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Lusaka, Zambia, May 27, 2016 – Members of the Partnership on Illicit Finance (PIF) met alongside the African Development Bank at the Bank’s Annual Meetings in Lusaka, Zambia, to publish national action plans to combat illicit finance, review member countries’ priorities for addressing illicit finance stemming from corruption and other
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Lusaka, Zambia, May 27, 2016 – In Lusaka during this week’s African Development Bank (AfDB) 2016 Annual Meetings, the Bank and the Earth Journalism Network (EJN), environmental program of the media development NGO Internews, hosted a Journalist Training Program for a selected group of African journalists. With the Annual Meetings
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Lusaka, Zambia, May 26, 2016 – The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has pledged the Bank’s support to African Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), noting that its advocacy has become critical in the light of the Bank’s accountability and transparency culture. “Civil society has to
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UNEP reports shed light on how countries are using different tools to shift to low-carbon, resource-efficient economies that achieve sustainable development
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Bonn, Germany - United Nations climate change negotiations today concluded their first session since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December last year, including the first session of a new body called the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) tasked with carrying out activities related to
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Dozens of detainees held in dire conditions in poorly ventilated metal shipping containers, fed only once or twice a week and given insufficient drinking water are at risk of death, warned Amnesty International today. According to information obtained by the organisation, these conditions have apparently resulted in the deaths of
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May 26, Bonn, Germany - Expert observers from Climate Action Network have responded to two weeks of UN climate negotiations as they draw to a close today. Civil society reflected on progress during the session and also on what needs to happen over the coming months, ahead of COP 22
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On last night’s episode of The Stream on Al Jazeera, author Ben Rawlence criticised the Kenyan government’s recently repeated threat to close Dadaab, the word’s largest refugee complex. Rawlence is the author of City of Thorns: Nine Lives in The World’s Largest Refugee Camp, praised by
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BONN, GERMANY, 26 May 2016 - On the final day of the climate talks in Bonn, Germany, leaders of key negotiating blocs joined in call for global action on renewable energy and energy efficiency at COP22 in Marrakech later this year. The Chairs of these groups, representing over 90 countries,
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Lusaka, Zambia, May 26, 2016 – On Thursday, May 26, 2016 the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and the Government of the Republic of Cameroon signed an agreement under which the Global Environment Facility (GEF) will provide a grant of US $1,726,484 to support environmental adaptation of the Central
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Lusaka, Zambia, May 25, 2016 – The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, and the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Nancy Lee, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on future collaboration on the sidelines of the AfDB’s Annual Meetings in Lusaka, Zambia. Speaking
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May 24, Bonn, Germany - Today expert observers from Climate Action Network, at the UN climate negotiations, explained how international fora outside the UNFCCC can get in-line with the goals accepted by 196 countries in the Paris climate agreement. They discussed the ramifications for the Montreal Protocol, the International Civil