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As well as tackling the immediate emergency, long-term solutions are needed to boost agricultural production and increase community resilience.
Kenya's gold mining industry creates harsh working conditions, environmental degradation and few local benefits.
While the Tanzanian government helps previous home-owners affected by the floods, many who lost everything face neglect.
The multi-billion dollar development project in Kenya could bring much-needed employment and infrastructure, but at what cost to the area's nature and culture?
A WFP school feeding officer explains the urgent challenges facing school meals programmes in Mali.
Developing Africa's vast sustainable energy resources could bring economic, social and environmental benefits.
Malek Triki, WFP spokesperson for West Africa, explains the severity and urgency of the food shortages for children in Chad.
Action must be taken immediately if millions of lives in the Sahel region are to be saved.
Despite troubling economic times, addressing climate change must be a global priority.
Hastily ratified in the final hours of COP17, the Durban Package will dictate the future of climate change efforts.
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