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States Overwhelmed by Coronavirus Pandemic Face Another Health Hazard as Massive Dust Plume Heads Toward Southern US

'Shell Must Not Get Away With This': Niger Delta Still Waiting for Big Oil to Clean Up Devastating Pollution

Jenna McGuire, staff writer

Fisherman push their boat during low tide on oily mud in the river at Ogoniland's village of K-Dere, near Bodo, which is part of the Niger Delta region, on February 20, 2019. -Decades of oil spills has left the Ogoniland region in southern Nigeria an environmental disaster zone. (Photo: should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

"After nine years of promises without proper action and decades of pollution, the people of Ogoniland are not only sick of dirty drinking water, oil-contaminated fish and toxic fumes. They are sick of waiting for justice, they are dying by the day."

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A Life of Heat 'Near Unlivable' for More Than 3 Billion People in Just Decades, Climate Report Warns

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Clearly we will need a global approach to safeguard our children against the...

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Ilhan Omar Joins Global Call for Debt Relief as Coronavirus Threatens to Push Developing Nations 'Over the Edge'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)

"We need to cancel all debt developing countries owe the World Bank and IMF,"...

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Locust nymphs aggregated on the ground at a hatch site near Isiolo town in eastern Kenya on Feb. 25, 2020

'Unprecedented Threat' for East Africa as Larger Second Wave of Locust Crisis Arrives Amid Pandemic

Locusts swarm from ground vegetation

'A Scourge of Biblical Proportions': UN Leaders Sound Alarm on East Africa Locust Crisis in Call for Global Response

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg

For Second Year Straight, Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Fridays for Future press conference

Fridays for Future Movement Urges Greater Global Focus on Africa's Climate Champions

Largely Driven by Climate Crisis, 9 Out of 10 Least-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2019 Were in Africa

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Climate-Crisis Fueled Locust Swarms Pose 'Unprecedented Threat to Food Security and Livelihoods' in East Africa

A file photo dated May 25, 2018 shows Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during his meeting with President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame (not seen) at the National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2019. (Photo by Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Awarded 2019 Nobel Peace Prize

Tipping Point: UN Biodiversity Chief Warns Burning of Amazon Could Lead to 'Cascading Collapse of Natural Systems'

Indigenous Tribes on Front Line of Amazon Rainforest Fires Vow to Resist Bolsonaro's "Destruction of Mother Nature"

Smoldering ashes are seen on the ground in Badu near Maiduguri on July 28, 2019, after the latest attack this weekend by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria has left 65 people dead. (Photo: AUDU MARTE/AFP/Getty Images)

Terror Attack in Nigeria Kills At Least 65 People in Latest Example of 'Sharp Increase' in Extremism Tied to AFRICOM

Rescued migrants sit on the coast of Khoms, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the Libyan capital Tripoli, on July 26, 2019.

EU Leaders Denounced for 'New Low' After 'Worst Mediterranean Tragedy' This Year Claims Lives of 150 Migrants

Libya

'This Attack Clearly Could Constitute a War Crime,' Says UN Envoy After at Least 44 Killed in Bombing of Libyan Migrant Detention Center

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The Peace Mothers

From Fambul Tok - family talk - a short film on the efforts of the extraordinary women of Sierre Leone to heal their communities, one village at a time, after a devastating decade-long civil war. A happy and peaceful Mother's Day.

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Amnesty International

Somalia: Zero accountability as civilian deaths mount from US air strikes

Global Justice Now

Reaction to UK-Africa Investment Summit

Amnesty International

U.S. Military Shows Appalling Disregard For Civilians Killed in Somalia Air Strike

Greenpeace

Response to Devastation of Cyclone Idai

Survival International

Letters Implicate WWF in Illegal Land Grab and Human Rights Abuses

Amnesty International - USA

Up to 100 Civilians Shot and Burnt Alive as UN Peacekeepers Leave Posts in Alindao

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Stephen Zunes

Sudan's Democratic Revolution is Being Undermined by the United States

Million Belay

Africa Says, "I Can't Breathe": An African Civil Society Perspective on Systemic Racism

Pauline Muchina, Kennedy Akolo

Leaders Must Act to Protect Refugees and Internally Displaced People in Africa

Nick Dearden

Don't Delay Developing World Debt—Cancel It

Aminata Touré

Africa Is Relying on its Own Forces in Fight Against Covid-19

Barcelona Research Group on Informal Recyclers

The World’s Waste-Pickers Under Threat

Megan A. Carney

When Politicians Turn Immigration Into a 'Crisis,' Entire Societies Suffer

Chuck Collins

Luanda Leaks and the Global Wealth Defense Industry

William Minter

Africa Could Power a Green Revolution

Nick Turse

Winter Is Coming