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Gates Foundation pledges $7B for health, farming in Africa

Bill Gates, on a visit to Kenya, has announced his foundation will spend $7 billion to improve health, gender equality and farming in Africa

The Independent UK

Victorian Liberals tasked with winning back African voters after 2018 'gang violence' election campaign

Headlines around the 2018 state election focused on the threat of so-called "African gangs", and it's left an enduring mark – on the community it tarnished and the Liberal Party trying to win majority support so it can form government.

ABC News

COP27 roundup: how the world can stick to its carbon budget fairly

How much CO₂ can humanity emit before we push global temperatures 1.5°C above the pre-industrial average? That was the limit agreed in 2015 which scientists say offers us a reasonable chance of averting climate breakdown. The answer, according to a new assessment of the remaining carbon budget, is 380 billion…

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Gates Foundation pledges $7 billion for Africa as Ukraine war diverts donor cash

The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation said on Thursday it was committing $7 billion to Africa over the next four years, as Bill Gates warned that the Ukraine crisis was reducing the amount of aid flowing to the continent.

Reuters

From an ‘Emily in Paris’ cookbook, to Africa’s impact on global style, to the British royals in Vogue, books make great holiday gifts

There’s always a great selection around the holidays for a range of ages and interests.

Chicago Sun-Times

Can an African team win the World Cup? New football study crunches the numbers

Many football lovers hope an African team will finally win the men’s 2022 Fifa World Cup. The world has been waiting for this since the great Brazilian player Pelé predicted (in the 1970s) that an African country would win before the year 2000. That didn’t happen, but it didn’t stop…

The Conversation

Senegal World Cup squad 2022: Full fixtures, group, ones to watch, odds and more

The champions of Africa have the chance to add to a historic year and emulate the side of 20 years ago

The Independent UK

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African mountains are feeling the heat of climate change

Mountains are special places. They have distinctive climates that are generally cooler and wetter than surrounding lowlands, and they host plants, animals and landscapes that are uniquely found in these environments. However, mountains are under threat because of climate change, and this has an impact on every single property of…

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Obama to announce expansion of young leaders program to US

An Obama Foundation program that has trained hundreds of young leaders across Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Europe is being expanded to include the United States

The Independent UK

Even remote corners of Africa are feeling the costly impacts of war in Ukraine

In Chad, one of the continent's poorest countries, rising food and fuel prices — and drought — have left many hungry and unable to afford the limited food that is for sale.

WEKU

‘You’ll rarely find a climate denier in east Africa’

Having spent years in the US, journalist Caroline Kimeu is now seeing the agonising impacts of the climate crisis in Kenya

The Guardian - UK

Woman fumes after being stuck with brown water for months as crates of bottled water are sent to her

Water bosses have admitted the supply to Aynslie Collis' house "might not be aesthetically pleasing," but have insisted it is safe.

Daily Record

World Cup 2010: When football’s biggest party arrived in Africa

In the 2015 FIFA corruption case, it emerged the bidding process was corrupted by paying bribes to then-FIFA official.

Al Jazeera

Renewable energy will need more investment, or Africa will stay dependent on fossil fuels

Renewable energy technologies such as solar photovoltaics and onshore wind power can help sub-Saharan Africa meet its energy requirements from sources that have lower emissions than fossil fuels.

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Antrim GAA star set to depart for ‘Plant the Planet’ GAA games in Kenya

Saffron legend Neil McManus will join 50 leading GAA players heading to East Africa to to highlight the impact of climate change and raise sufficient funds to plant one million trees

The Conversation

Africa has vast gas reserves – here’s how to stop them adding to climate change

The question of whether Africa should be allowed to exploit its gas reserves, estimated at more than 17.56 trillion cubic meters (620 trillion cubic feet) in 2021, has been much discussed at the latest UN climate change summit, COP27, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

The Guardian - UK

What Tanzania tells us about Africa’s population explosion as the world hits 8bn people

Dar es Salaam, which is heading for megacity status, typifies a region growing three times faster than the global average

The Conversation

Why it's important to understand the unique plight of internally displaced people in Africa

The African Union adopted an agreement more than 13 years ago to prevent the arbitrary displacement of people and to uphold the dignity of such victims.

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Woman King is set in Benin but filmed in South Africa - in the process it erases real people's struggles

The latest film by director Gina Prince-Bythewood, The Woman King, is about a legendary all-woman African army in the 1800s, the Amazons of Dahomey. It takes place in what is today the Republic of Benin in west Africa. It wasn’t filmed in Benin, but in South Africa, in the KwaZulu-Natal…

Al Jazeera

Female-led African health startups press on despite funding lags

Industry stakeholders say there has to be an intentional shift in investment strategy in the male-dominated field.

The Conversation

Global climate finance leaves out cities: fixing it is critical to battling climate change

Under the Paris Agreement, which came into force in 2016, countries agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and work together to adapt to the effects of climate change. To act on this, and codify their individual commitments, each country submitted its so-called Nationally Determined Contribution.

Wales Online

World's population will hit eight billion people today

Much of the growth is coming from developing nations in Africa

WEKU

'Stay here, work here, succeed here': Why this Senegalese woman is against migration

Yaram Fall is staunchly against people leaving Africa to build their lives elsewhere. "The development of Africa comes from its own people," she says.

The Guardian - UK

Climate-focused reform of World Bank could be done in a year, says Al Gore

Former US vice-president says bank should refocus its spending and end its role in ‘fossil fuel colonialism’

The Conversation

As the 8 billionth person is born, here's how Africa will shape the future of the planet's population

In mid-November 2022 the eight billionth person will be born, according to the United Nations. In its analysis of this milestone, the UN makes two key observations. The first is that the global population has been expanding at its slowest rate since 1950. The growth rate dropped below 1% in…

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