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• Environment (Africa)

  France, social mobilizations: Opposition to pensions counter-reform weakens Macron

  22 February 2020, by CREMIEUX Léon

  Since late January, the social and political situation in France has remained marked by popular opposition to the government’s counter-reform targeting the pension system. And, even if it has weakened in recent weeks, the mobilization has had a direct political effect of weakening and (...)

• Environment (Africa)

  Climate Change - Catastrophe is upon us–the grim view from Southern Africa

  28 January 2020, by DESAI Rehad

  The word catastrophe is being used more and more by institutions reporting on the effects of extreme weather in the two regions of Africa, Southern and South Eastern Africa, and of late Australia. The word means a number of things: tragic; fiasco; utter failure; sudden and violent change in a (...)

• Environment (Africa)

  South-eastern Africa: Cyclone Idai ’might be southern hemisphere’s worst such disaster’

  19 March 2019, by MACLEAN Ruth

  Millions from Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe affected as houses and roads submerged.
  The devastating cyclone that hit south-eastern Africa may be the worst ever disaster to strike the southern hemisphere, according to the UN.
  Cyclone Idai has swept through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe (...)

• Environment (Africa)

  Nuclear power in Africa?

  14 July 2018, by GARRISON Ann , HIMBARA David

  Rosatom—Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation—has recently signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with a number of African nations to build nuclear power plants within their borders. I spoke to David Himbara, a professor of international development and African energy activist, about (...)

• Environment (Africa)

  The Africa Mining Vision

  1 March 2018, by BOHNE Andreas, THIAM Ibrahima

  Can business as usual be visionary? Perspectives from four regions.
  Mining (particularly in its industrialised form) is a hugely controversial area – at a local and a global level. Locally, diverse impacts are tangible: proponents refer to job creation and to the contribution to economic (...)

• Environment (Africa)

  Indian Ocean: Rising sea temperatures are shaping tropical storms in southern Africa

  16 February 2017, by FITCHETT Jennifer

  A tropical storm – named Dineo . The storm can be upgraded to tropical cyclone status if these exceed 120km/h. Tropical cyclones are classified on the basis of strength and are measured according to the Saffir Simpson scale . This was developed in 1965 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and (...)

• Environment (Africa)

  From rainforest to monoculture farming: Africa’s forests ’threatened by palm oil rush’

  23 February 2016, by AFP

  Greenpeace France warns that tropical forests could be lost to a palm oil bonanza that has already razed millions of hectares of south-east Asia.
  Africa’s tropical forests are threatened by a palm oil bonanza that has already razed millions of old-growth hectares in south-east Asia, (...)