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Business / Economics

Top brands buy Amazon carbon credits from suspected timber laundering scam

An analysis of two carbon credit projects in the Brazilian Amazon has found that they may be connected to illegal timber laundering. Prior to the analysis, forest management plans had already been suspended in the areas over the same issue. The projects belong to Ricardo Stoppe Jr., known as the biggest individual seller of carbon credits in Brazil, who has made millions of dollars selling these credits to companies like […]

today22 May, 2024

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Africa

bird basketball roundup: Ghanaian manager takes charge of WNBA team, new tournament in Kenya

      By Silalei Shani, bird story agency   Ghanaian-American Ohemaa Nyanin has recently been named the General Manager of San Francisco-based club, Golden State Valkyries, a team playing in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Nyanin assumed office on May 13 making her the first GM of the recently formed team. Golden State Valkyries is the 13th franchise in the WNBA following the league’s first expansion since 2008. […]

today22 May, 2024

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Entertainment

Was Beethoven truly the greatest?

A portrait of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven in 1818. 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images     By Philip Ewell, Hunter College   On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria. On its 200th anniversary, much was made about this seminal achievement of a composer routinely touted as the greatest master who ever lived. In an essay for The New York Times, conductor […]

today22 May, 2024

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Science & Technology

TikTok law threatening a ban if the app isn’t sold raises First Amendment concerns

TikTok users worry about losing their social media platform, but First Amendment rights are on the line, too. AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey     By Anupam Chander, Georgetown University and Gautam Hans, Cornell University     TikTok, the short-video company with Chinese roots, did the most American thing possible on May 7, 2024: It sued the U.S. government, in the person of Attorney General Merrick Garland, in federal court. The suit claims […]

today22 May, 2024

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Africa

UK-Rwanda migrant deal challenges international protection law

    By Cristiano d'Orsi, University of Johannesburg     In late April 2024 the British parliament passed a law – the Safety of Rwanda Act – enabling it to transport migrants arriving in the UK to Rwanda. When the legislation was approved by parliament, there were 52,000 asylum seekers who could potentially be sent to Rwanda. The law has been condemned by a range of UN actors, human rights […]

today22 May, 2024

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Africa

Kenya is badly prepared for floods: four steps to reduce devastation and deaths

      By Augustine Kiptum, University of Sussex     Floods in Kenya in April/May 2024 led to the deaths of over 250 people and caused damage estimated at 4 billion Kenya shillings (US$35 million). Not for the first time, Kenya’s lack of preparedness was apparent as flooding rampaged through rural and urban landscapes. There was also confusion as to who would deal with the disaster – the national […]

today22 May, 2024

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South Africa

Drained but proud: how it felt to organise South Africa’s first democratic election in just 4 months

      By Kealeboga J Maphunye, University of South Africa     South Africa’s historic 27 April 1994 national election marked the end of more than three centuries of colonial and apartheid rule. The period leading to the election was one of heightened political tension, with opponents of change working hard to derail the process through deadly violence. Political scientist Kealeboga Maphunye asks Mandla Mchunu, first deputy secretary of […]

today22 May, 2024

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Africa

Massive African “Gigawatt” wind projects to dwarf existing facilities, as private power companies and “wheeling” take root

    By Conrad Onyango, bird story agency   Huge new wind power project under development in Egypt and Kenya will see independent power producers access national grids to sell power to private customers in other parts of the country, or region, accoding to a new report. "Wheeling" refers to the practice of allowing privately generated power to flow through the national grid to willing buyers in a seller-buyer model. […]

today21 May, 2024

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Africa

Why Nigerian companies topped Africa’s fastest growing list in a difficult year

      By Conrad Onyango, bird story agency     In early 2023, when Nigeria began rolling out its newly designed currency notes, the country was hit by a cash crisis. The reason? Nigeria’s apex bank had put a cap on the maximum amount of hard cash that individuals and corporations could withdraw as part of wider efforts to tame money laundering. While this scarcity of hard cash worsened […]

today21 May, 2024