NNPC plans to borrow another $2 billion crude oil-backed loan to boost economy – Report
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is planning to borrow an additional $2 billion in crude oil-backed loans from international creditors to boost its financial inflow. Reuters reported that two sources familiar with the matter confirmed the details on Tuesday.
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Relief in South Africa after J&J reversal allows key tuberculosis drug production at lower prices
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Cameroon President’s lesbian daughter seeks review of anti-homosexual laws
The daughter of Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, Brenda Biya, has expressed hopes that her public announcement as a lesbian on June 30, would inspire a change to the country’s anti-homosexuality laws
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Lytton, B.C. Rebuilds at ‘Glacial’ Pace While Wildfires Burn from Brazil to Arctic
This story includes details on the impacts of climate change that may be difficult for some readers.
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‘It’s about survival’: Athens mayor focuses on getting capital through extreme heat
Trees, cooling centres, water stations. All three are on Haris Doukas’s mind as he sits in his office-turned-control centre on the top floor of city hall.
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Intense Heat, Drought Have Wildfires Raging from Brazil to Arctic Regions
This story includes details on the impacts of climate change that may be difficult for some readers.
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New Zealand’s sea temperatures hit record highs, outstripping global averages
New Zealand’s sea temperatures have hit record highs, outstripping global averages threefold in one region, and prompting alarm over the health of the country’s marine life and ecosystems.
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Osmosun installs its first desalination unit in Morocco for irrigation purpose
The Franco-Moroccan company Sand To Green has just installed a solar-powered seawater and brackish water desalination unit to speed up its regenerative agriculture project under way in the Guelmim-Oued Noun region of Morocco.
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South Africa’s Cape Town is hit by more storms, with 4,500 people displaced by floods and damage
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African city of Cape Town and surrounding areas were hit by more storms Thursday that ripped roofs off houses and caused widespread flooding, forcing at least 4,500 people out of their homes and damaging at least 15,000 structures, authorities said.
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Construction of One of West Africa’s First Nuclear Power Plant Takes Shape as Russia-based Rosatom Comes on Board.
Mali has inked a groundbreaking memorandum of agreement with Russia-based Rosatom to construct one of West Africa’s first nuclear plant. The governments of Mali and Russia have signed three memorandums of understanding on nuclear energy.
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Where East African oil pipeline meets sea, displaced farmers bemoan “bad deal” on compensation
The serene coastline of Chongoleani used to be a little-known paradise for local fishers and farmers just north of the Tanzanian city of Tanga.
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Global goal of tripling renewables by 2030 still out of reach, says IRENA
Despite growing at an unprecedented rate last year, renewable energy sources are still not being deployed quickly enough to put the world on track to meet an international goal of tripling renewables by 2030, new data shows.
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China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts
Coming to Grips With A Crash Prices for batteries in China are plummeting, and the implications are just starting to ripple outward for
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Nigerian refineries lost $1.8 billion to oil theft in nine years
Nigeria lost 619.7 million barrels of oil valued at $46.16 billion over a 12-year period. Nigeria lost $1.84 billion of petroleum products from its refineries over nine years Between 2009 and 2018, Nigeria lost 4.2 billion litres of petroleum products due to oil theft.<
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6 firefighters have died battling a bushfire in South Africa
Six firefighters have died battling a bushfire in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa and another two are in a critical condition, emergency services said Monday.
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A ‘new era’ in malaria control has begun with a vaccination campaign for children in Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Health workers in Ivory Coast began giving children the latest malaria vaccine on Monday, the beginning of a regional camp
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Trump’s Environmental Impact Endures, at Home and Around the World
Former President Donald Trump dismantled the pillars of U.S. climate policy when he exited the Paris climate accord and rolled back more than 100 regulations to protect air, water, endangered species and human health.
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NATO Report Outlines Growing Climate Risks to Global Security
Last week, world leaders from more than 30 countries across North America and Europe gathered in Washington to discuss the top security threats facing members of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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The World’s Sharks Face a Gauntlet of Threats From Marine Heatwaves—and ‘Coldwaves,’ Scientists Say
Over the last 450 million years, sharks have survived five mass extinctions, making them some of the oldest—and sturdiest—creatures still in existence today.
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