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3 Key Facts About Bitcoin Halving You Need to Know
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2024-04-19, CoinChapter
Bitcoin halving 2024 Read CoinChapter.com on Google News NAIROBI (CoinChapter.com) — As the 2024 Bitcoin halving approaches, with fewer than 100 blocks remaining,...
UN calls for women's participation to boost climate resilience in Africa
File - Young girls pull containers of water as they return to their huts from a well in the village of Lomoputh in northern Kenya Thursday, May 12, 2022. United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths visited the area on Thursday to see the effects of the drought which the U.N. says is a severe climate-induced humanitarian emergency in the Horn of Africa
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2024-04-16, China.dot.org
NAIROBI, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The dream of a green, resilient, and inclusive future for Africa is within reach once governments harness the ingenuity of grassroots women...
First UN food aid in months arrives in Sudan’s Darfur as famine looms
FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 file photo, people prepare local crops of sugar cane and watermelons for sale, at Abu Shouk refugee camp, where they live on the outskirts of El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan.
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2024-04-05, Al Jazeera
The United Nations has begun distributing food in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region for the first time in months amid warnings of impending famine caused by a yearlong...
African farmers look to the past and the future to address climate change2024-04-28
Greenwood Commonwealth: HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the...
African farmers look to the past and the future to respond to climate change2024-04-28
Newsday: HARARE, Zimbabwe — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the...
Rewind. Fast forward. African farmers are looking everywhere to navigate climate change2024-04-28
Greenwood Commonwealth: HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the...
Ambiguous Abortion Laws Threaten Kenyan Women2024-04-28
OWP: The nature and wording of Kenyan abortion laws which prevent women from receiving safe abortions have recently come into question. As of2010, Kenya’s constitution was revised to allow for abortions when the life of the mother is in danger or when the...
Kenya flood death toll rises as more torrential rain forecast2024-04-28
The Observer: Seventy-six people in Kenya have died because of flooding triggered by torrential downpours since March, the government has said, warning residents “to brace for even heavier rainfall”. Kenya and its east African neighbours have been battered by stronger than...
Kenya ministry calls for regulation of TikTok rather than outright ban2024-04-28
Jurist: Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communications urged legislators to regulate the social media platform TikTok rather than ban it outright, the ministry told Reuters on Thursday. According to the ministry, the state should require TikTok to screen...
Nairobi City Government to Spearhead Groundbreaking Air Quality Initiative: Breathe Nairobi Strategy Set to Revolutionize Air Monitoring and Regulation (Nairobi City County)2024-04-27
Public Technologies: ) Nairobi, 27th April 2024 Nairobi CityCounty Government will soon establish City owned air quality data management system with an open public data access portal alongside air quality monitoring network to help reduce air pollution and safeguard public...
At least 70 people killed by flooding in Kenya as more rain is expected through ...2024-04-27
Wtop: NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Flooding and heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 70 people since mid-March, a government spokesperson said Friday, twice as many as were reported earlier this week. The East African country has seen weeks of heavy rains and severe...
At least 70 people killed by flooding in Kenya as more rain is expected through the weekend2024-04-27
Stars and Stripes: NAIROBI, Kenya — Flooding and heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 70 people since mid-March, a government spokesperson said Friday, twice as many as were reported earlier this week. The East African country has seen weeks of heavy rains and...
$2 Billion Massive New Nairobi Airport to be Constructed in Kenya as Pressure Mounts on JKIA2024-04-27
Construction Review Online: The President of the...
Kenya Flood Death Toll Since March Climbs to 762024-04-27
News18: Flash floods have submerged roads and neighbourhoods, leading to the displacement of more than 130,000 people across 24,000 households, many of them in the capital Nairobi......
Death toll from Kenya floods rises to 762024-04-27
Anadolu Agency: The death toll in Kenya from floods caused by heavy rains has risen to 76, the country’s government spokesperson said. "Since the onset of these rains, beginning 1 March 2024, we...
Kenya flood death toll hits 762024-04-27
Guam Pacific Daily News: AFP Apr 28, 2024 1 hr ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email The Kenyan capital Nairobi is suffering the worst impact from the downpours and floods with 32 dead and nearly 17,000 households displaced LUIS TATO Kenya and its East African neighbours have been...
Marshalling for a plastic-free future2024-04-27
Mail Guardian South Africa: The planet is choking on plastics — they have been found in the deepest parts of the oceans and on the highest mountain peaks. The global production of plastics has doubled relentlessly since 2000, reaching 460 million tonnes a year in 2019, with 353 million...