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Nigeria’s urban sanitation challenge is increasingly becoming an economic and governance issue rather than simply a public health concern. The African Development Bank Group’s (AfDB) latest Nigeria Urban Sanitation Sector Diagnostic Report signals a strategic shift in how sanitation is being positioned within the country’s development agenda. Instead of focusing only on expanding toilets and…

The rainforests of the Congo Basin are the planet’s largest forested carbon sink: as these 3.3 million square kilometers (1.3 million square miles) of trees in Central Africa breathe in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, they turn it into leaves and bark and branches, helping to mitigate the effects of climate change. Yet a recently…