Midwifery educator Duncan Shikuku will never forget the day in 2011 when a new mother was rushed into the hospital where he worked, carried by her family.“She was listless and bleeding. Within minutes, we had lost her,” Mr. Shikuku says. “No one should…

A two-day conference to highlight the key environmental role and value of the world’s rainforests got underway in Gabon Wednesday, backed by several leaders of tropical countries.”Forests potentially represent 20-30 percent of the solution to climate c…