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  1. Africa Now Bigger In World Map. 164 Countries Backed Resolution, US Opposed

    The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent…
    #Europe #EU #Africancontinent #EqualEarthprojection #European #UNGeneralAssembly #USopposition #worldmaprevision
    europesays.com/europe/131116/

  2. "AMY GOODMAN: It’s one of the largest oil corporations in the world, #ADNOC, the #AbuDhabiNationalOilCorporation, #SultanAlJaber, who is the head of this COP.

    "NNIMMO BASSEY: Yes. And, you know, we’ve heard so many things going on. And with the #FossilFuel industry being so prominent here, with bankers crawling the spaces of the COP, we’re seeing a lot of trade discussions. And, you know, this breaks my heart when I look at the way African negotiators or policymakers, the politicians, are bending back and accepting whatever is being thrown at them by the — through those who are investing in #CarbonOffsetting or #CarbonTrading mechanisms. We’re seeing a sellout of #AfricanContinent.

    "And we know the implications for this. One, it means once you sell out a territory for a period of time, you’ve lost #sovereignty, so to speak, over that place, over that #forest, over that community, over that territory. And then it means negatively — negative impact on communities who live in the area that we are selling out. We’re talking about millions of hectares being mapped out to be sold for #CarbonCredit generative facilities. And, you know, some of this means #reforestation or forestation. It means clearing the land and planting new trees. Now, that itself emits, releases a lot of carbon from the soil. And then, of course, these #NewTrees are #monocultures, and they don’t — they are not as efficient #CarbonSinks as #NaturalForests. And so we’re seeing losses in every dimension."

    #Africa #COP28 #EnvironmentalRacism
    #Greenwashing #ClimateActivism #CorporateColonialism

  3. @wolfgangcramer Obviously a "good question"!
    Who knows how many #MastodonInstances are physically on the #AfricanContinent? @estebanmoro may know?
    Support for #MastodonInAfrica would help a lot for global #MastodonScience!

  4. Twitter’s trials and tribulations in #Africa

    "Twitter’s 1.5 year long foray into building an Africa team, ended with humiliating dismissals of half the team, only days into their move into a physical location in Accra."

    qz.com/emails/africa-weekly-br

    So, let's invite our friends, colleagues, and communities from the #AfricanContinent to engage here at #MastodonInAfrica #Mastodon

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