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Near adidas campus ly 80,000 forest fires have been detected in Brazil since the beginning of the year, a little over half in the Amazon region copy; GREENPEACE/AFP/File / Victor MORIYAMABiarritz, France, Aug 26  The G7 has agreed to spend 20 million euros  $22 million  on the Amazon, mainly to send fire-fighting aircraft to tackle the huge blazes engulfing many parts of the world   biggest rainforest, the presidents of France and Chile announced Monday.The G7 club  comprising Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States asics gel   has also agreed to support a medium-term reforestation plan which will be unveiled at the UN in September, France   Emmanuel Macron and Chile   Sebastian Pinera said at the G7 summit in southwest France.Brazil would have to agree to any reforestation plan, as would indigenous communities living in the Amazon.The initiative was announced after G7 leaders meeting in the resort of Biarritz held talks on the environment, focusing on the record number of fires destroying chunks of the Amazon.Macron had declared the situation in the Amazon region an international crisis and made it one of the summit   priorities.He has threatened to block a huge new trade deal between the EU and Latin America unless Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a climate change s yeezy ceptic, takes serious steps to protect the forest from logging and mining.We must respond to the c Lidt Delta state records 2 new cases of Covid-19
A National Conference af1  organised by Mali   military-dominated transition government has ended in Bamako by recommending a delay of the country   faltering political transition programme by between six months and five years.The Col Assimi Goita-led transition government had agreed an 18-month timetable with elections fixed for February 2022 following the August 2020 military coup.Mali has been suspended from ECOWAS, which also imposed sanctions on the military rulers after a second coup last May, with a threat to apply more pressure unless the Bamako government came up with a transition timetable for the planned February 2022 elections by 31 December 2021.But Col Goita   government n adidas samba og ow says it will only unveil a new timetable by January 2022 based on the recommendations of  airmax plus the National Conference.According to diplomatic sources, the Bamako government is expected to transmit the 46-page National Conference Report with the recommendations to the chair of ECOWAS Authority and Ghana   President Nana Akufo-Addo.While the suggestion of a five-year transition could be considered an extreme position, neither are elections in February 2022 realisable.ECOWAS might therefore have to settle for a delay of the Mali political transition programme within the range of 12 months.There is also the festering insecurity in Mali, especially in the central and northern regions, part of the larger Sahel area, from where France is currently drawing down on its military Operatio