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Time to abandon failing Green Revolution
Stockholm/Cambridge, US, 23 Sep (IPS/Million Belay and Timothy A. Wise) — As COVID-19 threatens farming communities across Africa already struggling with climate change, the continent is at a crossroads.
African govts failing survivors of child sexual exploitation
By Tsitsi Matekaire LONDON, Jun 26 2020 (IPS) – In Malawi, Mary was only 14 years old when she was recruited and trafficked to the city of Blantyre and sold for sex in a bar. A man had arrived in…
Greta Thunberg tells world leaders ‘you are failing us’
UN, 23 Sept 2019 Climate Change – Speaking at the beginning of the UN’s Climate Action Summit on Monday, the 16-year-old acclaimed climate activist Greta Thunberg, was unsparing in her criticism of world leaders, telling them that they are still…