Officials of the Ethiopian federal government and the rebel authorities of the Tigray region were discussing Monday in Nairobi the modalities of the disarmament of the rebel troops, provided for in the peace agreement signed on November 2.
As provided for in the agreement, the "commanders in chief" must Monday in Nairobi "discuss and work out the detailed modalities of its implementation, in particular the questions of disarmament", recalled in a press release the African Union (AU), mediator of the talks held in Pretoria for nine days.
The 27th United Nations Climate Conference opened this Sunday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, an opportunity to talk about the effects of global warming on the continent... Africa, which emits only 4% of the gases greenhouse effect, is bearing the full brunt of the consequences of rising temperatures: African countries are those which pollute the least and which suffer the most from the horrors of global warming.
For example, Saint Louis in Senegal is one of the cities most affected by rising sea levels. In 2018, the government launched a project to move people from neighborhoods at risk to a new city.
But more than four years later, the project has not yet emerged from the ground.
Reporting by Sam Bradpiece and Elimane Ndao.
The guest of this newspaper is Ndeye Marie Aïda Diguène, a Senegalese engineer specializing in civil engineering, who has developed an innovation in the construction of storage space in sustainable materials and fights to help farmers produce better crops.
Editor: Célia Caracena
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