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Sub-Saharan Africa
Everything ForecastGeo has ingested that places a story in Sub-Saharan Africa — 25 articles from 12 publishers.
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Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B
Article URL: https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ultra-rich-01-produce-more-carbon-pollution-nearly-half-humanity-while-cashing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284089 Points…
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Africa: From 44 Countries, One Shared Commitment - a Child Marriage-Free World
[IPS] Rome & Dar es Salaam -- The message from Just Rights for Children (JRC) was clear: protecting children must take precedence over customs used to justify their marriage.
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Africa: African Countries Could Save Billions By Cutting Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases At the Same Time
[The Conversation Africa] Lowering air pollution in Africa has many economic benefits, according to new research by environmental scientists Chris Malley, Kevin Hicks and Caroline Sawe. They reflect…
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Cameroonians await government reshuffle after Biya’s return
After 10 weeks abroad, Biya returned to Cameroon but has yet to appoint a new government or vice president.
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Africa: How Reliable Energy Can Turn a Woman's Harvest Into a Thriving Business
[allAfrica] At dawn in Enugu State, a crate of tomatoes begins a race against the heat. For the woman who grew them, the harvest should mean income: school fees, wages and seed for the next planting…
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Zimbabwe’s mobile clinic helps teenagers access contraception amid aid cuts
In Zimbabwe, a discreet caravan at a Harare-area hospital is giving teenage girls private access to contraception, away from judgment and stigma. Experts say access is vital to preventing unintended…
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Africa: World Cotton Day - The Real Value of Africa's Cotton Comes After the Harvest
[allAfrica] World Cotton Day should measure more than output. It should ask how much manufacturing, employment and African-owned value the continent creates from every bale it grows.
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EU unlocks humanitarian aid for Africa and other crisis-hit regions
EU allocates majority of aid to sub-Saharan Africa to fund actions related to migration, conflict and food insecurity.
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Nigeria faces the world’s highest projected death toll from super El Niño heat: what could save lives
Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Climate Impact Lab combined temperature forecasts with research on how heat affects death rates in more than 24,000 regions worldwide, and found that the…
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French cereal farmers experiment with African sorghum to beat the heat
Europe's maize crops have been hit hard by this summer's heatwaves and ongoing drought, with French producers saying almost half of this year's harvest is unusable. To prepare for hotter, drier…
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Chad Got Africa’s Biggest Growth Upgrade. Half of It Is Backdated
The World Bank raised Chad's growth forecast by 1.5 points to 5.2%, the biggest upgrade in Africa, on the back of the US0 billion Chad Connexion 2030 plan and oil ambitions.
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Appeals court rejects Trump's third-country deportation policy
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that U.S. immigration officials must offer detainees "a meaningful opportunity to contest" any deportation to countries where they have no ties.
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How Togolese people are reinventing political protest amid civil society crackdown
As in-person gatherings have become difficult to organize or too risky for citizens, online protest has become an increasingly common form of political dissent in Togo.
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Africa: African Farmers Demand Affordable Finance As Governments Fall Short On Funding
[IPS] Kigali -- Agriculture remains underfunded in Africa as governments struggle to deliver on decades-old promises to dedicate 10% of national income to agriculture.
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The people who live in cities must have a say in how they are shaped: Notes from the Common City Conference
Urban growth in Africa comes with falls on the poorest residents: forced evictions, informal settlements razed for redevelopment projects, with no consultation of the people who live there.
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Malian PM's visit to Algeria underlines need for mutual security goals
The acting head of the Malian government, General Abdoulaye Maiga has begun a two-day visit to Algeria. It comes amid a thaw after months of tension. RFI spoke to Bakary Sambe, the Director of the…
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Africa: Population Density - a Missing Factor in Development - - and Why This Is Africa's Moment
[African Arguments] Explanations of why Africa has lagged behind tend to reach for the familiar: weak governance, corruption, ethnic conflict, the legacy of colonial borders.
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‘We won’t go back’: Young Moroccan migrants in Ceuta refuse to abandon their European dream
FRANCE 24 spent an evening with unaccompanied minors who are sleeping rough in Ceuta but refusing to return home. Amid the fear, the cold and the long wait for help, these young Moroccan migrants…
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In Ceuta, migrants stranded at Europe’s gates await their fate
Weeks after some 70,000 migrants tried to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, the ones who chose to stay have settled on El Trampolin beach. They hail from various countries, speak…
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Hundreds of migrants arrested near Ceuta border in latest crackdown
Nearly 300 migrants and 61 alleged facilitators detained during mass migration attempt.
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Morocco tightens security as migrants gather near Ceuta border
Morocco has deployed heavy security around the border city of Fnideq after false social media rumours claimed the border to Spain's Ceuta enclave would open. Hundreds of migrants, mostly from…
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Would-be migrants intercepted near Morocco's border with Spanish enclave Ceuta
Scores of would-be migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, were intercepted on Saturday in northern Morocco near the border with the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, an AFP correspondent saw, two weeks…
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Morocco detains dozens of migrants trying to cross into Ceuta, reports say
Security had been stepped up amid suggestions on social media of a second mass crossing on Saturday.
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Moroccan police arrest over 100 migrants trying to reach Spanish enclave
A social media campaign encouraged people to flock to Ceuta just weeks after many died while making the crossing.
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Migrant children sleeping rough in Spain's Ceuta at risk of abuse
Hundreds of unaccompanied children are at risk of abuse and exploitation as they sleep rough on the streets of Ceuta after taking part in the mass migrant entry into the Spanish territory a week ago…