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12 Apr
Louisiana is home to 25 percent of the US petrochemical industry and is the country's fourth-largest crude oil producer. As a result, it is one of the states with the highest levels of industrial pollution, with disastrous consequences for the health of its citizens.
8 Mar
Gunmen kidnapped dozens of pupils in northern Nigeria on Thursday (March 7), residents and parents of the missing children said, in what would be the biggest abduction targeting a school since 2021.
4 Mar
Many suburbs of the Senegalese capital Dakar suffer from high levels of poverty, crime and unemployment. Keur Massar is one such suburb. This vast, overpopulated area is the poorest zone in the Dakar region. The sense of abandonment felt by residents there has been growing for years, and now the country's presidential elections have been postponed indefinitely.
22 Feb
The intensifying conflict between the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) army and the M23 Tutsi-led rebels, allegedly backed by Rwanda, has disrupted supply lines to the eastern city of Goma, affecting over two million residents and displaced individuals.
20 Feb
The intensifying conflict between the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) army and the M23 Tutsi-led rebels, allegedly backed by Rwanda, has disrupted supply lines to the eastern city of Goma, affecting over two million residents and displaced individuals.
26 Jan
Over 900 residents were seeking temporary shelter on Tuesday after a landslide in China's Zhaotong city buried homes in brown mountain soil, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Wednesday (January 24).
2 Dec
A UN camp with no water for days, makeshift shelters in schools, and hospitals that are already overwhelmed... These are the conditions that residents from the northern part of the Gaza Strip find when they arrive in the south after fleeing the Israeli bombardment.
15 Sep 2023
These are not the best of times for landlords and residents in Naiyeju, Ajiboro, Salvation, Olalekan Onigbinde, and Ayelabowo in Afenifere Community Development Area (CDA) of Igando, Lagos, following outflow of effluents from Lagos State School of Nursing and the Igando General Hospital.
12 Sep 2023
About a quarter of Libya's eastern city of Derna was wiped out after dams burst in a storm, the administration in the area said on Tuesday, and the Red Cross said 10,000 people were feared to be missing across the country in floods.
21 Aug 2023
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20 Aug 2023
Firefighters are working to keep open the only highway out of Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, as wildfires approach. Canada currently has more than a thousand active fires.
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