A general view shows the Standard Gauge Railway train constructed by the Chinese Communications Construction Company and financed by Chinese government.
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Representatives of 175 countries voted to start developing a global treaty to reduce plastic waste. Treaties addressing mercury, long-range air pollution and ozone depletion offer some lessons.
Special forces arrive at the scene of a terrorist attack at the DusitD2 hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya, in January 2019.
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Nairobi harbours all the ingredients for zoonotic spillover to occur between animals and people, particularly in the most densely populated areas of the city.
A bus and tro-tro station in Accra, Ghana.
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Phosiso Sola, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and Paolo Omar Cerutti, Centre for International Forestry Research
Demand for charcoal continues to increase in Kenya, it’s vital that the sector is better governed
Activists highlight some of the United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals in Lima, Peru (February 20, 2017).
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A new report from the GovLab and the French Development Agency (AFD) examines how development practitioners are experimenting with emerging forms of technology to advance development goals.
A person living with HIV shows her clinic appointment and anti-retroviral drugs regimen card.
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COVID-19 restrictions created life-threatening challenges to female sex workers as they weren’t able to access their medication, support or their clients.
Traffic flows past trees that have been felled to make way for a highway in Nairobi, Kenya on November 12, 2020.
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Parts of Nairobi are already dealing with temperature increases and reduction in humidity. These conditions are associated with increases in mortality, especially in children and the elderly.
Despite high prices, poor quality and inconvenience, Kenya’s urban poor continued to buy water from private vendors because it’s still their best option.
Men chew khat leaves in Nairobi’s Mathare slum.
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