Africa: Awareness of Climate Refugees Is Growing. Full Recognition Is Needed: [The Conversation Africa] As our planet warms, we’re experiencing more frequent and severe weather events, rising sea levels, prolonged droughts and altered ecosystems. These environmental shifts directly affect people’s livelihoods by destroying crops and depleting water sources. They make once-inhabitable areas uninhabitable. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: Ban Smoking, Vaping in School to Protect Young People, WHO Urges Countries: [Vanguard] With 9 of 10 smokers starting before the age of 18, the World Health Organisation, WHO, has called on countries to ban smoking and vaping in school to protect young people. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: Queer Film in Africa Is Rising – Even in Countries With the Harshest Anti-LGBTIQ+ Laws: [The Conversation Africa] A recent book, Queer Bodies in African Films, studies the growing LGBTIQ+ output from film-makers around the continent, from Morocco to South Africa. In the process it analyses what queerness is and means within the context of African countries. Its author, Gibson Ncube, is a lecturer and scholar who focuses his research on queerness in African cultural production – from literature to films. We asked him four questions. – AllAfrica News: Africa
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