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Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, pictured in Ottawa. The famous transcontinental road races, like the Paris-Dakar and the Budapest-Bamako rallies, have something in common with the race against climate change: they are gruelling, and they go through Africa. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY FARIS AHMED, MADAMOU GOITA

May 18, 2016

The famous transcontinental road races, like the Paris-Dakar and the Budapest-Bamako rallies, have something in common with the race against climate change: they are gruelling, and they go through Africa. The global effort to respond and adapt to climate change must also go through Africa: through ...

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