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Put hubris and begging bowl aside at COP28

The ongoing COP28 meeting in Dubai. [Xinhua]

President Samia Suluhu may have stirred the hornets when she told African nations point-blank to end the dependency syndrome and start up their own form of climate financing.

The Tanzanian leader, speaking during an East Africa Community panel on climate and food security a few days ago, was categorical that a special fund will hasten action and avert exponential costs of climate shocks.

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