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Kenya court blocks East Africa's first coal plant

Kenya's environment court blocked recently the construction of a coal-fired power station on the country's idyllic Indian Ocean coast, in a move hailed as a major victory by campaigners fighting a

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Tshisekedi OK’s military crackdown on illegal miners in DRC

The Democratic Republic of Congo will begin forcibly removing some 10,000 artisanal miners from the Glencore mines where nearly four dozen people died last week, according to Bloomberg.

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Grid collapse worsens electricity supply in parts of Nigeria

The latest system collapse reported on Sunday may have worsened the poor electricity supply situation in the country.

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Poachers kill white rhino at Lake Nakuru, chop off horn

A white rhino was on Sunday night killed and horns chopped off at Lake Nakuru National Park.

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Report cites level of cancer threat

At least 32,987 Kenyans died of cancer in 2018 as revealed by a latest report on the extent the disease has ravaged the country.

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Invasive foreign plant chokes Nigeria's rivers and dams

The water hyacinth is a foreign weed introduced in the early 1990s to Nigeria. Since then it has spread rapidly to two-thirds of the country's rivers.

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GM mosquitoes released in Burkina Faso in malaria study

Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in Burkina Faso as part of an anti-malaria campaign.

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Rising heat stress could cost 80 mln jobs by 2030 - U.N.

Rising heat due to climate change could lead to the loss of 80 million jobs by 2030, with poor countries worst hit, the United Nations said on Monday, as Europe sweltered in record temperatures.

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Global warming targets at risk from energy plants' CO2 emissions

Carbon emissions from existing and planned fossil fuel energy plants and projects will exceed the amount needed to curb global warming, jeopardising a 1.5 degree Celsius temperature limit goal, sci

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Zimbabwe: Compensate Cyclone Idai Victims - World Bank

Government must consider compensation for victims of the devastating tropical storm that wreaked havoc mainly in Manicaland's south-eastern district early this year, leaving over 400 people dead an

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