https://www.scmp.com/rss/328614/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com On a warm morning at the end of the rainy season, Vida Dede, a cocoa farmer, tossed the burnt remains of a plantain stem on a pile in Ghana’s Atewa Range Forest Reserve. It sits on a hilly trek through a dense grove just past the rural town of Sagyimase, a two hours’ drive north of the capital, Accra. The charcoaled ground beneath Dede’s feet was the result of controlled fires by farmers to clear old growth for new crops. But the pristine landscape had been equally pockmarked by illegal gold... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3032697/activists-ghana-lead-two-year-fight-against-chinese-bauxite-mine?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3032697/activists-ghana-lead-two-year-fight-against-chinese-bauxite-mine?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 13 Oct 2019 01:50:28 +0000 Alanson Aquante shrugged as he carefully pinched and turned fish on a large cement grill. “Before we had plenty of fish here and very cheap,” he said, barely visible through the smog that filled his smokehouse in Gunjur, a fishing community on Gambia’s southwest coast. “Now the fish is scarce I can sell it easily. The Chinese coming into the fish industry meant the price went up.” For almost a decade Aquante, 36, has earned a living smoking small pelagic fish like sardinella and bongato be... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/2164352/gambias-tolerance-chinese-fish-factories-tested-beijing-courts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/2164352/gambias-tolerance-chinese-fish-factories-tested-beijing-courts?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Sep 2018 06:15:30 +0000