The Herds project – a 20,000km (12,400-mile) trek to raise awareness about migration due to climate change – passes through Ouakam district on its journey from Kinshasa to the Arctic. Dakar, #Senegal

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Africa’s young voters voted for change in Ghana, Senegal and South Africa last year.

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Will Africa’s young voters continue to punish incumbents at the ballot box in 2025? We are about to find out

Youth unemployment and corruption have helped drive youth dissatisfaction on the continent, with major implications for governments and democratic strength.

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This crowdfunding thing, where platforms accept money from all over the world but only people based in certain countries can create campaigns, has bugged me a lot, so I wrote about it some more, wondering if it is a symptom of the colonial economic system that ensures money flows in only one direction. Read about it here, and let me know your thoughts!

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The Plight of African Filmmakers Seeking Film Funds

As I researched crowdfunding options for my next feature film, Big Tree, it pissed me off to discover that all major platforms, including kickstarter, backerkit, and indiegogo, allow creators only …

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The next generation of Bakonzo people will be profoundly impacted by the loss of glaciers. Masereka says: ‘I will tell my son it was very beautiful to have snow on the Rwenzori for our livelihood … it will be unfortunate, but I will encourage him to involve himself in conservation-related activities as an alternative to the snow, which was our resource in our time’

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A channel carrying water to communities in the foothills of the Rwenzori. Glaciers act as a buffer – feeding rivers during dry seasons and regulating water flow. Their loss increases droughts, floods and even wildfires.

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By 2024 the glacier on Mount Stanley has retreated. Project Pressure’s data revealed a loss in surface area of 29.5% between 2020 and 2024

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Mount Stanley holds the last glacial ice in Rwenzori, but the glaciers are fragmenting. This image was taken by Klaus Thymann in 2022

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The path to ascend the Rwenzori runs past Lake Bujuku, one of several lakes partly formed and replenished by glacial meltwater. The mountain range is the highest and most permanent source of the River Nile, with a water catchment relied upon by 5 million people, including the Bakonzo.

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By 2024, ice remained on Speke, but not enough to be defined as a glacier. The three highest peaks in the Rwenzori mountains – Speke, Baker and Stanley – have been so eroded by the climate crisis that only Stanley’s glacier remains.

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Africa's last glaciers

Mount Speke topped with ice in 2012. The Rwenzori mountains are one of the world’s most remote and dramatic landscapes, thought to be the legendary Mountains of the Moon mentioned by ancient Greek geographers such as Ptolemy.

Photographs by Project Pressure

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