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Africa: Christiana Figueres Replaces Greta Thunberg at the 10th Tutu Peace Lecture
[Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation] The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation announces with regret that Greta Thunberg has withdrawn from speaking at the 10th Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture to be held on Archbishop Desmond Tutu's 89th birthday on 7 October 2020.
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Source: allAfrica.com
Dominica calls for Commonwealth aid to help cope with COVID-19
LONDON, England (CMC) — Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Wednesday said that the Commonwealth is uniquely placed to advocate on behalf of its members, particularly small states, on issues that threaten their survival such as the novel coronavirus
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Africa: Addressing Africa's Nutrition Challenges By Strengthening Indigenous Crops
The African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) is an international effort to improve nutrition, productivity and climatic adaptability of some of Africa's most important food crops, thus helping to decrease malnutrition and stunting among the continent's most vulnerable population, especially rural
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Earth Today | World Bank rep makes case for clean energy
A MOVE to clean energy and a relook at the transport sector have been given the stamp of approval for the Caribbean and Latin America to build back better with COVID-19, given prevailing climate-change realities. This, from Carlos Felipe Jaramillo...
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Swarms of locusts devastate parts of northern Kenya
The branches on trees around Kenya’s northern town of Lodwar have been stripped bare of leaves, bending downwards under the weight of voracious young
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Africa: Why COVID-19 Offers a Chance to Transform UN Peacekeeping
This greater need for peacekeeping efforts offers an opportunity for the UN to explore a real spectrum of peace operations beyond the large multidimensional
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AMANDA EDWARDS ENDORSES ROYCE WEST
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US report warns climate change could create economic chaos | The Atlanta Voice
The far-reaching consequences of climate change have the ability to create chaos in the financial system and disrupt the American economy, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The report, the first of its kind by a US government entity, calls for Congress to swiftly impose a price on
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Southern Africa: SADC Approves 2050 Vision and Development Plan
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) approved Monday the organization's 2050 Vision, which is based on the solid foundation of peace, security, and democratic governance.
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J'can calls on UK to drop diplomacy in dealing with racism, inequality
ONE of Britain's recognised influential blacks — Jamaican Paulette Simpson — has called for a movement away from heavy reliance on diplomacy to treat with racism and inequality in
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Earth Today | COVID-19: An opportunity to ‘build back better’ in the Caribbean
“I am concerned that efforts to rebuild economies and societies will be prioritised, without an understanding that the lack of concern for man’s interaction with nature caused this pandemic and some other outbreaks in recent years,” said Dr Lorna Inniss, coordinator for the Cartagena Convention
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VIDEO: Wildfires Plague Northern Spain – The Wilmington Journal
The American West isn't the only region in the world fighting major forest fires. Northern Spain, for instance, is currently home to nearly a dozen blazes that burned more than 9,800 acres of land last [...]
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Contributing towards resilient capacities to vulnerable communities
guest column:Peter Makwanya BUILDING resilience in vulnerable populations requires helping them to improve their coping capacities to climate change. This would also enable them to adapt their livelihoods as well as improving their governance systems. The reason is that future problems of this
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Goat Islands Wildlife Sanctuary gets support
The Urban Development Corporation’s (UDC) Goat Islands Wildlife Sanctuary project has received technical services from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) valued at approximately
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Newswire : World food security increasingly at risk due to climate change impact
Speaking at the launch of a Special Report on Climate Change and Land by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Geneva, experts highlighted how the rise in global temperatures, linked to increasing pressures on fertile soil, risked jeopardizing food security for the
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Africa: Idris Elba Sounds Alarm As Pandemic Threatens Food Crisis for Farmers
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Idris Elba on Friday called for urgent action and creative solutions to prevent a looming hunger crisis in poor countries, where food production and transport have been disrupted by the coronavirus
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Africa: UNHCR - Help Us Protect the Environment to Protect Refugees
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, joins the U.N. Environmental Programme in observing World Environment Day
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Sierra Leone National Water Resources Management Agency meets ministers
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 July 2020: The National Water Resources Management (NWRMA) last Thursday, held discussions with Ministers and Heads of Agencies at its office in Freetown to review the Western Area Water Catchments Protection and Restoration effort. The discussions also assessed the
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Africa: Fridays for Future - How the Young Climate Movement Has Grown Since Greta Thunberg's Lone Protest
[IPS] At the end of her first week on strike in August 2018, Greta Thunberg handed out flyers that said: "You grownups don't give a shit about my future." Her appearance at the 2019 UN Climate Summit capped a year in the spotlight for the teenage climate activist. Delegates at the summit gave her
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LETTERS: Why we need 100pc green energy this year
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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Africa Day 2020 - a Unique Opportunity for Reflection
On Africa Day, it is well worth noting that any given set of data visualisations reveal that African countries have thus far been spared the worst of Covid-19's direct effects, though the knock-on effects of global and local policy decisions are still to be fully accounted
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Nigeria: Jihadi Groups, Criminals Aggravate Herder-Farmer Conflicts in North-West - Report
The long-running clashes between herders and farmers in north-west Nigeria have been aggravated by "an explosion in criminal activity and infiltration by jihadi groups," says a new
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Dealing with the deadly concoction of disease and disaster
So, as the Commonwealth rallies around the governments and people of India and Bangladesh, we are once again forced to face the persisting reality of climate change and natural
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Egypt: Binding Agreement Over GERD Is Not the Path to a Win-Win Solution
[Ethiopian Herald] Egypt's call for a binding agreement over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is not acceptable as it has to do with future and unpredictable climate issues and affects Ethiopian generations to come. In fact, such issues have to be dealt with at the time once the
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Source: allAfrica.com
Is Africa Overpopulated?
Is Africa overpopulated? The answer by most measures is no. As of mid-2015, the continent as a whole had only 40 people per square mile. Asia, by comparison had 142 people per square mile; Northern Europe had 60. Critics also point to the how many less resources Africas population consumes versus
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Rwanda: Govt Unveils U.S.$11 Billion Climate Action Plan
Rwanda has become the first African country to submit a new national climate plan, whose implementation requires $11 billion (10.2 trillion), as an essential tool to implement the Paris
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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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Green Legacy: Ethiopia's 5 billion tree seedlings project kicks off
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Africa's Oil Producers Eye Energy Independence After COVID-19
"If you look at the big African producers like Nigeria, you are seeing a huge loss and contracts being put on hold across the continent," explains Rogo, whose company released a report calling for action to shield producers from Covid-19 and the oil price
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Kenya: 14.5 Million Citizens Are Food Insecure - Study
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