Afrikanska storsatsningar på sol-el. Lite välbehövliga nyheter (som kanske egentligen inte är ”nyheter”) såhär på en söndag.

https://www.sverigesradio.se/play/artikel/9219203

#afrika #klimat #nyheter #söndag
#görhoppnormaltigen

Welterusten, meneer de president 😥

"1 miljard

Toch is niet iedereen verbaasd. Trump heeft het afgelopen jaar voor miljarden bezuinigd op ontwikkelingssamenwerking, toen hij de stekker trok uit de Amerikaanse hulporganisatie USAID. Afrika wordt het hardst getroffen.

De Verenigde Staten waren de grootste donateur van de Democratische Republiek Congo met 1 miljard dollar per jaar. Het geld ging ook naar de bestrijding van ebola. Volgens de Amerikaanse ambassade in de Congolese hoofdstad Kinshasa zijn zes kleinere ebola-uitbraken ingedamd in de afgelopen jaren.

Ook zijn honderden mensen in Congo getraind om dit soort gevaarlijke ziektes op tijd te ontdekken en te controleren. Ebola is zeer besmettelijk en via lichaamsvloeistoffen overdraagbaar. Zieken krijgen hoge koorts en kunnen binnen een paar dagen overlijden. Ook dode mensen kunnen ebola overdragen.
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De VS kan dit soort grote uitbraken op dit moment niet snel indammen, waarschuwt de Amerikaanse professor Craig Spencer van de Brown University op CBS News.
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"Voordat Trump aan de macht kwam, was USAID aanwezig in het veld. We hadden het virus meteen kunnen ontdekken of de uitbraak misschien zelfs wel kunnen voorkomen, want we zaten in verschillende landen", aldus Spencer."

https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artikel/5602525/grote-uitbraak-ebola-was-te-verwachten

#USAID #trump #afrika

Ivory Coast’s cocoa pile-up proves markets still have a sense of humor

Dear Cherubs, Ivory Coast’s cocoa business is having one of those “the spreadsheet looked fine until real life happened” moments. The world’s top cocoa producer is dealing with growing piles of unsold beans because the guaranteed farmgate price set by the government ended up higher than what traders and exporters could comfortably stomach. According to Reuters, that has slowed purchases, jammed up financing, and left many growers waiting for money that was supposed to be arriving, politely, by now.

THE PRICE TAG PROBLEM

Here is the basic drama: Ivory Coast uses a state-set cocoa price to shield farmers from wild market swings. Noble idea. Extremely tidy on paper. Less charming when global cocoa prices fall and the local price stays high enough to make buyers wince. Reuters reported that the 2025/26 farmgate price was raised to 2,800 CFA francs per kilogram on October 1, while global cocoa prices later slid hard as oversupply returned after the 2024 spike.

That gap matters. Traders have less incentive to pre-finance purchases, banks see more risk, and exporters end up treating the whole situation like a very expensive cautionary tale. Reuters said about 50,000 tons had been stockpiled in anticipation of the price rise, but much of it was then rejected by grinders because the beans were small, low-fat, and too acidic. So yes, the beans were there. The appetite was not.

WHEN THE BEANS DON’T MOVE

The pain does not stop at the warehouse door. Reuters reported that some farmers and cooperatives have gone unpaid for cocoa harvested over several months, and protests have already broken out in cocoa-growing areas. In May, Reuters also reported that the Coffee and Cocoa Council planned to send officials to calm farmers who said large stocks of cocoa were rotting while they waited for payment. Nothing says “healthy supply chain” like road blockades and tear gas.

The government has tried to soften the blow by buying residual stocks. Reuters reported in March that Ivory Coast pledged to keep purchasing up to 100,000 metric tons of excess cocoa at the guaranteed price, after tensions rose over the unsold crop. But with global prices still weak and domestic buying still sluggish, the bigger question is whether the system itself needs a reboot, not just another patch.

As noted by thisclaimer.com, this is what happens when a commodity market meets a fixed-price promise and neither side is in the mood to be reasonable. The result is a pile-up of beans, a pile-up of complaints, and a very unfun reminder that chocolate starts with economics before it ever reaches the fun part.

Sources:
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/high-prices-bad-quality-slow-down-ivory-coast-cocoa-purchases-sources-say-2025-10-17/
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ivory-coast-will-send-officials-calm-protests-by-cocoa-farmers-source-says-2026-05-12/
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ivory-coast-unsold-cocoa-stocks-set-to-soar-if-price-standoff-persists-2026-02-24/
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/ivory-coast-cocoa-farmers-fear-smaller-mid-crop-from-patchy-rains-2026-05-11/
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ivory-coast-reassures-farmers-over-purchase-excess-cocoa-stock-amid-strike-2026-03-03/
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ivory-coast-considers-reforming-cocoa-marketing-system-tackle-excess-supply-sources-say-2026-03-12/
thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com
Wikimedia Commons image — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cacao_fruit_in_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire_(7).JPG

Elizabeth Thompson, Botschafterin für Klimawandel von Barbados und Vertreterin des Climate Vulnerable Forum, schlägt verbindliche Finanzierungs- und Rechtsmechanismen vor, um die Länder zu einer schneller Reduzierung der Methanemissionen zu verpflichten. Freiwillige Klimaschutzverpflichtungen vermittelten nicht die nötige Dringlichkeit, um eine katastrophale globale Erwärmung abzuwenden.

https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2026/05/barbados-pushes-mandatory-methane-financing-framework-as-african-parliaments-meet-in-nairobi/

#Afrika #Klima

#vereinfachteSprache

Der westafrikanische #Monsun bringt den #Sommerregen, den die Menschen in #Afrika dringend brauchen.

Doch der #Klimawandel könnte den Monsun verändern. Was passiert, wenn es weniger oder zu viel regnet? Welche Risiken gibt es für die #Sahelzone? Mehr über diese wichtigen Veränderungen erfährst du im Artikel.

https://www.oekologisch-unterwegs.de/klimawissen-vereinfachte-sprache/1130-klimawandel-der-westafrikanische-monsun-koennte-sich-veraendern-und-die-sahelzone-gefaehrden-vereinfachte-sprache.html

#Westafrika #Regenzeit #Landwirtschaft