Published on Aug 20, 2016
“I knew Climate Change was bad but i didn’t know it was that bad. I thought it was for our grandchildren.”
Dr. Guy McPherson excerpt from a presentation at California State University Monterey Bay.
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The Nigerian Navy used its superior firepower Friday to foil a pirate attack on a British-flagged freighter off the West African coast. A spokesman for the Nigerian Navy said all the crew were rescued unhurt and an inquiry’s underway to determine the events surrounding the attack. As Richard Bestic reports, the attempted hijack comes in a week when a report warned of a dramatic increase in acts of piracy and kidnap off the Coast of Guinea.
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The World Health Organization is asking African countries to consider setting up an African public health emergency fund. This is a $106.8 million strategy aimed at tackling public health emergencies in the continent.
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Nigeria has launched an emergency polio vaccination campaign after two new cases of the disease paralyzed children earlier this month (August 11). The government says it will immunize 56 million children by November. VOA’s Carol Pearson explains why it’s so important that Nigeria succeed.
Originally published at – http://www.voanews.com/a/nigeria-poli…
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The cloud forests of Costa Rica are being threatened by rising global temperatures and could soon be gone. That’s the stark warning from scientists who’ve studied the region for decades. Some claim that things have got so bad that the clouds themselves are disappearing, leading to permanent and dangerous environmental change.
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People across Iraq are enduring a heatwave with temperatures soaring at times to almost 60 degrees Celsius.
A lack of electricity and water means there’s little relief in sight. And forecasters are predicting more scorching temperatures.
Al Jazeera’s Mereana Hond reports.
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In Florida, one of the nation’s largest waterways is in danger as septic tanks are disrupting the fragile ecosystem of the state’s Indian River Lagoon. NewsHour Weekend special correspondent Lisa Desai has the story, which was supported by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
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The United Nations has expressed deep concern about the humanitarian crisis that Nigeria is currently facing. The United Nations Refugee Agency says the county’s economic slowdown, compounded by Boko Haram attacks, could mean 5.5 million people are in need of food aid in the northeast region by September.
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Cote d’Ivoire is set to hold a constitutional referendum on the 30th of October. One of the most pertinent issues in this constitutional vote is the controversial nationality clause, the main reason behind years of unrest and civil war.
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In our series 60 Years of Sino-African Friendship we present to you today the portrait of Wang Zhenchang, a Chinese doctor who sacrificed everything to go to Guinea in 2014 at peak of the Ebola virus epidemic. A story of love and friendship between China and Africa.
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