So far, key Pan-African conservation organisations spearheading the scheme say it’s too early to determine when the governance structure, capitalization and disbursement modalities for A-PACT will be deliberated and agreed upon by concerned parties
Conservationists are pushing for the establishment of the fund say at least $200 billion is needed to meet routine costs of conserving estates across the 54 countries.
Some $2 billion to $3 billion is what is urgently needed annually to allow the fund to kickstart and support the protected and conserved areas on the continent.
AWF says the new office will give it the much-needed base in the region, and pave the way for collaboration and partnerships with the government of Rwanda and local non-state actors in advancing conservation.
Experts are worried that this trend, especially in young audiences, is a threat to political opinion building and the abilities to participate in the public discourse.
Increasingly, financially-struggling media and journalists have been resorting to putting their content behind the paywall in a bid to raise revenues, definitely denying a section of the population who cannot afford subscription a chance to quality content access.
Bay View (BVG) and Spalena, both limited liability companies formed by American citizen, Roderick Marshall, had sued government of Rwanda over unfairly terminating a mining contract signed in 2007.
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand
