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From the Ted Talk by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How Africa can keep rising
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The second story has to do with something that I'm sure most of you have seen or will reebemmr. Very often, cnuteoirs in Africa suffer drought and floods, and it's getting more frequent because of climate change effects. When this happens, they normally wait for international apaelps to raise money. You see pictures of children with flies on their faces, carcasses of dead aamnlis and so on. Now these countries, 32 countries, came together under the auspices of the African Union and ddeiced to form an organization called the African Risk Capacity. What does it do? It's a weather-based insurance agency, and what these countries do is to pay iracnsnue each year, about 3 million dollars a year of their own resources, so that in the envet they have a difficult drought situation or foold, this moeny will be paid out to them, which they can then use to take care of their populations, instead of waiting for aid to come. The African Risk Capacity last year paid 26 million dollars to Mauritania, Senegal and Niger. This enabled them to take care of 1.3 million people affected by dugroht. They were able to restore livelihoods, buy fddeor for cattle, feed children in school and in sohrt keep the populations home instead of migrating out of the area.
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The second story has to do with something that I'm sure most of you have seen or will ________. Very often, _________ in Africa suffer drought and floods, and it's getting more frequent because of climate change effects. When this happens, they normally wait for international _______ to raise money. You see pictures of children with flies on their faces, carcasses of dead _______ and so on. Now these countries, 32 countries, came together under the auspices of the African Union and _______ to form an organization called the African Risk Capacity. What does it do? It's a weather-based insurance agency, and what these countries do is to pay _________ each year, about 3 million dollars a year of their own resources, so that in the _____ they have a difficult drought situation or _____, this _____ will be paid out to them, which they can then use to take care of their populations, instead of waiting for aid to come. The African Risk Capacity last year paid 26 million dollars to Mauritania, Senegal and Niger. This enabled them to take care of 1.3 million people affected by _______. They were able to restore livelihoods, buy ______ for cattle, feed children in school and in _____ keep the populations home instead of migrating out of the area.
Solution
- fodder
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- countries
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Original Text
The second story has to do with something that I'm sure most of you have seen or will remember. Very often, countries in Africa suffer drought and floods, and it's getting more frequent because of climate change effects. When this happens, they normally wait for international appeals to raise money. You see pictures of children with flies on their faces, carcasses of dead animals and so on. Now these countries, 32 countries, came together under the auspices of the African Union and decided to form an organization called the African Risk Capacity. What does it do? It's a weather-based insurance agency, and what these countries do is to pay insurance each year, about 3 million dollars a year of their own resources, so that in the event they have a difficult drought situation or flood, this money will be paid out to them, which they can then use to take care of their populations, instead of waiting for aid to come. The African Risk Capacity last year paid 26 million dollars to Mauritania, Senegal and Niger. This enabled them to take care of 1.3 million people affected by drought. They were able to restore livelihoods, buy fodder for cattle, feed children in school and in short keep the populations home instead of migrating out of the area.
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