"A three-day workshop on EC-ACP Capacity Building Project on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), opens today ... Dr. Abebe Haile Gabriel, Acting Director of REA, underscored that “despite Africa’s riches in natural resources, it is unfortunately the most vulnerable region with the least capacity to adapt to environmental challenges like, climate change, land degradation and desertification, pollution due to hazardous chemicals contamination and emission”." (Quoted from paper)