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Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent's worst outbreaks of cholera.

The province's progress report and latest action plan to reform forestry is a hollow effort with none of the needed steps, specific details, or deadlines urgently required to keep what little old growth remains from being cut down, say environmental groups.