HARARE – The United Arab Emirates, host of COP28, is poised to lease millions of hectares of land across Africa in a bid to offset its pollution. A combined area the size of the UK is being leased to a company run by a member of Dubai’s royal family, in a series of deals that some have termed a “new scramble for Africa”. Under the proposals, some 25 million hectares of land in Zambia, Tanzania…
