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For decades, African athletes have traveled all over the world to take part in the Olympic Games. Yet Africa itself has never hosted the games and some are asking what it would take for an Olympics to happen on African soil. VOA’s Mariama Diallo has this story.
Thanks to carbon emissions, our oceans are turning to acid. It’s dissolving the shells of oysters and attacking global shorelines - damaging ecosystems that suck more carbon dioxide from ocean waters than all the world’s vehicles spew into the air.
As the Taliban completed its rapid takeover of Afghanistan in recent days, they captured the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, 23 years after last seizing it and massacring several thousand of its inhabitants. Two women who survived that massacre spoke to VOA about the family members they lost.
Climate change is transforming the world’s shorelines as we speak. Animals and plants that can’t tolerate warmer water are fleeing to cooler areas. In Part Two of this series, Coast vs. Climate, VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias takes a first-hand look at how nature is struggling to heal.
About half of Nigerians, especially youth, are willing to leave the country for a better life, according to a July World Bank survey, an increase of nearly 20% since 2014. The report blames poor job opportunities and economic hardships, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.