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Africa: Planet's Life-Support Systems Need Care to Avert 'The Next Wuhan'

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -- As climate impacts and the COVID-19 pandemic take their toll, what makes people and nature resilient needs a rethink, Johan Rockstrom says

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WESTERN BUREAU: People’s National Party (PNP) self-proclaimed ‘Chairman for Life’ Robert Pickersgill has been admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies. Highly placed sources in the PNP confirmed his hospitalisation, but declined to...

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Ashes instead of soap: Inside Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 fight | Afro

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Africa: Afro-Pop Star Yemi Alade to Promote Women's Empowerment and a Green Covid-19 Recovery As New Goodwill Ambassador for UNDP

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