Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Atiak Sugar Factory in Amuru District is seeking additional government financing to install water pipelines from the River Nile to support irrigation for sustainable sugarcane cultivation and sugar production. This request comes after the government’s injection of 108 billion shillings in a supplementary budget …
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Skoura, Morocco | AFP | Dead palm trees lie on dry, yellowish earth near an abandoned adobe house in Morocco’s arid southeast, as drought threatens ancient oases. “I grew up in this oasis and I have seen it shrink,” says 53-year-old Mohamed El Houkari, who lives in Skoura, a rural oasis …
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Maiduguri, Nigeria | AFP | Maiduguri resident Ahmed Muhammed wanders through the rubble left behind as he recalls the outbreak of fighting in his city a decade ago that launched the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. “We heard shooting — badadadadadada — here, there, everywhere around us,” the 44-year-old railway …
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