Learning under trees

In Nigeria, the Lagos State Parks and Garden Agency has succeeded in converting unloved open spaces into 170 parks, and has planted millions of trees in the last few years.

Adamawa Senator kicks against domination of North East Commission by Borno State.

South Sudanese refugee, Bidal Abraham uses his time in Uganda to promote a movement to conserve the environment. At 32-years-old he has already been forced to flee his home in South Sudan three times. Each time he made it safely to neighbouring Uganda but noticed a problem: there were always fewer trees.

People have to live with leaves falling from their neighbor's trees, a German court has ruled. But tree owners do have to stick to some regulations.

Elizabeth Wathuti, the 23-year-old climate activist planting trees in Kenya

80 percent of Boko Haram fighters are from Borno State

Cameroon is losing forest at a dramatic pace – with ebony trees fast disappearing. Now a Cameroon sawmill has partnered with US instrument maker Taylor Guitars, which favors the high-quality wood, to replant ebony trees.

The Borno state government has revived the monthly environmental sanitation exercise since it was last observed twenty-six years ago. The government believes this will help keep the streets clean even as the state gradually recover from the recent insurgent attack.

The closure of borders by President Muhammadu Buhari has encouraged and stimulated the production of local rice production in Borno state.

Unknown perpetrators made off with 80 Christmas trees being stored in an empty department store over the weekend. Police estimate that the trees were worth over €1,000.

Lagos state house of assembly has condemned the incessant harassment of coconut sellers in Badagry and the seizure of locally sourced coconut products by customs officers.

For most outsiders, Los Angeles is all about Hollywood, palm trees and sunny skies. But the huge metropolis that is home to nearly four million people is also the largest urban oil field in the country. Hundreds of active oil wells sit in densely populated and mostly low-income neighbourhoods of the county, butting up against schools, homes, parks, shopping malls or cemeteries.