In recent years, there's been a huge, rising demand for donkey hides in China, where they are used to make an ancient health-related product called ejiao. Ejiao is made from collagen that's been extracted from donkey hides ...
Economics & Business
Feb 7, 2023
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African leaders are increasingly aspiring to "modernize" their cities. That is to make them "globally competitive" and "smart." The hope is to strategically position cities in Africa to drive the continent's much-needed socio-economic ...
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2022
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Forest landscape restoration is attaining new global momentum this year under the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), an initiative launched by the United Nations. Burkina Faso, in West Africa, is one country that ...
Environment
Mar 16, 2021
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Whether in flood early-warning systems or in agriculture—rainfall measurements are of great importance. However, there is a lack of accurate data for many regions in the world due to the fact that comprehensive measurements ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 3, 2020
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It's been 15 years since the UN unanimously endorsed the Responsibility to Protect, under which all countries have a responsibility to protect people around the world from four crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic ...
Social Sciences
Apr 22, 2020
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In the Sahel of West Africa—which covers Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad—land degradation has led to migration towards less densely populated and more fertile areas. The land has been made less ...
Environment
Jan 22, 2020
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The average British person will pump out more carbon emissions in two weeks than a citizen in any of seven African nations will emit in an entire year, the charity Oxfam said in a report Sunday.
Environment
Jan 5, 2020
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Floods in southeast Niger have forced 23,000 people to flee their homes since early October, officials said Saturday, threatening a new humanitarian crisis in a region already wracked by Boko Haram Islamist violence.
Environment
Oct 20, 2019
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The role of mosquitoes in spreading malaria is the biggest factor behind a recent study that found them to be the 'World's Deadliest Animal'. It is particularly concerning that current measures to control them (the most important ...
Ecology
Mar 28, 2019
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Urban farmers growing vegetables to feed millions of people in Africa's ever-growing cities could unwittingly be helping to spread disease by irrigating crops with wastewater, a new study reveals.
Environment
Oct 12, 2018
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