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Africa: Climate Change Is a Threat to Africa's Transport Systems - What Must Be Done
[The Conversation Africa] Transportation infrastructure, such as roads and railway systems, is one of the sectors most threatened by climate change. Extreme weather events - such as flooding, sea level rises and storm surges - repeatedly wreak havoc on transport networks.
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Africa: Guterres Encourages Three UN Member States to Agree On Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
UN chief António Guterres is encouraging Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to persevere with efforts to overcome their differences and reach agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance
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Seychelles: EU Wants to Join With Seychelles On Climate Change Issue At Upcoming Cop26 Global Meeting
[Seychelles News Agency] EU leaders on Thursday told Seychellois politicians that they want to join the island nation on the issue of the environment and climate change at the upcoming U.N. environmental conference known as COP26.
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PHOTOS: Cyclone Tauktae Claims Over 50 Lives In India, Almost Hundred Missing | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
KOLKATA, India — Traveling at the peak of 170 kilometers (106 miles) per hour, Tauktae, a severe cyclone storm, ravaged India’s western coast killing over 50 people and leaving almost a hundred missing on May 17-18. The cyclone left a trail of destruction in
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters Leads Powerful Women's Coalition in Support of Heather Hutt for Assembly - Los Angeles Sentinel
Heather Hutt, former California State Director for then-U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, earned a high-profile and powerful endorsement from United States Congresswoman Maxine Waters in the special election race for California's 54th State Assembly District
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Earth Today | Field schools to cater to Clarendon farmers
MORE THAN 5,000 upper Clarendon farmers are to benefit from the establishment of five farmer field schools designed to build their skills in climate-smart agriculture and sustainable land conservation, among other areas. One hundred farmers will...
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'There is an urgent need for justice' - Mali teen urges UN to protect children in war zones
United Nations, US – A 15-year-old Malian girl on Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to protect children in war zones, lest they suffer
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Liberia: Swedish Government Approves U.S.$212 Million for Liberia
[LINA] Monrovia -- The Swedish Government has approved and adopted Sweden's new development cooperation strategy in Liberia from 2021 to 2025.
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NEMO Urges Hurricane Preparedness As More Storms Anticipated - St. Lucia Times News
The National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) has warned of the real and present threat posed by storms to Saint Lucia and other Caribbean Islands, with months to go before the Atlantic Hurricane season officially ends on November 30. The warning came as damage assessment in the aftermath
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African Union: African Journalists Call for the Cessation of Hostilities Against Journalists to Ensure Safe Practice of Journalism in Africa
Dakar — The Pan-African journalists organisation, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), together with national journalists' unions and associations across the continent have today called on the African Union (AU) to make the immediate cessation of targeted hostilities against journalists
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UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in Mali | New York Carib News
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has condemned an attack against peacekeepers in Mali, which left one Egyptian ‘blue helmet’ dead, and four others seriously injured, the UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
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Africa: Pandora Papers: Secret Tax Havens of World Leaders, Celebrities Revealed
[DW] Millions of leaked documents reveal the financial secrets of how world leaders, billionaires and celebrities use tax havens. Tony Blair, Ukraine's Zelenskyy and Shakira are among those named.
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Cameroon: Situation in the NW/SW Regions - Cameroon, Britain Discuss Peace Mechanisms
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Bombshell global tax evasion unearthed
Hundreds of world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious leaders, and drug dealers have been hiding their investments in mansions, exclusive beachfront property, yachts, and other assets for the past quarter-century,...
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Kenya: Nobel Laureate, Professor Richard Odingo, Dies
[Nation] Kenyan scientist and Nobel Laureate, Prof Richard Samson Odingo, has passed away.
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Libya: Has Haftar's 'Ponzi Scheme' Imploded?
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Kudos to ACB for intervening in controversial NOCMA fuel deals, Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee Chair Ganda, HRDC, Malawians vindicated
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#BTColumn – Ecocide as an international crime - Barbados Today
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Collaboration between regional partners, a highlight of pandemic response - Barbados Today
Strong partnerships have been identified as one of the main attributes of the region’s success in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic so far. Dr Joy St John, Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in a report reviewing the past year, said some of the main factors
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Kenya: Wanted - Concrete Plans to Address Recurrent Hunger
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Van Jones is a social-environmental activist and the Obama administration’s former “Green Czar.” He was born in 1968 in Jackson, Tennessee. His mother and father were a high school teacher and junior-high principal respectively. While growing up, Jones was a stereotypical
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