Afghan girls learn, code 'underground' to bypass Taliban curbs

Hundreds of Afghan girls and women are continuing to learn online and in hidden classrooms, despite Taliban restrictions on education

World needs $5 trillion in annual climate finance by 2030 for rapid action

From transport to agriculture and electricity, progress is lagging in all sectors on reducing planet-heating emissions at the pace required to limit global warming to 1.5C, the study finds

Brazil seeks to burnish its climate credentials as COP26 nears

With its president more politically isolated and under fire for high rates of Amazon deforestation, Brazil is looking for ways to rebrand itself at COP26

Slowdowns and shutdowns: Africans challenge internet restrictions

Telecommunications were interrupted in Sudan this week after the army seized power in a coup, the latest in a string of internet outages in African countries over the last year

World should shut nearly 3,000 coal plants to keep on climate track -study

The need to close nearly 1,000 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity would put the onus on China to accelerate its shift towards cleaner electricity

Climate change to displace tens of millions of East Africans by 2050 -World Bank

Rich nations promised to deliver $100 billion a year to poorer countries to help tackle impact of global warming, but funding will be delayed further COP26 president admitted

Biden likely to head to COP26 without a final U.S. climate deal

Biden's $1.5 trillion-$2 trillion spending plan aimed at curbing climate change and expanding the social safety net remained mired in intraparty squabbles on Wednesday

More victims complain of sexual abuse in Congo scandal - WHO expert

Some 83 aid workers, a quarter employed by the WHO, were involved in sexual coercion and abuse during DRC's 10th Ebola epidemic

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