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Over 7million people in the countries that surround Lake Chad are living in extreme poverty and depend on food aid for survival. Insurgency, terrorist attacks, and Government corruption are seen as some of the main causes of the extremism in these areas. Tackling Climate-Fragility Risks explores and discusses the possibility of climate change being another factor contributing […]

By Kara Poppe, Johnson & Johnson Princeton in Africa Fellow When will the rains come? This is a common discussion topic in Nyumbani Village, Kenya, but one that until recently, was very new to me. In 2006, I was an adolescent in the United States, with little knowledge of the trials others experienced throughout the world—especially with

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, hailed the launch of the world’s largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant, a milestone in the emirate’s ambition to generate 75 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2050. The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) said on Saturday that it had selected Saudi Arabia’s

The new UNCCD 2018-2030 Strategic Framework is said to be the most comprehensive global commitment to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) in order to restore the productivity of vast swathes of degraded land, improve the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people, and to reduce the impacts of drought on vulnerable populations. “Some battles took

The rate of world hunger has increased for the first time in this century. A recent UN report found that 815 million of the world’s population were undernourished in 2016- 38 million people more than 2015. The report noted that the percentage of people living in hunger increased from 10.6 to 11% between 2015 and

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama has revealed plans on issues which Nigeria will be presenting during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) set to hold in New York, next week. Onyeama said in Abuja that terrorism and repatriation of stolen funds will form the core of the country’s agenda at the UNGA, adding

AUTHOR: EILEEN GALLAGHER; Manager, BSR Around the world, we are experiencing record-breaking extreme weather events—from monsoon flooding in South Asia, to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma the United States and Caribbean islands, severe flooding in Nigeria, and Typhoon Hato here in Hong Kong and southern China. The loss of life, displacement, and financial damage are devastating. While seasonal storms are nothing