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The year 2020 witnessed the event being celebrated not only in the background of climate change impacts, but also in the midst of COVID-19, a deadly pandemic that has caused massive human casualties around the
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Death and destruction as floods rain havoc across EA
Already, Lake Victoria, which is shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, has hit the highest water levels in over 50 years, at 13.45 metres, causing widespread flooding in many
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Militant movement launched to fight cartels
A NEW militant group, Poverty Liberation Movement, was launched in Harare yesterday to effect citizen arrests, strategic boycotts and other punitive actions against cartels and known corrupt individuals in order to fight
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If We Don’t Solve Racial Injustice, We’ll Never Solve The Climate Crisis
During Hurricane Katrina, Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, was watching the news, seeing Black people on roofs waving anything they could find to beg the helicopters above to save their
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Kenya: World Bank Lends Kenya $43m for Locusts Fight
The World Bank on Thursday approved a $43 (Ksh4.5 billion) loan to Kenya to help in combating locust swarms that are destroying crops in Eastern
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Africa: Conditions are Rife for Next Pandemic Unless Urgent Action is Taken, WWF Warns
In a new report 'COVID 19: urgent call to protect people and nature', WWF says that the environmental factors driving the emergence of zoonotic diseases are: the trade and consumption of high-risk wildlife, land-use change leading to deforestation and conversion, expansion of agriculture and
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Senegal: COVID-19 Creates a Unique Opportunity for an Inclusive and Sustainable Food Policy
Nowadays, the food question is not only a challenge for the government but also for professional agricultural organizations, the private sector and citizens
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Death and destruction as floods hit western Uganda
In a related development in East Africa, floods have killed 65 people in Rwanda on Thursday and nearly 200 in Kenya last
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No Policy, No Peace: It's Time For Police Policy Reform
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Tanzania $15b budget banks on a quick economic recovery
In his budget presentation in the capital Dodoma, Finance minister Philip Mpango said government evaluations show the country had not been too badly affected by the pandemic, allowing it to raise its growth forecasts and maintain a firm financing schedule for ongoing development
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THE EDITOR: On September 22, 2017, I wrote a letter in which I tried to warn the nation "that the storms which are coming upon the world in this century will be the worst they have ever seen." This was shown to my uncle on September 23, 1978. I went on to explain that this 21st century, accor
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Hurricane Ida Continues to Wreak Havoc, Called Deadliest Storm in the History of New Jersey • EBONY
Hurricane Ida has continued to wreak havoc across the country. After it devastated New Orleans and its surrounding areas—which is still hurting from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, Ida slammed the Northeast on Wednesday with a combo of tornadoes, torrential rainfall, and massive
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Nightingale Grove on edge as active storm season looms
AS THE 2020 hurricane season begins in another two days, residents of Cedar Avenue in Nightingale Grove, St Catherine, have reflected on some scary experiences they have had in the past when heavy rains pounded the
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45% Of Black Businesses Anticipate Closing Due To COVID-19
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Soil erosion in Africa threatens food and fuel supplies and can contribute to climate change. For over a century, governments and aid organizations have tried to combat soil erosion in Africa, often with limited effect. So where do things stand in 2015, the International Year of the
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LETTERS: Goodwill needed to tackle dirty coal plants
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To safeguard the lives of Kenyans and livelihoods from climate crisis effects, in 2018, he announced that Kenya would be moving to 100percent green energy by
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Armed gangs have killed 21 people in the latest bloody assaults on villages in restive northwest Nigeria, police
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