’Paradoxes of Sustainability – how socially equitable are ‘green’ technologies really?’ (19.-20.10.2012) Prof. Judi W. Wakhungu, director of the African Centre for Technology Studies, held the opening speech on the current... |+| read article
Speaking at the conference ’Paradoxes of Sustainability’ (19.-20.10.2012), Prof. Judi W. Wakhungu, director of the African Centre for Technology Studies, deliberates upon the current proliferation of renewable energies in Africa as well as the chances and... |+| read article
Within the framework of the project ’Paradoxes of Sustainability’ AfricAvenir hosted a dialogue forum with the peace and conflict researcher Odile Tendeng (Gorée Institute, Dakar) on the topic ’Mali’s Resource Curse?! – Another conflict about Uranium?’ In the... |+| read article
Within the framework of the project ’Paradoxes of Sustainability’ AfricAvenir hosted a dialogue forum with the lawyer and human rights activist Jean-Claude Katende on the topic ’Copper and Renewable Engergies – how is our solar electricity related to the... |+| read article
Within the framework of the project ’Paradoxes of Sustainability’ AfricAvenir hosted a dialogue forum with the energy expert Kulthoum Omari on the topic ’Gender and Renewable Energies in southern Africa’. In the subsequent interview, Omari elaborates on... |+| read article
Odile Tendeng, Friedens- und Konfliktforscherin und Programmkoordinatorin der Alliance for Peace Initiatives am rennomierten Gorée Institute in Dakar, Senegal, berichtet in diesem Interview über die aktuelle Lage in Mali, konfligierende Interessen und die... |+| read article
Nnimmo Bassey (Nigeria) ist Aktivist, Vorsitzender von Friends of the Earth International und Träger des Alternativen Nobelpreises 2010. In diesem Interview legt er dar, was die sogenannte "Green Economy" ist und warum... |+| read article