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  • How Can Sierra Leone Learn From Mudslide to Avert Future Deaths?

    SIERRA LEONE, 2017/08/18 "Freetown and other precarious cities need safer urban planning and land use initiatives" A mudslide which devastated Sierra Leone's capital Freetown this week, killing about 400 people and leaving more than 3,000 homeless, has raised questions about deforestation, urban planning and disaster preparedness in the West African nation. The Thomson Reuters Foundation asked aid organisations, land rights activists and researchers what lessons Sierra Leone can learn from the mudslide to avert such crises in the future.
  • Arsyadjuliandi Rachman, Governor of Riau

    INDONESIA, 2017/08/11 Business-friendly Riau is working to encourage visitation and investment while as well preserving its forests Strategically on the eastern coast of Sumatra, along the Strait of Malacca and close to neighboring Malaysia and Singapore, Riau province sits at the center of the ASEAN region and is known for its natural resources and endless forests. The provincial capital and major city is Pekanbaru, which translates as ‘new market’ in Indonesian. It has long been known as a mercantile center since the Kingdom of Siak fell under the influence of the Dutch East India Company during the mid-1700s. This strategic city of trade was transferred to the Dutch authorities and remained a commercial investment during the colonial period.
  • Driverless buses will enter into service tomorrow in Tallinn

    ESTONIA, 2017/07/29  
  • Solar energy powers clean water, business opportunities for refugees

    TANZANIA, 2017/07/19 Sadick Thenest remembers how his 8-year-old daughter had a narrow brush with death two years ago, at the same time as she contracted cholera next drinking contaminated water. “She was so gaunt, weak and had terrible diarrhoea,” said the refugee from Burundi. “A slight delay in rushing her to hospital would have meant something else - but with God’s grace she survived.” The father of four, aged 35, is part thousands of refugees grappling with frequent outbreaks of waterborne diseases in the crowded Nyarugusu camp in western Tanzania, due to poor sanitation.
  • Benin moves to save part of West Africa's last big wildlife refuge

    BENIN, 2017/07/19 Benin is hiring scores of additional park rangers and bringing in conservation scientists to rehabilitate a part of West Africa's major wildlife reserve, which contains large cats and thousands of elephants that have largely died out elsewhere in the region. The W-Arli-Pendjari (WAP) complex is the region's biggest remaining expanse of savannah, covering additional than 30,000 sq km of Benin, Niger and Burkina Faso.
  • Plastic-Eating Caterpillar Could Hold Key To Tackling Plastic Pollution

    WORLD, 2017/05/04 Plastic waste fouls the ocean, poisons marine life, defaces the environment and clogs gutters and landfills; sticking around for years without breaking down and with no viable solution in sight. That was until the recent discovery that a caterpillar commercially bred for fishing bait has the ability to biodegrade polyethylene: one of the toughest and most used plastics in the form of store and supermarket shopping bags.
  • Revolutionary materials made in Japan

    JAPAN, 2017/04/30 Japan’s efforts to revive a stagnant economy have encompassed sectors across all categories, from food and beverages, to technology and infrastructure. The apparel fashion industry is faced with the same challenge of diversifying and innovating to meet changing consumer needs. An aging people has put a focus on additional comfortable and casual clothing, presenting a challenge for designers who are geared additional towards fashion. Japan has been a leader of style on the runways for decades by presently, inspiring trends around the world. As Sidney Toledano, Chief Executive of Christian Dior reminded us before this year, “It was the Japanese clients who launched the vogue for accessories in the 1970s and 1980s, by buying bags on their journeys to Europe.”
  • Egypt boosting its electricity capacity through renewables

    EGYPT, 2016/12/25 n a bid to boost Egypt’s power generation capacity, government officials are looking to increase production from solar and other renewable energy sources. To this end, the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy (MERE) has laid out a plan to increase the all of power generated from renewable energy sources from the current level of 12% to 20% by 2022. Solar on the rise In November the government announced it had signed power-purchase agreements (PPAs) worth some €600m ($662m) for approximately 400 MW of solar power capacity.
  • World Bank to Earmark $16 Billion for African Clean Energy Projects

    AFRICA, 2016/11/28 Clean energy projects will be flying high across Africa as the World Bank is planning to raise $16 billion for solar, hydro, and geothermal energy projects. Practice Manager for Energy and Extractives at the World Bank, Charles Cormier, said at a side event held at the African Pavilion at the COP 22, that the move is part of the Africa Climate Business Plan which was presented at the COP 21.
  • Morocco on Pace To Run on 100 Percent Green Energy by 2050

    CASABLANCA, 2016/11/02 Morocco is set to become one of the initial African nations to run on 100 % green or renewable energy. According to the Morocco World News, a study carried out by a team of researchers from Stanford University shows that Morocco could go completely green by the year 2050.The research studied the energy prospects of 139 different nations with the aim of developing a feasible and hypothetical green energy scenario for each country.