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Hi, this is Michelle. A pro-Russian organisation in Geneva might soon find itself homeless.

The corporate sector is embracing the "nature positive" slogan though not always with honest intentions, and attacks by armed groups in Burkina Faso force Médecins sans Frontières to pause work.

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Michelle Langrand

22.10.2024


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The International Civil Defence Organisation in Parc Chuit, Lancy. (Guilhem Vellut/CC BY 2.0)

🏠The slow demise of a pro-Russian organisation in Geneva. The International Civil Defence Organisation, whose bank accounts have been closed due to its financial links to Russia, could see its lease terminated by the Lancy commune after 50 years of presence.

Tribune de Genève🔒 (FR)

🐝The new corporate green goal: being ‘nature positive’. Companies are starting to feel the impact of biodiversity loss on their activities. Biodiversity targets discussed this week in Colombia may offer a path for them to integrate measures to protect ecosystems, but it also opens the door to a wave of greenwashing initiatives.

Financial Times (EN)

🏥Charity MSF suspends operations in north Burkina city. The decision follows multiple attacks from Jihadist groups on health centres and MSF facilities in Djibo while authorities offer the humanitarian group no support.

AFP via Barron's (EN)

🦠WHO urges Rwanda to see off Marburg outbreak. Visiting the country, the health agency's head, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, applauded the fact that no cases of the deadly virus have been detected for six consecutive days while urging not to drop vigilance.

Voice of America (EN)

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