TAIWO ADEBAYO

Africa Business Climate Reporter

Adebayo covers business and climate change and how they intersect with communities in Africa. He is based in Nigeria.

Farmers break cocoa pods inside the conservation zone of the Omo Forest Reserve in Nigeria, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Takeaways on AP’s investigation into cocoa coming from a protected Nigerian rainforest

As the world’s demand for chocolate grows, farmers in Nigeria are moving into protected areas of a forest reserve that’s home to endangered species like African forest elephants.

Workers bag cocoa beans at a warehouse inside the conservation zone of the Omo Forest Reserve in Nigeria, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023..(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers

As the world’s demand for chocolate grows, farmers in Nigeria are moving into protected areas of a forest reserve that’s home to endangered species like African forest elephants.

FILE - A man sells grain in Dawanau International Market in Kano, Nigeria on July 14, 2023. Many poor countries in Africa face the harshest effects of climate change: severe droughts, vicious heat and dry land, but also unpredictable rain and devastating flooding. The shocks worsen conflict and upend livelihoods because many people are farmers — work that is increasingly vulnerable to a warming world. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

IMF and World Bank are urged to boost funding for African nations facing conflict and climate change

Most of the population in conflict-affected countries like Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and northern Nigeria depends on climate-vulnerable agriculture.

A Renault employee works on the batteries of the the Zoe electric car, on the assembly line of the Renault plant in Flins, west of Paris, France, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. The mining of minerals critical to electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies in Congo has led to human rights abuses, including forced evictions and physical assault. That's according to a report Tuesday from Amnesty International and another rights group. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Congo communities forcibly uprooted to make way for mines critical to EVs, Amnesty report says

The mining of minerals critical to electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies in Congo has led to human rights abuses, including forced evictions and physical assault.

Mark Munyua, CP solar's technician, examines solar panels on the roof of a company in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. Access to electricity remains a major challenge for over half a billion people in sub-Saharan Africa, and power outages are common. In South Africa and Kenya, solar is being used to power major businesses. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

As Africa Climate Summit promotes solar, off-grid power ramps up below the Sahara

Access to electricity remains a major challenge for over half a billion people in sub-Saharan Africa, and power outages are common even for those who are hooked up to the grid.

A bare-chested man loads timber onto a truck inside the Omo Forest Reserve in Nigeria on Monday, July 31, 2023. Conservationists say the outer region of Omo Forest Reserve, where logging is allowed, is already heavily deforested. As trees become scarce, loggers are heading deep into the 550-square-kilometer conservation area, which is also under threat from uncontrolled cocoa farming and poaching. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Logging is growing in a Nigerian forest home to endangered elephants. Rangers blame lax enforcement

Logging is threatening Omo Forest Reserve in southern Nigeria, which is home to endangered wildlife like African elephants.

Sunday Abiodun, 40, second from left, a former poacher turned forest ranger, sets out on patrol with other rangers inside the Omo Forest Reserve in Nigeria, on Monday, July. 31, 2023. The reserve faces threats from excessive logging, uncontrolled farming, and poaching. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

A Nigerian forest and its animals are under threat. Poachers have become rangers to protect both

Omo Forest Reserve, a tropical rainforest in southern Nigeria, faces threats from excessive logging, uncontrolled farming and poaching.

A man displays imported and local grain in Dawanau International Market in Kano Nigeria, Friday, July 14, 2023. Nigeria introduced programs before and during Russia's war in Ukraine to make Africa's largest economy self-reliant in wheat production. But climate fallout and insecurity in the northern part of the country where grains are largely grown has hindered the effort. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Climate and violence hobble Nigeria’s push to rely on its own wheat after the hit from Russia’s war

Nigeria is trying to make Africa’s largest economy reliant on its own wheat production. But climate change and violence in the northern part of the country, where grains are largely grown, have hindered these efforts.

FILE - Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., speaks during the House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on the administration foreign policy priorities on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Washington. A measure has been introduced in the U.S. House to ban imported products containing minerals critical to electric vehicle batteries but mined through child labor and other abusive conditions in Congo, where China has enormous mining stakes. (Ken Cedeno/Pool via AP, File)

US measure would ban products containing mineral mined with child labor in Congo

New U.S. legislation would ban imported products containing critical green transition minerals mined by child labor in Congo.

In this grab taken from video, workers stand by a container to collect oil spill waste, in Ogoniland, Nigeria, June 16, 2023. An oil spill at a Shell facility in Nigeria has contaminated farmland and a river. It's upended livelihoods in the fishing and farming communities of part of the Niger Delta, which has long endured environmental pollution caused by the oil industry. (AP Photo)

Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria

An oil spill at a Shell facility in Nigeria has contaminated farmland and a river. It’s upended livelihoods in the fishing and farming communities in part of the Niger Delta, which has long endured environmental pollution caused by the oil industry.

Solar panels on the rooftop of a house in Abuja Abuja, Nigeria. Saturday June 17, 2023. Nigeria's removal of a subsidy that helped reduce the price of gasoline has increased costs for people already struggling with high inflation. But it also potentially accelerates progress toward reducing emissions in Africa's largest economy. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)

Ending Nigeria’s fuel subsidy pushes a shift to solar. Without a climate plan, progress is at risk

Nigeria’s removal of a subsidy that helped reduce the price of gasoline has increased costs for people already struggling with high inflation.