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Kigali’s hit back at a ruling by judges at the UK’s court of appeal that found Rwanda not to be a safe third country. This undermines a plan by the British government to deport asylum seekers there.. Rwanda insists that it meets UN standards for the treatment of refugees and the UK’s already said that it will be appealing to the supreme court.. Tackling asylum claims have been a key policy promise of the UK’s Conservative govenrnment…
More than 40 million more dollars will go towards improving access to education to children in South sudan. It’s the world’s youngest country but ; between 2013 and 2020 a brutal civil war costs at least 400,000 lives and upended millions more..The conflict prevented generations of people from learning and addressing the fallout from that is an urgent priority.. this month a new drive has started to get at least 135,000 more kids into schools in a bid to reach young people worst affected by the crisis the head ofthe fund providing some of the 70 miilion dollars for the programme. Recently returned from South sudan and told us some of what she learned about the conflict’s impact on schooling..
In the battle against the climate crisis, one project stands out: the Great Green Wall aims to hold back the expansion of the Sahara desert, by planting a wall of trees stretching across the entire Sahel, from Djibouti, to Senegal.
The project was launched in 2007 and backed by a whopping 17 billion dollars in 2021. But the much-needed funds are still playing hard to get for those in desperate need on the ground. The requirements to fully benefit from the funds remain out of reach for many Sahel countries. As a result, Niger is turning to the private sector to get things moving.
