10 Botswana students to travel to China for Huawei ICT training program

Ten Botswana students are scheduled to start their information communication technology (ICT) training in China on April 8 through Huawei’s Seeds for the Future ICT talent training program. Speaking at the Seeds for the Future and Huawei ICT Competition 2019 award ceremony, which was held on Tuesday evening in Gaborone,capital of Botswana, Dorcas Makgato, Botswana Minister […]

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China to host World Environment Day 2019 on Air Pollution

Nairobi, 15 March 2019 – Today, the head of Chinese delegation, Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, and Joyce Msuya, Acting Head of UN Environment, jointly announced that China will host the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2019 with a theme of air pollution. Approximately 7 million people worldwide die prematurely each year […]

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Human health in dire straits if urgent actions are not made to protect the environment, warns landmark UN report

Nairobi, Kenya, 13 March, 2019 – The most comprehensive and rigorous assessment on the state of the environment completed by the UN in the last five years was published today. Called the The sixth Global Environmental Outlook, the report warns that damage to the planet is so dire that people’s health will be increasingly threatened unless urgent action is […]

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A week of climate change talks dampens the spirit of Africa

Over a week ago, full of expectations, hundreds of Africans left the continent for Katowice, Poland to attend the 24thUN climate change conference with the hope that developing countries would commit significantly to reducing greenhouse gases, and to funding Africa’s adaptation and mitigation measures. Mithika Mwenda, the Executive of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance […]

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Africa unites to finance its climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies

To realise their Nationally Determined Contributions, African countries have since seen the need to unite to reach their unconditional and conditional targets. To achieve their goals, country representatives attending the 24thConference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) in Katowice, Poland acknowledge their need for finance, as money is […]

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