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Giant Puppet Animals Complete 20,000km Climate Journey

Giant Puppet Animals Complete 20,000km Climate Journey

Africa-Press - Lesotho. A remarkable climate change awareness journey has come to an end as The Herds — a group of life-sized puppet animals...
Unhcr Bets on Ai to Ease Refugee Case Backlogs

Unhcr Bets on Ai to Ease Refugee Case Backlogs

Africa-Press - Lesotho. The UN Refugee Agency is developing a new AI project to detect bottlenecks slowing down refugee status determination workflows and design...
Great Barrier Reef Sees Largest Coral Loss in 39 Years

Great Barrier Reef Sees Largest Coral Loss in 39 Years

Africa-Press - Lesotho. The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades...
Rihanna Fund to Support Women-Led Climate Startups Africa

Rihanna Fund to Support Women-Led Climate Startups Africa

Africa-Press - Lesotho. Gather Ventures, an impact investment firm founded by Kenyan-born Jo Opot, has launched a climate-focused fund dedicated to supporting women-led startups...
Final push for global plastics treaty in Geneva

Final push for global plastics treaty in Geneva

Africa-Press - Lesotho. Nations gather in Geneva Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects...
Pope Leo XIV Expresses Pain Over DRC Worshippers' Deaths

Pope Leo XIV Expresses Pain Over DRC Worshippers’ Deaths

Africa-Press - Lesotho. Pope Leo XIV has expressed his sorrow at Sunday’s attack on Christian worshippers in the DRC by an affiliate of the...
KMM, PRINCESS SENATE TO PLAY ON SOUTHERN REGION

KMM, PRINCESS SENATE TO PLAY ON SOUTHERN REGION

Africa-Press - Lesotho. The Founder of Karabo, Mekhoa le Meetlo Cultural Association ( KMM) says her association together with Princess Senate Mohato Seeiso will...
Youth Activists Praise UN Court Climate Change Ruling

Youth Activists Praise UN Court Climate Change Ruling

Africa-Press - Lesotho. Youth climate change activists celebrated on Wednesday as the United Nations' highest court issued a significant advisory opinion stating that countries...
World's Oldest Climate Fund Targets Wildlife Bonds in Africa

World’s Oldest Climate Fund Targets Wildlife Bonds in Africa

Africa-Press - Lesotho. The world’s oldest multilateral climate fund, the Global Environment Facility, is planning a new wave of wildlife conservation bonds in a...
Funding Carbon Credits for Africa's Cooking Plan

Funding Carbon Credits for Africa’s Cooking Plan

Africa-Press - Lesotho. Hundreds of millions of dollars poured into Africa over the past year, with more expected, as part of an effort to...