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African, Japanese leaders praise King Mohammed VI’s climate and migration initiative
Hespress
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August 22, 2025
African and Japanese leaders hailed Friday in Yokohama the initiatives spearheaded by King Mohammed VI in climate action, migration, and sustainable development, underscoring Morocco’s pioneering role in advancing continental agendas. Meeting at...
TICAD 9: African, Japanese Heads of State Commend African Initiatives Launched by His Majesty the King on Climate & Migration - Final Declaration
Morocco News
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Friday 22 August 2025 The heads of state and government of Africa and Japan commended, on Friday in Yokohama, several initiatives launched by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, emphasizing the Sovereign’s pioneering role in promoting important...
Kenya to host Sh650m regional command centre in war on wildlife and environmental crimes
Star
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Tourism and Wildlife CS Rebecca Miano at a side event at the 9th Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development in Yokohama Japan /courtesyKenya will soon host a Sh650 million regional command and control centre in Nairobi that will...
Opioid grantee audit finds financial inconsistencies within Congo Legacy Center spending
Delaware Public Media - Delaware
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August 21, 2025
Delaware's Office of Auditor of Accounts (AOA) releases the second wave of opioid grantee audits, finding financial inconsistencies within Congo Legacy Center's plans to fund the Congo Tarir Project. The audits are being conducted on a rolling...
Outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases in Spain’s Andalucia set to be ‘new normal’ thanks to tropicalising climate
Olive Press
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August 21, 2025
EUROPE’S health watchdog has issued a stark warning that record outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases, including West Nile Virus, will become the ‘new normal’ across the continent – with Spain’s southern regions particularly at risk. The European...
Republic of Congo, AfDB sign $602,000 grant agreement to rebase national accounts
Fresh Angle
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The Government of the Republic of Congo and the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) have signed a $602,000 grant agreement to support the rebasing of the country’s national accounts, a critical step toward modernising its economic statistics and...
Republic Of Congo And The African Development Bank Sign $602,000 Grant Agreement To Rebase National Accounts
MENAFN
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August 16, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo, August 16, 2025/APO Group/ -- The Government of the Republic of Congo and the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) ( ) have signed a $602,000 grant agreement to support the...
Can Tech Turn the Tide on Wildlife Crime?
Hackster.io
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Wildlife crime is an existential threat to protected plant and animal species. Tigers, rhinos, elephants, and pangolins are at globally low population levels due to decades of poaching and exploitation. Less popular species like the Axolotl,...
Congo, AfDB sign $602,000 grant deal to rebase national accounts
Business Hallmark
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August 16, 2025
The Republic of Congo and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have signed a $602,000 grant agreement to support the rebasing of the country’s national accounts, a move expected to modernise economic statistics and boost fiscal transparency. The...
Africa steps forward to combat climate change
Sabah
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August 18, 2025
Climate change poses enormous challenges to the survival of human beings and economic development. The issue has become an important talking point of governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), researchers and academics for about half a...
The International Court of Justice can name climate obligations. Why won’t it confirm genocide?
Prism
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August 14, 2025
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) made headlines in July with a historic climate ruling. In a long-awaited advisory opinion, the United Nations’ highest legal body confirmed what many in the Global South have long known: Wealthy nations...
Tottenham transfer news: Savinho, Maghnes Akliouche, Morgan Rogers and more
The Independent
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August 22, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Agroecological market gardening: Benin’s climate-resilient farming solution
Mongabay
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August 13, 2025
Young entrepreneurs from the Agro-Eco Cooperative are bringing fresh energy to market gardening in southern Benin. They have adopted environmentally friendly methods and techniques such as using fertilizer made from ash and animal manure, along...
Newcastle United transfer news: Yoane Wissa, Marc Guehi, Jorgen Strand Larsen and more
The Independent
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August 22, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Experts Say Liberia’s New Environment Lab Could Slash Pollution if the Government Matches it With Enforcement
Front Page Africa
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August 13, 2025
Liberia’s Vice President stands with EPA Executive Director Emmanuel Yarkpawolo and other dignitaries during the dedication of the country’s new environmental laboratory at the EPA headquarters in Monrovia. Summary: Liberia’s new EPA environmental...
In Cameroon, sustainable cocoa farming helps protect both livelihoods and wildlife
Africanews
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August 12, 2025
In the heart of Cameroon’s cacao country, Indigenous Baka communities are proving that sustainable farming can protect both livelihoods and wildlife. Local Indigenous farmers depend on the rainforest for income from cocoa cultivation, but also for...
Remedy frameworks can improve sustainable forestry certifications & right past wrongs (commentary)
Mongabay
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August 11, 2025
Indigenous and local communities continue to grapple with the long-term consequences of deforestation and other harms, often at the hands of companies that have been excluded from sustainability certification programs, a new commentary from the...
Mapped: All the areas where wildfires have broken out in Spain, Turkey and Portugal as record-breaking heatwave continues
The Independent
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August 12, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Ammat Global Resources: Targets 70% Production Growth In Congo
MENAFN
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August 8, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) Ammat Global Resources is participating as a Gold Partner at the African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies conference - Africa's premier event for the energy sector, scheduled for September 29–October 3, 2025 in...
We're strengthening policies to encourage women's participation in armed forces, peacekeeping contingents: Rajnath Singh
The Economic Times
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August 22, 2025
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said "we are strengthening policies" to encourage women's participation in the armed forces and peacekeeping contingents to ensure that they have equal opportunities to "lead and serve". Singh said this in...