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Young girls pull containers of water as they return to their homes from a well in the village of Lomoputh in northern Kenya, May 12, 2022
AFRICAN nations are considering a “debt for climate” swap to help them stave off the impact of the growing climate emergency.
Saddled with debt and ravaged by losses and damages from devastating weather events like cyclones, drought and extreme temperatures, African finance ministers meeting in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Monday have agreed to consider swapping debt to invest in climate action.
This comes as Russia has announced that it has agreed to write off more than $20 billion (£16.4bn) dollars in African debt.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT