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6 days ago | 
peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny
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Inadequacy of preventive and coping strategies to address conflict and climate change is holding back Africa’s growth prospects, a new World Bank report has revealed. Climate change does not directly cause conflict, but it exacerbates existing tensions and vulnerabilities, acting as a “threat multiplier”. This means it intensifies competition for resources, drives up food prices, and heightens geopolitical instability, potentially leading to conflicts.
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1 week ago | 
peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny
A new study has revealed how least developed countries and island nations are suffering from crippling debt worsened by global currency fluctuations and climate disaster-ravaged economies.
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1 week ago | 
peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny
On 3 May, Kenya joined the international community in marking World Press Freedom Day, just two days after International Workers Day, commonly known as Labour Day. These two commemorative days are intimately linked to Human Rights Day, observed annually around the world on 10 December. Press freedom, human rights and workers’ rights are intertwined.
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1 week ago | 
peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny
Representatives from 180 countries are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss restricting toxic chemicals, including a widely used pesticide and a common stain repellent. Negotiations started last week and end on Thursday, as part of a series of biennial meetings known as Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions.
These conferences come amid mounting concerns that hazardous chemicals are flooding the Earth.
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1 week ago | 
peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny
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Two experts yesterday narrated how an unlikely partnership of industries, researchers and Indigenous peoples – after a protracted struggle – agreed on the equitable use of genetic data from plants that make many blockbuster medicines and products.
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1 week ago | 
peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny
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World leaders and institutions last week held the first Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) high-level dialogue to advance resilience and support for vulnerable nations. The meeting on the sidelines of the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, was convened under the leadership of the FRLD board in coordination with the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
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2 weeks ago | 
peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny
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A coalition of scientists across the globe have created the viability of fusion, the power of the sun and stars, as an abundant, safe, carbon-free energy source for the planet.
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2 weeks ago | 
peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny
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Kenya’s hard-won independence was achieved through relentless struggle against oppression, exploitation and injustices perpetrated by the colonialists. Ironically, the new independence government acquired some bad habits from the colonialists, usurping the new constitutional order to politically oppress and economically exploit citizens.
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2 weeks ago | 
peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny
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President Donald Trump has opened a major legal battle with ocean conservationists after signing a controversial executive order allowing deep-sea mining despite objections from 30 countries worldwide. Trump’s executive order evoked instant objections from leading ocean experts, including the Ocean Conservancy, which is working to protect the ocean from today’s greatest global challenges.
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2 weeks ago | 
peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny
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Worsening climate change impacts have triggered a wave of mental health problems among teenagers in many African countries, a new study has revealed. The study focused on teens in rural Madagascar found that hardship caused by severe drought, floods and storms is taking a dramatic toll on young people’s emotional wellbeing in climate-hit countries, with the effects going far beyond climate anxiety.
