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Get ready for ‘hell,’ UN food chief warns amid Ukraine shockwaves
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Get ready for ‘hell,’ UN food chief warns amid Ukraine shockwaves

World Food Programme flags famine risk in Africa and the Middle East as Ukraine war hits supplies.
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Why these West African architects are choosing mud over concrete
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Why these West African architects are choosing mud over concrete

The traditional building material is cooler, cheaper, and requires less energy to make. But convincing villagers in Burkina Faso to stick with mud isn't easy.

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Company plants trees in Burkina Faso to slow desertification in conflict zones

A Belgian-African company operating in Burkina Faso is planting trees to help curb desertification and open up lands for grazing cattle and farming. The project by the company, Hommes et Terre (Men and Earth), is taking place in Burkina Faso's dangerous conflict zones where expanding desertification is a cause for strife.

Camera: Henry Wilkins  

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Can the ‘Great Green Wall’ carry out Sankara’s ecological, pan-African dream?

Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso's folk-hero president, once marshalled a nation to halt the spread of the Sahara. Decades after his brutal death, a pan-African project of epic scale and ambition is aiming to reverse the creeping desertification that threatens to engulf a vast region, accelerating climate change, migration and conflict.

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climate migration
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Climate crisis could displace 1.2bn people by 2050, report warns

More than 1 billion people face being displaced within 30 years as the climate crisis and rapid population growth drive an increase in migration with "huge impacts" for both the developing and developed worlds, according to an analysis.

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Africa's Great Green Wall just 4% complete halfway through schedule

The world's most ambitious reforestation project, the Great Green Wall of Africa, has covered only 4% of its target area but is more than halfway towards its 2030 completion date, according to a status report.

Africa is humanitarian 'blind spot': The world's top 10 forgotten crises - report
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Africa is humanitarian 'blind spot': The world's top 10 forgotten crises - report

The African continent is a "blind spot" for coverage of the humanitarian crises that are being fuelled by the climate emergency, according to a new analysis.

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Maasai pastoralists turn to fish farming as drought decimates cattle

Maasai pastoralists turn to fish farming as drought decimates cattle

Rising natural disasters overwhelm emergency responders

Rising natural disasters overwhelm emergency responders

Floods once again devastate Pakistan, two years after 2022 disaster

Floods once again devastate Pakistan, two years after 2022 disaster

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Scientists warn that 2023's extreme ocean heat may signal a major climate shift

Scientists warn that 2023's extreme ocean heat may signal a major climate shift

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European farming lobbies agree to shift toward less meat consumption

European farming lobbies agree to shift toward less meat consumption

Insurers leave Maui wildfire survivors in unsafe homes, families say

Insurers leave Maui wildfire survivors in unsafe homes, families say