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COP21 Summit: More than a dozen African countries pledge to restore forests

African Restoration Initiative, a coalition of African countries and donors unveiled on Sunday, an ambitious initiative on the side-lines of a crunch UN climate conference, to restore 100 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2030. The ambitious project for which nine financial partners and 10 technical-support partners have already pledged support, aims to […]

UN Warns Against Humanitarian Crisis with Hormuz Disruption of Shipments

Disruption to energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz is exacerbating the risk of a global food shock, as higher gas prices squeeze fertilizer production and other sectors outbid agricultural producers for key inputs and logistics. With hunger looming, life-saving fertilizer shipments cannot wait, Head of UN task force says. In normal times, one third […]

Sierra Leone: 13 army officials arrested, 34 wanted in wake of ‘attempted coup’

A delegation from the ECOWAS Commission and Nigeria’s government, on Tuesday, (28 November) met with Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio, in an apparent show of solidarity for the country’s government following a recent deadly attack on the armory, expressing the West African bloc’s commitment to “the deployment, if need be, of regional elements.” The […]