Southern and Eastern Africa face the twin challenges of growing agricultural production to meet food demand while adapting to extreme weather. And climate change makes addressing these challenges extremely urgent. Southern Africa is a climate…
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If you’ve ever emailed a resort in Fiji or Vanuatu about that long-awaited holiday, it’s likely your email travelled through an undersea internet cable. Such cables carry much of the internet traffic around the globe,…
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The governors of a number of African central banks debated the serious challenge that Africa’s rising debt could pose to financial stability at an annual congress last week, with most believing that rising borrowing will…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — Another Federal Reserve meeting looms and markets are all psyched up, with stocks likely to fall the next 48 hours as the dollar rises on (more) speculation of…
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Two important global events are coming up that are widely hoped to help address what the United Nations calls the “dual challenge” – fighting climate change and ensuring that poorer countries can develop sustainably. Energy…
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© Reuters. Sugar apples are displayed in a market in Recife June 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Taiwan threatened to take China to the World Trade Organization on Sunday after Beijing said it…
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President Joe Biden and many other public leaders called for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign after an official report in August concluded that Cuomo had “engaged in conduct constituting sexual harassment under federal…
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US startup Colossal Biosciences has announced plans to bring woolly mammoths, or animals like them, back from extinction and into the frosty landscape of the Siberian tundra. Colossal has received US$15 million in initial funds…
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The Bank of Canada intends to move to a policy of keeping its sovereign debt holdings “roughly stable”, governor Tiff Macklem told business leaders on September 9. He did not lay out a timetable for when…
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3/3 © Reuters. Flames come out of a domestic gas ring on a stove in Manchester, Britain, September 18, 2021. REUTERS/Phil Noble 2/3 By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Saturday it would work…
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