As demand for charcoal threatens indigenous trees, communities are finding new value in what was once treated as waste.

Charcoal is an essential source of domestic fuel in many sub-Saharan African countries. Overall, the region produces 65% of the world’s charcoal, with Nigeria, Ethiopia and Ghana being the top three ...

President Museveni has issued an executive directive banning the cutting of trees for charcoal. This came as a result of the increasing complaints, stemming from a section of leaders in Acholi ...

Eclipsed by energy sources such as gas and electricity, charcoal is often left out of contemporary discussions about the global energy transition. It's a resource that some manufacturing processes, ...

The Blantyre District Forestry Office (DFO) has attributed the rise in illegal charcoal production and selling to high poverty levels among Malawians. Malawi charcoal sellers Malawi is climbing up in ...

In May 2023, the President issued Executive Order No. 3 banning large-scale commercial charcoal production and trade in northern Uganda. This directive aimed to curb the rampant deforestation that has ...

Despite a UN ban on the export of charcoal, charcoal production is the main source of income for the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab. Because the area in which Al-Shabaab operates is inaccessible, ...

As rising gas prices drive demand for the polluting fuel, illegal loggers depend on the trade to live – even as the forest disappears around them Large swathes of Ruhoi forest reserve in eastern ...

Several acres of forest area closer to the buffer zone of the Udawalawe Forest Reserve were deforested following an illegal charcoal production factory. This illegal charcoal production factory was ...