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Nigeria generates over 32 million tons of solid waste yearly. ...

According to the IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), conflict and violence led to 169,000 new displacements in 2020 and a total of 2,191,193 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were living in displacement as of August 2021. ...

On September 15 2020, the Zimbabwe government announced changes to the country’s agro-ecological boundaries, which had been in place since the 1960s. Agro-ecological zones are identified based on the “distribution of soil, land surface and climate”, says the United Nations’ Food and...

Nairobi City County generated an estimated 3 million tonnes and collected an estimated 1.6 million tonnes of solid waste in 2019. These numbers are provisional. ...

The area of Mount Kenya’s glaciers (ice masses) decreased by an estimated 44% from 2004 to 2016. If the glaciers continue to shrink at current rates, one estimate predicts their extinction before 2030. ...

Wildebeest were the most common (288,000) in Kenya’s rangelands, followed by zebras (106,500) and gazelles (103,900). ...

According to the 2018 American Community Survey one-year estimates, there were between 75,995 and 98,859 people of Kenyan ancestry living in the United States....

According to data from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), a total of 508,033 refugees and asylum seekers lived in Kenya as of 31 January 2021. ...

In 2018, Kenya had 22 national parks, 28 national reserves, five national sanctuaries and four forest reserves, according to the National Wildlife Strategy 2030, published by the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife. This made up 66,415 km2 – or 11.7% – of Kenya’s land area, which is 569,140 km2, ...