Efforts to improve the lives of impoverished farmers in two of the world’s biggest cocoa-producing countries could mean chocolate lovers pay more for Lindt and… Read More »Africa’s Top Cocoa Producers Go Ahead with Price Increase
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A week ago, Josephine Wambua spent her days stitching gardening clothes. This week, the factory where she works transformed into an all-out effort to make… Read More »Kenyan Clothing Factory Turns to Masks Overnight
Lockdowns imposed to curb the coronavirus’ spread have put millions of women in Africa, Asia and elsewhere out of reach of birth control and other… Read More »How COVID-19 has Affected the African Woman’s Choices
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The nightingale makes an epic journey from sub-Saharan Africa to breed in Europe each summer but there are barely 7,000 nesting pairs left in England.… Read More »The African Nightingale’s Journey Has Become Longer than it Should
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