Activism
Kenyan officials have announced that a beloved 100-year-old fig tree in Nairobi that was to be uprooted and moved for a new expressway will be saved and preserved as a national symbol of environmental conservation in the country.
Impact
New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has appointed a Māori woman as the country’s foreign minster for the first time in history.
Climate
Lego will start trialling the paper bags in 2021.
Impact
The law making child abuse illegal comes after Romina Ashrafi, a 14-year-old girl was allegedly beheaded by her father with a farming sickle.
Impact
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has introduced a ban on military-style assault weapons 12 days after the worst mass shooting in the country’s history that left 22 people dead.