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‘In parks you only see dogs, never children’: can Bogotá adapt to its ageing population?

silverguide.site – With a lower fertility rate than Tokyo and the number of pensioners rapidly rising, Colombia’s capital is being forced to change the way it thinks about growing old…
‘In parks you only see dogs, never children’: can Bogotá adapt to its ageing population?
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A sun goddess, hundreds of devotees – and polluted water: the Nigerian festival threatened by gold mining

silverguide.site – Each year, people from across the world gather in a grove sacred to the Yoruba goddess Osun to be healed, conceive or realise their deepest wishes. But toxic lead, mercury and cyanide is leaching into the river…
A sun goddess, hundreds of devotees – and polluted water: the Nigerian festival threatened by gold mining
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Barclays faces complaint over backing for power plant near world’s largest mangrove forest

silverguide.site – Bangladeshi complainants allege Rampal power station’s pollution and climate risks threaten the Sunderbans, a world heritage site…
Barclays faces complaint over backing for power plant near world’s largest mangrove forest
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‘They take the water, the springs dry up’: fear as Guatemalan goldmine plan is revived

silverguide.site – After lying dormant for years, the Era Dorada project in Asunción Mita resumed this year and villagers say history is being repeated, despite promises of change…
‘They take the water, the springs dry up’: fear as Guatemalan goldmine plan is revived
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How a South African town cleaned up its polluted river using stones, wood and sand

silverguide.site – Scientists say system to treat contaminated wastewater offers a model for ensuring food security in a fast-warming climate…
How a South African town cleaned up its polluted river using stones, wood and sand
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Sweden ends aid to Liberia in a hammer blow to women’s rights and healthcare

silverguide.site – Sexual and reproductive services face an uncertain future as the country’s second-largest donor halts support worth hundreds of millions of pounds…
Sweden ends aid to Liberia in a hammer blow to women’s rights and healthcare
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Moringa lattes and tigernut kebabs: the young Ghanaians ‘taking back the power’ of their food

silverguide.site – In Ghana, a grassroots movement is championing nutritious, homegrown, climate-resilient produce, rather than western imports…
Moringa lattes and tigernut kebabs: the young Ghanaians ‘taking back the power’ of their food
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After 100 days of the deadliest Ebola outbreak, it can be stopped. Here’s how | Jean Kaseya and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

silverguide.site – Ebola is a disease that spreads through communities, so we need to listen to communities if we want to halt its spread…
After 100 days of the deadliest Ebola outbreak, it can be stopped. Here’s how | Jean Kaseya and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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Children make up half of mpox cases in Guinea-Bissau as epidemic spreads

silverguide.site – West African country reports 46 suspected cases in outbreak declared in July, amid fears virus may be spreading undetected…
Children make up half of mpox cases in Guinea-Bissau as epidemic spreads
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Ebola outbreak: five big questions

silverguide.site – On 23 August, it will be 100 days since the Bundibugyo strain was first reported. How did it became the DRC’s most deadly outbreak and what must be done to stop it becoming the world’s largest?…
Ebola outbreak: five big questions
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‘We now live without this violence’: the Colombian farmers giving up coca for palm oil

silverguide.site – Subsidies and a crackdown on armed groups are helping smallholders rebuild their lives, leaving behind decades of conflict and fear…
‘We now live without this violence’: the Colombian farmers giving up coca for palm oil
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Halting the march of the armyworm: fungus discovery offers hope to African farmers

silverguide.site – South African scientist’s breakthrough research shows soil fungus could be used in fight against devastating crop pest…
Halting the march of the armyworm: fungus discovery offers hope to African farmers
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Drowned the day her visa came through: the tragedy of a Moroccan footballer trying to reach Ceuta

silverguide.site – Struggling on her meagre pay, Faten Ben Omar El Azizi dreamed of reaching Europe. Then she joined thousands trying to reach a better life in Spain…
Drowned the day her visa came through: the tragedy of a Moroccan footballer trying to reach Ceuta
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‘Drops take seconds but change a life for ever’: the women saving India’s remotest people from polio

silverguide.site – Shameema and Tanzeela must trek for miles in summer heat to vaccinate children in Kashmir’s highlands as part of a vast national programme…
‘Drops take seconds but change a life for ever’: the women saving India’s remotest people from polio
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‘Reaching 50 is a success story’: how one trans woman survived HIV and stigma in Latin America

silverguide.site – Erika Castellanos has beaten the life expectancy of 35 for a transgender woman in the region, but warns aid cuts and a rollback in human rights risk reversing efforts to end Aids…
‘Reaching 50 is a success story’: how one trans woman survived HIV and stigma in Latin America
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‘Her face was beaten in’: how Taliban rule ushered in a new era of women being killed

silverguide.site – An investigation into 231 femicide cases highlights the dire situation in Afghanistan, where men are empowered to murder and face no punishment while the state covers up their crimes…
‘Her face was beaten in’: how Taliban rule ushered in a new era of women being killed
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‘They were told bikes were for men’: how Latin America’s city of cycling is breaking gender barriers

silverguide.site – With less than a third of cycling journeys taken by women, Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, is installing bike lanes, teaching cycling and making sure ‘stereotypes are left behind’…
‘They were told bikes were for men’: how Latin America’s city of cycling is breaking gender barriers
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‘I want the world to know my sister’s name’: friends and families of 17 aid workers killed in 2006 Muttur massacre demand justice

silverguide.site – Twenty years on, no one has been held accountable for the brutal killings of young Tamils working for a French NGO in Sri Lanka…
‘I want the world to know my sister’s name’: friends and families of 17 aid workers killed in 2006 Muttur massacre demand justice
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Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’

silverguide.site – Cardinal Pedro Barreto received death threats and harassment during his almost 20-year campaign against a US mining company’s operations in the Andes…
Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’
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‘Danger no longer only comes from the hitmen, but from the state’: the Honduran farmers labelled terrorists for protecting their land

silverguide.site – After another massacre of smallholders – who are subjected to violence from palm oil firms and drug traffickers – the country’s new Trump-backed government has criminalised community leaders…
‘Danger no longer only comes from the hitmen, but from the state’: the Honduran farmers labelled terrorists for protecting their land
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