India cracks down on youth protests as anger grows against Modi and election chief

Protesters shout slogans from a police vehicle after being detained during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi, India, Oct. 10. AP-Yonhap NEW DELHI — Indian authorities deployed a sweeping security crackdown across New Delhi and detained thousands of protesters Saturday as India’s youth “Cockroach” movement sought to…

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Why Ghana’s first Marine Protected Area still faces a $1.5 million question

Belize, the Philippines and Seychelles each answered the funding question by fixing a number into legislation, insulating their marine parks from the year-to-year uncertainty of national budgets or foreign aid decisions. Ghana, for now, is financing its flagship MPA the way Kenya and Tanzania finance theirs: through a legally sound but financially improvised mix of…

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