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Kigali International Financial Centre (KIFC) on Tuesday June 16, gained a new partner following the signing of a partnership agreement with CDC Group, the UK's development finance institution and impact
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Africa: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Other Global Ills Share Root Causes
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, the international treaties charged with solving two of the biggest problems of the 21st century, were both due to hold make-or-break meetings in
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Tanzania: How Sea Cucumbers Are Boosting the Bioeconomy in Zanzibar
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Europeans plan to build continental cloud to take on US giants
France and Germany threw their weight on Thursday behind plans to create a cloud computing ecosystem that seeks to reduce Europe’s dependence on Silicon Valley giants Amazon, Microsoft and
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Ghana calls for Africa united front on slavery reparations
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Earth Today | Gov’ts urged to prioritise environmental considerations amid COVID-19 storm
THE GOVERNMENTS and people of the Caribbean are reminded to keep environmental considerations as key to sustainable economies and overall development front of mind, even as they negotiate the challenges of the COVID-19
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Tree ambassador squeals over wood poaching
NATIONAL tree ambassador Never Bonde has petitioned various government departments over rampant deforestation and illegal firewood trading occurring in Bulawayo’s residential
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Africa: New Study Finds More Biodiversity in Richer Neighbourhoods
A unique global study has found that wealthier neighbourhoods in cities have more biodiversity in comparison to poorer ones - a pattern that scientists have called the 'luxury
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Jamaicans urged to protect pimento plants, bitterwood trees
THE National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is calling on individuals to desist from the unsustainable harvesting of pimento plants and the bitterwood
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Africa: Harnessing Tech to Employ Last-Mile Tree Planters in a COVID-19 World
The year 2020 started with such optimism and hope for nature-based solutions and environmental social and governance investments were high on the agenda at Davos; the World Economic Forum launched the 1 Trillion Trees campaign, backed by Salesforce; BlackRock's CEO sent an open letter to industry
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Afro-Colombians
Colombia has the second largest African descendant population in Latin America. According to the census of 2005, the government estimates that Afro-descendants make up 10.6% of the total population. This is 16% down from the government's previous estimations in 2002, which put the total
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HEATH: No size fit-all tourism model exists
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Exclusive: Cash Money Co-Founder Slim and Business Manager Vernon Brown on Partnering with New Orleans Mayor to Pay Rents Amid COVID-19
Co-founders and brothers Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams of Cash Money Records partnered with New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell to cover the cost of rent for the month of June for residents living in low-income
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ICT: Precious skills for individuals, and for society
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US$4-trillion fund holders tell Brazil to halt deforestation
PARIS, France (AFP) — Investment funds managing close to US$4 trillion in assets called on Brazil yesterday to halt deforestation of the Amazon in an open letter warning that biodiversity loss and carbon emissions pose a “systemic risk” to their
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Seaweed influx could provide opportunities
Director of the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES) at The University of the West Indies (UWI) Dr Patrick McConney says that Caribbean countries must be prepared for an influx of sargassum that is likely to continue for some
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Is your managed services partner geared to support your users at home?
Prior to Covid-19 compelling businesses to implement work from home (WFH) strategies earlier this year, an IWG survey found that in the past 10 years, 83% of businesses had already started or were planning to introduce a flexible remote work
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Kenya coronavirus: 1,888 cases, Kericho county records infection
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Africa: Agroecology Strengthens Farmers' Resilience but Highly Underfunded in Africa
Nairobi — With just a quarter of an acre of land in Kesses near Kenya's Eldoret town in the Rift Valley region, Samson Tanui is practising agroecology and his permaculture unit has become the centre of attraction for farmers from near and afar amid food shortages during the current COVID-19
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Tunisia: COVID-19 - 97 Percent of Private Clinics No Longer Able to Cover Their Operating Costs (Study)
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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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Africa: World Oceans Day - Don't Be Colour Blind, Help Blue Oceans Keep the Planet Green
We not only rely on the oceans for food, livelihoods, transport and trade but, as the lungs of our planet and its largest carbon sink, they also play a vital role in regulating the global
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Kenya: Nairobi Park Row - KWS Chair 'Resigns'
The storm began in mid-April when it emerged that Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), the custodians of the country's national parks and game reserves, planned to fence off the park and build luxury lodges through a new management plan dubbed the Nairobi National Park 2020-2030 management
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Angola: Environment Launches Project to Combat Illegal Trade
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