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A series of papers on nuclear energy written by an international team of experts - published by the Johannesburg Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Africa is the continent that will be hit hardest by climate change. Unpredictable rains and floods, prolonged droughts, subsequent crop failures, and rapid desertification have already begun to change the face of our continent. Africa’s poor will be particularly hit by rising temperatures.

Heinrich Böll was a man who did not miss much, and whose short fiction, his Kurzgeschichten and his Erzählungen, are snapshots, colourful vignettes of the life and the people and the peculiar German world of his generation. But there were a few subjects that he was fixated upon. The latter would include trains and train stations, war and "the war", and then cigarettes.