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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"

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"We're putting our bodies and our lives on the line to try to save our territories."

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

Jenna McGuire, newsroom staff

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)

"Attempting to eradicate terrorism by force may be exacerbating the problem,...

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

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

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

Search and rescue missions by NGOs must be decriminalized, say human rights...

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Libya

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

Sudan's Pro-Democracy Opposition Urges 'Total Civil Disobedience' After Soldiers Massacre 35 People at Peaceful Sit-In

People stand on top of a broken bridge

Latest 'Wake-Up Call' of Climate Emergency as Historic Cyclone Hits Still Reeling Mozambique

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'A Model of Hope for the World': 25 Years After Rwandan Genocide, Film Shows Journey Toward Justice and Healing

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'Everything Is Destroyed': 90% of Mozambique Port City Wrecked by Tropical Cyclone Idai

Demanding End to Trump's Devastating Budget Cuts, US Aid Workers Protest First Lady's Photo-Op in Malawi

Fueled by Floods, Storms, and Drought Made Worse by Climate Crisis, Global Hunger Levels Rise for Third Straight Year

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With New Niger Drone Base, Trump's CIA Poised for Expanded African Footprint: NYT

South African Officials Among Many Denouncing Trump's "Disgusting" White Supremacist Talking Point on Land Reforms

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As Trump Rolls Back Barriers, Big-Game Hunters—Including Rich GOP Donors—Granted Dozens of Permits for Lion "Trophies"

After Calling Practice 'A Horror Show,' Trump Reverses Ban on Animal Trophy Imports

South African business leader Bonang Mohale, left, wrote an open letter urging World Economic Forum attendees who oppose President Donald Trump's reported comments about African countries, to walk out of his speech there on Friday.

To Protest Racist Comments and Policies, Walkout Planned for Trump's Davos Speech

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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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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

Amnesty International - USA

Cameroon: 70 Schoolchildren Taken in Mass Abduction Must Be Freed

Oil Change International

Report: Public Finance for Energy in Africa Focuses on Fossil Fuels, as Key Energy Access Solutions Are Left Behind

Amnesty International

UN Committee Tells Cameroon To Put An End To Torture By Security Forces In The Fight Against Boko Haram

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Timothy A. Wise

Big Ag Is a Major Obstacle to Combating the Climate Crisis

Emily Beament

Trade in Giraffe Products to be Regulated

Tom Matthews

Heatwave: Think It’s Hot in Europe? The Human Body Is Already Close to Thermal Limits Elsewhere

Alison Bodine, Tamara Hansen

Imperialist Made Crisis of Migrants and Refugees

Timothy Wise

Agroecology as Innovation

Celina della Croce

98.3% of Ghana's Gold Remains in the Hands of Multinational Corporations

Léonce Ndikumana

Africa Must Raise Taxes to Better Fight Climate Change

Rebecca Gordon

Autocrats and Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa

Jonathan Cohen and Kavita Ramdas

Our First Amendment Rights Are Under Assault With the Global Gag Rule

Christian Addai-Poku and Michael Galant

Education Privatizers Have Gone Global. So Must We If We Want to Stop Them