Africa: Reforestation Pledge to Bring Major Change in #AfricaClimateCrisis Fight?: [allAfrica] Cape Town — More than 130 world leaders who gathered at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, have pledged to co-operate and reverse land degradation and forest loss by 2030 by signing the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: Funny but Fanciful – Little Evidence for Origin of the F Word and the Middle Finger: [Africa Check] “Well, now … here’s something I never knew before,” begins a Facebook post copied and shared in various forms thousands of times. It supposedly describes the origin of the middle-finger hand gesture and, by implication, the insult “fuck you”. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: The Youth Unemployment Crisis: [Independent (Kampala)] Africa has the world’s youngest population; with a median age of 19.7 years. Such a large youthful population might ordinarily symbolise an ample and energetic workforce, a boon for the development prospects of any region. But the dire employment situation for young people across Africa continues to snuff out their potential. According to the African Development Bank, in 2015, one-third of Africa’s then 420 million young people between 15 and 35 years old were unemployed, another third were vulnerably empl – AllAfrica News: Africa
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