Libya orders 8 officials jailed in probe into deadly dam collapse

 Libya’s prosecutor general on Monday ordered the arrest of eight officials as part of his inquiry into the recent flood dis­aster which killed thousands, his office said. The flash flood, which witnesses... Read more »

 Al-Shabab militants killed in raid after truck bomb – Somalia

 The Somali government says its forces killed scores of al-Shabab militants just a day after a truck bomb killed at least 10 people in the central town of Beledweyne. Deputy Information Minister... Read more »

 There will be no confirmation that rich countries have met their $100 billion a year climate finance promise until 2025 at the earliest

That’s according to ministers from Canada and Germany, the two nations tasked with drawing up the “delivery plan” for belatedly meeting the pledge. In an open letter, Canada’s Steven Guilbeault and Germany’s... Read more »

 New report proposes victim-centered strategies for integrating Transitional Justice into the Sustainable Development Agenda

NEWYORK-In advance of this week’s pivotal 2023 SDG Summit, the Working Group on Transitional Justice and SDG16+ has released a new report underscoring the contribution of transitional justice to the advancement of... Read more »

 Rescue efforts

Rescue teams have arrived from Egypt, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Qatar, said Derna mayor al-Ghaithi “We actually need teams specialised in recovering bodies,” he said. “I fear that the... Read more »

 Climate finance: nearly US$3 trillion needed to implement Africa’s NDCs

NAIROBI (KENYA) –– This figure was discussed at the eleventh Conference on Climate Change and African Development (CCDA11) during a session on climate finance, moderated by Harsen Nyambe of the African Union... Read more »

 Death toll in Libya’s Derna flooding could reach 20,000: Mayor

Thousands remain missing as rescuers struggle to get to Derna, the city hardest hit by floods unleashed on Sunday by Storm Daniel. Residents of the devastated Libyan city of Derna desperately searched... Read more »

 Stop calling people ‘climate refugees’

 Despite the rejection of the term “climate refugee” by the United Nations refugee agency, and the International Organization on Migration, the term persists in popular media. On Wednesday, the phrase was even... Read more »

 ENEC signs MoU with ORLEN Synthos Green Energy to advance Small Modular Reactors

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and ORLEN Synthos Green Energy (OSGE) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the decarbonisation of the Polish and European power... Read more »

 From fatal allergies to heart attacks and cholera – the devastating health effects of global warming in Africa

The winds that whip the towns of the East­ern Cape in South Africa have the power to generate energy. But on a dry, hot day, those winds can gather up embers and... Read more »