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Cameroon: Cameroon Officials Say Trees Planted in Refugee Camp Reduce Conflicts
VOA, 23 November 2023
Officials in northern Cameroon say conflicts over food, water and other resources have greatly declined due to the planting of about half-a-million trees in and around a refugee… Read more »
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Africa: From Darfur to Dubai - Former Refugee to Bring Voices of the Displaced to COP28
RFI, 25 November 2023
Emtithal Mahmoud, a Sudanese refugee, writer and activist, is preparing to attend the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai this month as part of her mission to raise up overlooked voices.… Read more »
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Cameroon: Cameroon's Indigenous Baka Sing to Save Their Vanishing Forest Home
RFI, 5 November 2023
Yaounde, Cameroon - In the south-eastern rainforests of Cameroon, the indigenous Baka people are seeing their habitat decimated by logging, farming, mining and construction. Where… Read more »
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Nigeria: COP28 - Kaduna Women Stage Street Rally for Climate Justice
Premium Times, 24 November 2023
The organisers of the Kaduna rally said the goal was to ask for climate justice for women and affirmative representation at COP28. Read more »
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Nigeria: COP28 - Akpabio Pledges to Help Nigeria Secure Climate Change Funds
Premium Times, 23 November 2023
Mr Akpabio says the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a global body of parliamentarians, whose executive committee he is a member, has a budget of $30 billion to fight climate… Read more »
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Africa: Health Needs to Be Front and Centre of National Plans to Fight Climate Change
WHO, 23 November 2023
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-28), WHO has published its "2023 review of health in nationally determined contributions and long-term strategies" highlighting the… Read more »
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Africa: Experts Urge Govts to Add Climate Action in Economic Management Models
New Times, 21 November 2023
African countries should incorporate climate action policies in their respective macroeconomic models as they continue to respond to multifaceted economic challenges, experts have… Read more »
Cameroon Says Refugee Trees Reduce Conflicts
Residents and officials in northern Cameroon, near the borders with Nigeria and Chad, have said clashes between refugees, displaced people and host communities over food and water have declined in the past year, mainly due to the new forest growing in their midst.
United Nations officials and rights groups visited the area to collect success stories on reforestation projects that also reduce climate shocks to share during the upcoming COP 28 climate conference.
The area is home to about 120,000 refugees from Nigeria, along with a number of internally displaced Cameroonians and returnees whose lives were uprooted by terrorist group Boko Haram. Ten years ago, UNHCR set up the Minawao refugee camp on about 630 hectares of land near the borders to house 15,000 refugees. But unending violence swelled the camp's population to 72,000, exerting pressure on natural resources.
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The 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) to the UNFCCC will be held from November 30 to December 12, 2023 in the United Arab Emirates.
