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Teenagers build head-turning furniture from surprising materials: 'A valuable resource'

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Sixteen-year-old Moses Ekadeli doesn't just see a stubborn thorn bush. He sees the next chair he'll build. In the dry heat of Turkana County in northern Kenya, Moses and dozens of other teens living in the Kakuma refugee camp are flipping an ecological threat into a tool for change. They're making head-turning furniture from a plant that most people want gone. The plant is mathenge, or Prosopis juliflora. It was introduced from South America in …Read Article

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After fleeing genocide in Sudan, she’s leading a movement for refugee women in Kenya - Prime Progress NG

Khaltom Abdalla Abakar was born in Fanganta, a village in Sudan’s West Darfur region. Her family lived in relative comfort. Her mother, a formidable businesswoman, owned three farms, a sawmill, and granaries stocked with sorghum and groundnuts. Her father, Hajj Abdalla, known affectionately as Gorombo, was the village leader. But, when Darfur descended into one of the century’s most devastating conflicts in the early 2000s, all of the family’s …Read Article

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