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Plastics Linked to $1.5 Trillion in Annual Health Costs, Study Finds
This comes as world leaders have reconvened in Geneva this week to continue negotiations on the UN Global Plastics Treaty, which aims to establish the first legally binding international agreement to end plastic pollution across its entire lifecycle.
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- Health Care, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google Commits $37 Million to Power Africa’s AI Future
At the core of the new initiatives is the AI Community Center in Accra.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Development Fund Seeks Historic Shift to Tap Capital Markets
Currently prohibited by its charter from borrowing, the ADF aims to raise $5 billion every three years in “patient capital” to support Africa’s lowest-income economies.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Village Capital Appoints Ellen Brooks as Chief Executive Officer
Ellen will join Village Capital from the International Rescue Committee (IRC), where she was the Director of Innovative Finance.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Airtel Targets Network Expansion, Mobile Money in Safaricom Battle
Kenya’s second-largest telecoms company grew faster than its larger rival in the first four months of this year, but wants to ramp that pace up.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria Commits $538 Million to Agro-Industrial Zones, Unveils 10-Year Youth-Led Agricultural Plan
Shettima disclosed that Nigeria has already committed $538.05 million to the first phase of the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones programme.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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UN Report Finds United Nations Reports Are Not Widely Read
The U.N. system supported 27,000 meetings involving 240 bodies, and the U.N. secretariat produced 1,100 reports, a 20% increase since 1990.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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- Global
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Plastics Linked to $1.5 Trillion in Annual Health Costs, Study Finds
A new report published in The Lancet has found that plastics are responsible for more than $1.5trn in global health-related economic losses each year, affecting people from infancy to old age.
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- Health Care, WASH
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- Global