Wow!: Argentinian city wins global prize for urban farming project
FABIO TEIXEIRA, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a two-decades old project has become a pillar of the the Argentinian city of Rosario’s climate adaptation efforts…
Updated: Three dead, 113 missing in Japan after heavy rains trigger landslides
Updated: 11.45pm (AEST)Tokyo, JapanReuters At least three people were found dead and more than 100 were missing after torrential rains triggered landslides in the central Japanese city of Atami over the weekend, a local official and media said on Monday. A person was confirmed dead, bringing the death toll to three with 113 people still […]
In Kenya, faith groups work to resettle youth returning from al-Shabaab
Nairobi, Kenya RNS In Kenya’s coastal region, interfaith efforts to slow down or end youth recruitment into the militant Islamist group al-Shabaab are gaining progress, with some recruits abandoning the extremist group’s training grounds in southern Somalia to return home. The group – al-Qaeda’s affiliate in East Africa – had stepped up secret recruitments in […]