15:30 A New Deal for Africa - Op-ed article by President Charles Michel, and more than 30 European and African leaders
In one year, the pandemic has halted a quarter-century of steady economic growth in Africa, disrupted value chains, and caused an unprecedented increase in inequality and poverty. As a result, the entire world is at risk, because the global economy could lose one of its future drivers of growth.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that we can no longer treat seemingly faraway crises as distant problems. What happens anywhere can affect people everywhere. That is why addressing the impact and legacy of the pandemic in Africa is so important.
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(Abebe’s concern and climate change)
Abebe, a 15-year-old boy, is concerned about his future. His family cultivates coffee in southern Ethiopia. Although his family can make a living by producing specialty coffee at the moment, their harvest continues to decrease year by year due to abnormal climate.
While Abebe began to plant trees around his village with neighbors to respond to climate change, he doubts whether it will be useful to the coffee production of his family.
Indeed, Arabica coffee is sensitive to temperature; while it grows well at temperature of 15-24, coffee beans become rotten at high temperature. According to a botanical institute, climate change will diminish the arable land for Arabica coffee by 80 percent in 2080. Moreover, if the global temperature rises 2 degrees more than the current level, Arabica coffee may become extinct.
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Paris, France â President Muhammadu Buhari has urged investors to explore vast opportunities for human and natural resources in Nigeria while assuring that fiscal policies would be more favourable, predictable and tilted towards creating a harmonious business environment.
The President gave the assurance at meetings he held with Chairman/CEO of Total, Patrick Pouyanne, Executive Vice President, AirBus, Silvere Delaunay, Chairman of the Board of a software company, Daussault Systems, Florence Verzelen, Chairman/CEO of General Engineering and Marketing of Telecommunications Operator, Francois-Regis Teze and Chairman/CEO, Donaflex Automotive, Dr Donatus Nwokoye, a very successful manufacturer.