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Northeastern State’s Environment Minister Advocates for Solar Energy Investment to Combat Deforestation in Somalia

Klarionogy: Calling for a Bright Solution on Energy Shift in Somalia’s Northeastern State AXADLE, Somalia - Mohamed Abdirahman, the dude steering Northeastern State's Environment and Climate Change helm, is ringing alarm bells about their dangerous affair with wood fuel. A colossal 85% of their juice comes from good ol’ firewood and charcoal, leaving forests in tatters. Abdirahman passionately voiced, "Our current ways are razing our woods. Switching to solar is our ticket to save the trees and Northeastern State’s…

War victims: Yemen’s forests in danger as fuel

Obsessed with violence, engulfed in chaos for years, Yemen's problems may be growing even more and even entering an environmental crisis. Yemeni lumberjack Ali al-Emadi spends hours chopping down an acacia tree with an ax as his 12-year-old nephew helps split logs. In a war-torn country, al-Emadi must turn to logging in its northern al-Mahweet region to earn a living. An economic collapse has wiped out the agricultural and construction work for which he used to travel around the country. However, as…