When Africa lobbies America, it favors Trump connections With Trump in office, the ranks of lobbyists for African nations include: a right-wing Newsmax commentator, a hunting friend of Donald Trump Jr., a Proud Boy who attacked Capitol Hill and extremist provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. By Andrew W. Lehren, Trenton Daniel, Peter Aldhous, Sonya Dymova and Ajibola
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How product design fuels predatory lending in Nigerian fintech
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A CCIJ analysis details the depth of U.S. aid cuts to Africa. The slashed programs fight famine, shelter refugees, combat diseases. They even promote America’s national pastime, baseball. Now: “True chaos” reigns in the face of deaths and humanitarian crises. The financial toll is likely much larger.
What Africa lost under Trump: at least $5 billion. What it got in return: “true chaos.” Read More »
Southern Nigerian communities depend on the rainforest. So do endangered gorillas. But illegal logging, mining and disinformation leave them vulnerable.
“Forest Is Life” — But Nigeria’s Last Rainforest Is Falling Fast Read More »
As the world tackles climate change, Namibia remains influential in a way that few might suspect of a small, developing nation.
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Historically excluded from Colorado River policy, tribes want a say in how the dwindling resource is used. Access to clean water is a start. December 7, 2021 By Michael Elizabeth Sakas Ignacio residents, Marcella Gomez and Bernard Candelaria fill up thier water tanks at the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s water distribution center south of Ignacio,
With farms, ranches and rural communities facing unprecedented threats, a worrying trend leads to a critical question: Who owns the water?
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Record-breaking drought along the Wasatch Front forces tough decisions about water supply.
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For two decades, the Bureau of Reclamation incentivized farmers to pump water faster than the resource could recover, despite warnings from its own scientists. This year, residents of Klamath County paid the price, as hundreds of household wells went dry.
Navajo-Gallup water delay spurs problem solving in arid Southwest May 7, 2021 By Elizabeth Miller New Mexico In Depth Three new water tanks holding 5.7 million gallons sit on a bluff north of town. San Juan river water will flow into these tanks, and from there will be largely gravity fed through the new water
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An environmental coalition is lobbying for a moratorium on mega-dairies, which have proliferated in a water-challenged area of northeastern Oregon
Cheese in the desert: Why mega-dairies are piping water onto Oregon’s shrub-steppe Read More »
Struggle for water a daily reality for impoverished Nigerian island residents
“Waterpreneurs” cash in on government failure to deliver clean water to islanders Read More »
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