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Investors Urged to Support Forest and Landscape Restoration

By: Emmanuel Ntirenganya Investing in forest and landscape restoration as well as ensuring their sustainability will improve livelihoods of African people, experts have said. Speaking at a two-day Forest and.

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West Africa National Forest Investment Plan Validated

By: Samba Jawo Stakeholders in the forestry management recently validated the draft document of the National Forest Investment Plan of the ECOWAS member states in the framework of the Technical.

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ETHIOPIA: Effectively Tackling Drought, Famine

By: Solomon Dibaba Drought-induced food shortage has been a major challenge for Ethiopia over the last fifty years. The 1973, 1984 and cyclic droughts of recent times have all been.

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KENYA: Five Die in Raging Flood

Five people have died in various parts of Kwale County after they were swept away by raging floods as heavy rains continue pounding the Coast region. Kwale Governor Salim Mvurya.

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Over a Million Children Flee South Sudan

  More than 1 million children have fled South Sudan’s civil war, two United Nations agencies said Monday, part of the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. Another 1 million South.

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Somaliland Cancels Independence Day Celebration On Account Of Drought

  Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland declared that it has canceled this year’s celebrations of the day the region declared independence from the rest of Somalia, Somaliland Information Minister said. According to.

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Somalia Children may Suffer Acute Malnutrition due to Drought

Some 1.4 million children in drought-hit Somalia are projected to suffer acute malnutrition this year, 50 percent more than estimated in January, the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said in.

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Humanitarian Service Only Way Out of Yemeni Famine

  The UN has warned that 17 million Yemenis will be in famine unless the world sends urgent humanitarian help. Antonio Guterres, the UN chief, issued a call to action.

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In drought-stricken Somaliland, families try to survive on black tea

      By George Obulutsa and Abdirahman Hussein   In a makeshift camp beside a disused airfield in the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland, 32-year old Nima Mohamed sits.

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UK Pledges Aid to Help Combat Drought in Somalia

  By Abdi Sheikh   British foreign minister Boris Johnson recently met Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, pledging aid to help combat the effects of a devastating drought, the Somali.

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