Africa

Environment environmentNews 

Backbreaking quarry work only choice for Burkinabe teenager

June 17, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Africa, BURKINA, Burkina Faso, CHILDREN, Children / Youth Issues, CORONAVIRUS, HEALTH, Human Rights / Civil Rights, Labour / Personnel, MINING, Society / Social Issues, US

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – At an open-pit granite quarry in Burkina Faso’s capital, workers’ children play in the rubble while others

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Environment environmentNews 

Botswana investigates 154 elephant deaths, rules out poaching

June 15, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Africa, BOTSWANA, Crime, Emerging Market Countries, Environment, Government / Politics, Nature / Wildlife, Pictures, US, WILDLIFE

GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana is investigating the mysterious deaths of at least 154 elephants over two months in the northwest

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Environment environmentNews 

Villagers in Togo mourn homes swallowed by the sea

June 4, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Africa, Carbon / Emissions Markets, Environment, ENVIRONMENTDAY, EROSION, General News, Human Rights / Civil Rights, Pollution, Science, TOGO, US, Water, WORLD

BAGUIDA, Togo (Reuters) – The Togolese coastal community of Baguida has always had the ocean at its doorstep, but the

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Entertainment 

Zimbabwean film industry makes Netflix debut with ‘Cook Off’

June 1, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Africa, Arts / Culture / Entertainment, Diplomacy / Foreign Policy, Emerging Market Countries, Entertainment Production (TRBC), Europe, Film, Government / Politics, NETFLIX, Picture available, Pictures, US, Video, Zimbabwe

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean film Cook Off, a romance about a struggling single mother who finds love during a cooking

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Entertainment 

Italian woman wins Picasso painting in French charity raffle

May 21, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Africa, Art, Europe, France, Italy, Lebanon, Living / Lifestyle, Middle East, Overseas Development Aid, PICASSO, Picture available, Pictures, RAFFLE, Spain, Switzerland, United States, US, Video

Raffle organizer Peri Cochin delivers a speech as the name of the winner of the painting “Nature Morte, 1921” by

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Entertainment 

Live music lifts spirits in Burkina Faso’s coronavirus curfew

May 18, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Africa, Broadcasting (TRBC), BURKINA, Burkina Faso, CORONAVIRUS, COVIDLIVE, Entertainment Production (TRBC), Epidemics, HEALTH, Health / Medicine, Music, US, Video

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – On stage in an empty auditorium, backed by starry lights, Patrick Kabre plucks his electric guitar and

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Environment environmentNews 

World’s largest wealth fund blacklists Glencore, other giants over coal use

May 13, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Africa, Americas, Asia / Pacific, Banking and Investment Services (TRBC), BRAZIL, Canada, Carbon / Emissions Markets, Central Banks / Central Bank Events, Coal (TRBC), Company News, Content produced in Bangalore, Corporate Events, Credit and Corporate Debt, Crude Oil, Energy (TRBC), Environment, Europe, Funds, Gasoline, General News, Government / Politics, Government Finances, Heating Oil / Gasoil, Hong Kong, Integrated Oil and Gas (TRBC), Major News, Money Markets, Norges Bank, Norway, Oil and Gas Refining and Marketing (TRBC), Picture available, Pictures, Pollution, Renewable Energy, South America / Central America, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Specialty Mining and Metals (TRBC), SWF, Switzerland, Tanzania, Textiles / Apparel (Legacy), Textiles and Leather Goods (TRBC), United Kingdom, United States, US

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund is excluding some of the world’s biggest commodities firms from its portfolio,

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Entertainment 

Nigerian comics fight COVID-19 with gags and slapstick slaps

May 11, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Africa, Arts / Culture / Entertainment, COMEDY, CORONAVIRUS, HEALTH, Health / Medicine, Healthcare (TRBC), Human Interest / Brights / Odd News, Internet / World Wide Web, Islam, Media / Publishing (Legacy), Media and Publishing (TRBC), NIGERIA, Picture available, Pictures, US, Video

LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian comedian Maryam Apaokagi has a sure-fire way of getting people to listen to her coronavirus health

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Entertainment 

Nigeria taps the power of music to try to beat coronavirus

May 4, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Africa, CORONAVIRUS, Diseases, Epidemics, General News, Government / Politics, HEALTH, Health / Medicine, Healthcare (TRBC), Infectious Diseases, Living / Lifestyle, Media / Publishing (Legacy), Media and Publishing (TRBC), Music, NIGERIA, Picture available, Pictures, Religion / Belief, US, Video

LAGOS (Reuters) – Two dozen Lagos healthcare workers in scrubs and face masks rushed outside the isolation tents and, making

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Environment environmentNews 

Investors caution cement, steel firms on EU climate lobbying

April 10, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Africa, Asia / Pacific, China (PRC), Climate Politics, CLIMATECHANGE, CORONAVIRUS, Diplomacy / Foreign Policy, Environment, EU, Europe, Financials (Legacy), Financials (TRBC), Funds, General News, Government / Politics, Graphics, HEALTH, Health / Medicine, INDIA, International Trade, Investment Management and Fund Operators (TRBC), Major News, Metals and Mining (TRBC), Middle East, Mineral Resources (TRBC), Picture available, Pictures, Regulation, Turkey, United Kingdom, US, Western Europe

LONDON (Reuters) – Cement and steel companies are being warned by investors over their lobbying on planned European Union carbon

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