Merem Tahar is a fervent activist for climate justice in Africa, but also for the defense of the rights of your people, the Gâ or Toubous, from northern Chad.
She has also just been named ambassador for “La Fresco de la desertification”, an educational tool to fight against drought.
Also in the contents of this issue: Niger, under sanctions, uses solar energy.
Equipped with more than 55,000 solar panels, the Gorou Banda power plant is the largest solar energy infrastructure ever built in the country.
Built before the coup d'état, this recently commissioned photovoltaic plant will produce 30 megawatts and alleviate the shortages, which have been numerous since Nigeria stopped supplying electricity.
In Nigeria, bioethanol, cheaper than gas, is booming among consumers.
This greenish gel is made from organic materials, such as food and agricultural waste or even water hyacinth.
But this fuel is also less harmful to health.
In DR Congo, artists are mobilizing to raise awareness of the environmental cause.
This is the case of the music group Kin'Gongolo Kiniata.
These five members, from the working-class neighborhoods of Kinshasa, are geniuses of resourcefulness and recovery.
They use recovered objects as instruments and produce sounds inspired by the streets of the capital.
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