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The summer of 2024 has been one for the record books, but not for the reasons gardeners might hope. Across the south-east of England, a strange and unsettling phenomenon is unfolding: the landscape is beginning to look tired, parched, and, in some places, autumnal, even as the peak of the season is still weeks away. The relentless heatwaves and prolonged dry spells that have scorched the region are taking their toll, driving trees into a state of emergency. The result is a landscape in crisis, one where the natural rhythm of the seasons has been upended by the brutal reality…

In Mogadishu, a group of Somali journalists and social media creators recently gathered for a training session unlike any they had attended before. This was not a typical workshop on writing headlines, improving camera angles, or editing footage; it was the launch of the Peace Journalists programme, a specialised initiative supported by the Islamic Military Counter-Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC) and designed to equip media professionals with the tools to confront the digital propaganda machine of extremist groups. The programme, which is part of a broader partnership between Somalia and the Saudi Arabia-supported coalition, comes at a critical time for a country…

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