'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
11 January 2019 (UN Environment)* — On a cool and cloudy January day in the Chinese coastal city of Xiamen, tens of thousands of men and women pounded the streets in the first IAAF Gold Label road race of 2019. But this was a competition with a difference — heavy on sustainability, light on single-use plastics and the first international marathon to join UN Environment’s Clean Seas campaign.
Photo from UN Environment.
— World first expedition in a boat made from plastic waste and flipflops.
— 6 stops along the African coastline to inspire communities on how to repurpose their own plastic waste, and promote UN Environment Clean Seas Campaign.
— Only 9% of the 9 billion tonnes of plastic the world has ever produced has been recycled.
Photo from UN Environment.
11 January 2019 (UN Environment)* — A traditional dhow sailing boat made entirely from plastic trash collected from Kenya’s beaches and towns will make its maiden voyage later this month from Lamu in Kenya to Zanzibar in Tanzania – a 500-kilometre expedition stopping at communities along the way to change mindsets about plastic waste.
10 January 2019 — After escaping from two years of captivity at the hands of Mai Mai rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Bertine Bahige was relieved to end up in a UN refugee agency (UNHCR) camp, in faraway Mozambique.*
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