Africa: Why Africa's Ocean Leadership Matters Now

Protect Antarctic krill to preserve the health of Africa’s coastal communities (commentary)

African leaders must demand an end to industrial krill fishing in the Southern Ocean while at the Our Ocean Conference this week, before irreversible damage is done, Angola’s Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources warns in a new op-ed at Mongabay. Antarctica and the ocean systems upon which Africa depends rely on krill — the []

Africa: With 2030 Looming, Ocean Leaders Warn Time Is Running Out for 30x30

[allAfrica] Mombasa, Kenya -- A significant challenge for the conservation sector is the 30x30 goal to protect 30 of the planet's oceans by 2030. It heavily depends on the High Seas Treaty (BBNJ agreement), which is the first legally binding agreement to establish Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the open seas. Before the treaty, nearly half the planet's ocean surface, the high seas, had almost no formal protection, with less than 1 safeguarded. The agreement is now the essential pathway to deliver the roughly 11 million km² of

Africa Doesn’t Have A Leadership Deficit. It Has A Leadership-Narrative Deficit.

The most important investment an African leader can make in 2026 is in who gets to define them. By Oti Egwu There is a story the world tells about Africa, and you know it before I describe it. Tales of risk before opportunity, crisis before competence, a continent to be managed rather than a market []

African Economic Conference 2026 explores pathways for more influential Africa in multipolar world

African Economic Conference 2026 explores pathways for more influential Africa in multipolar world

Why Ghana can’t ignore plastic pollution and marine litter: A World Ocean Day reflection

As the world marks World Ocean Day, the call to “sustain what sustains us” carries particular urgency in Ghana.