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    Reporting social impact trends from the African Diaspora Investment Symposium (20 - 22 March)

    San Jose, United States of America Finance, Politics, Current Affairs, Technology, Natural Disasters, Medical, Investigative Reporting, Social, Cultural, Climate Change 30 Mar 2024

    ACTIVATE WITH AFRICA: CLIMATE CHANGE, CONNECTIONS, AND ACTION Book me for live correspondence and news analysis on the sidelines of the 2024 African Diaspora Investment Symposium (ADIS). The 2024 ADIS theme speaks to how countries can improve the continent’s infrastructure, boost markets, and... Read more

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    Urban transport in Ghana has not learned to serve people with physical disabilities

    Accra, Ghana Social 01 May 2024

    About 1 million of Ghana’s 30 million population has a physical challenge. Many of such people have been left with the most difficult option possible when it comes to navigating the increasingly more congested urban centres. Sidewalks are cluttered with hawkers in some parts or poorly maintained... Read more

  • Unravelling Liberia’s Fishing Paradox: Resurgence of Rubber Nets and Its Implications for Sustainable Fishing

    Monrovia, Liberia Investigative Reporting 20 May 2024

    An investigative report that sheds light on the concerning issues of Liberia's fishermen reverting to the use of rubber nets, despite the government's 2021 initiative of providing free thread nets to promote sustainable fishing practices. This project examines the underlying reasons behind this... Read more

  • MITIGATING DROUGHT IMPACT: KENYAN LIVESTOCK FARMERS TRANSITION TO SILAGE PRODUCTION

    Narok, Kenya Business, Technology, Science & Environment, Climate Change 31 Aug 2024

    Parts of the Eastern Horn of Africa have endured consecutive seasons of little to no rainfall over the past two years, resulting in poor harvests of staple crops, including maize, and severe repercussions for both people and livestock. In 2022, an extended drought wreaked havoc across the Eastern... Read more

  • Prespektif Tiga Aspek Tipologi Pembelajaran Anak Didik Perlu Kolaborasi

    Jawa Tengah, Indonesia Media Training, Research, Risk Analysis, Social, Breaking News 21 Oct 2024

    Dalam Tipologi pembelajaran yang sesuai dapat membantu peserta didik untuk dapat lebih mengerti, memahami dan menyerap hasil belajar siswa, terbagi Tipologi tiga (3) hal (aspek), yakni: 1. Visual (penglihatan) 2. Auditori (pendengaran) 3. Kinestetik (gerak & praktek) Dari hal tersebut,... Read more

  • Organic Fertilizers, Eritrea and Sub-Saharan Africa

    Asmara, Eritrea Science & Environment, Food & Drink, Research, Social 01 Nov 2024

    By the year 2000 and beyond, Sub-Saharan Africa's population is projected to grow at over 3% per year, while food production is projected to grow at 2% or less per year. Filling this gap and increasing food production will require intensive agriculture based on advanced technologies, which ... Read more

  • After COVID-19 crisis, a learning centre is using music therapy to heal at-risk street youths.

    Gulu, Uganda Investigative Reporting 02 Dec 2024

    When COVID-19 struck Uganda, a social worker a Professional dancer, and an ex-rebel abductee decided to start a social enterprise that uses music therapy, coupled with counseling sessions, to address mental health issues as well as vocational skills to uplift the economic well-being of the at-risk... Read more

  • Un raid américain tue des responsables de l’Etat islamique en Syrie

    Oakville, Canada Arts & Books 31 Dec 2024

    USCENTCOM Pour publication immédiate Le 11 décembre 2022 Numéro de version 20221211-09 Tampa, Florida- Le 11 décembre, à 2 h 57, heure locale, les forces du commandement central des États-Unis ont fait une descente d’hélicoptère dans l’est de la Syrie, tuant deux responsables de l’État... Read more

  • غارة أمريكية تقتل مسؤولي داعش في سوريا

    Oakville, Canada Breaking News 31 Dec 2024

    رقم الإصدار 20221211-09 للنشر الفوري USCENTCOM تامبا ، فلوريدا - نفذت قوات القيادة المركزية الأمريكية غارة ناجحة بطائرة هليكوبتر في شرق سوريا في الساعة 2:57 صباحًا بالتوقيت المحلي يوم 11 كانون الأول / ديسمبر ، مما أسفر عن مقتل اثنين من مسؤولي تنظيم الدولة الإسلامية ، بما في ذلك "أناس" ، وهو... Read more

  • الجزائر: التزوير الخطير واللامبالاة بماقايس التاريخ، والتشويش على شباب وأجيال أخرى قادمة

    Oakville, Canada Investigative Reporting 31 Dec 2024

    الجزائر: التزوير الخطير واللامبالاة بماقايس التاريخ، والتشويش على شباب وأجيال أخرى قادمة، والذين سوف يعرفون الحقائق حثما، وسوف ينجلي الظلم والظلام التاريخ لا يكذب ولكن حكام الجزائر يصنعون دولة بدون رسومات ولا مخطوطات ملموسة ، دولة وهمية بدون آثار أو حفريات او بقايا أثرية أو آي معالم حضرية او... Read more

  • Le Maroc et les Pays-Bas signent une "lettre d'intention"

    Oakville, Canada Breaking News 31 Dec 2024

    Le directeur général de la sécurité nationale et de la surveillance du territoire et le directeur de la police néerlandaise ont signé, mardi à Rabat, une "lettre d'intention" définissant les aspects et les formes de la coopération bilatérale dans divers domaines de sécurité d'intérêt commun. Cet... Read more

  • أبعاد خطيرة و إستراتيجية قد تكون عسكرية لزيارة لافروف الجزائر

    Oakville, Canada Investigative Reporting 31 Dec 2024

    قد تكون إشارة خطيرة من طرف بوتين، هذه الزيارة محتمل أن تكون لها دلالات وأبعاد على مستوى التحالفات الإقليمية، ويجب أخدها على محمل الجد لقراءة ما يدور داخل الكرملين، ومناورات تكتيكية لبوتين في إدارة قواعد الحرب الإستراتيجية مع أوكرانيا كما يجب التحضير لها من طرف الغرب والولايات المتحدة الأمريكية،... Read more

  • L'envoyé spécial de l'ONU Staffan de Mistura auprès du peuple sahraoui à Tindouf

    Oakville, Canada Investigative Reporting 31 Dec 2024

    Lors du témoignage des Sahraouis résidant dans les camps de Tindouf, il faut s'assurer que les agents de renseignement Algériens ne doivent ni s' intervenir, ni exercer de pression sur les Sahraouis de Tindouf. Depuis Longtemps l'Algérie contrôle le dossier et le destin des réfugiés des Sahraouis... Read more

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    Signs of Future Conflict in Eastern Equatoria

    Juba, South Sudan Politics 31 Jan 2025

    One may even say that the major current struggle that runs through South Sudan, Eastern Equatoria State in particular is a conflict that was imported since the 1820s where a series of civil wars started or fought in Eastern Equatoria. The Arab slavery, Mahdist, colonial period, Sudan Islamic rule,... Read more

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    Exmoor and the Peak District

    London, United Kingdom Travel 20 Feb 2025

    For decades I have been coming to these two of Britain’s most loved and unspoilt National Parks. My revisits never seem a repeat. It’s all about the innocence, the unspoilt landscape and the sense of yesteryear. Out on Exmoor there’s a sensory overload: the hills roll, the valleys swoop down and the... Read more

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    Florence

    London, United Kingdom Travel 20 Feb 2025

    No return visit is ever a repeat. After over twenty visits I now know with assurance the best tips and personal finds, the dos and the don’ts, to lend even to guidebooks as I share my affection for the churches, galleries, walks, markets, restaurants, hotels and shops. As an art historian I explore... Read more

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    Greece’s Kefalonia

    London, United Kingdom Travel 20 Feb 2025

    The restricting impact of Covid made me suddenly zealous for this large, expansive idyll of a Greek island which I visited three times to explore its entirety. It’s relatively unscathed by tourists, unlike neighbouring Corfu and Zante as the locals are healthily indifferent to the need for a... Read more

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    Istanbul

    London, United Kingdom Travel 20 Feb 2025

    Western fascination with the exoticism of this Ottoman world is whetted by the notion of calligraphy and kilims, eunuchs and seraglios, caravanserai and hammams, belly dancers and dervishes, concubines and harems, sultans and viziers, Turkish delights and smoking hookahs. It’s really the Bosphorus... Read more

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    Italian Lakes: Como and Garda

    London, United Kingdom Travel 20 Feb 2025

    Where better to listen to the sound of bobbing boats and rippling shores, watch the watercraft that are the varnished ‘rivas’ and witness what the Italians do best: ‘dolce far niente’, take pleasure in relaxing? With their imagination and eye the Italians really know how to make the most of often... Read more

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    London’s Top New Hotels

    London, United Kingdom Travel 20 Feb 2025

    Once again London is open to all and sundry and while we’ve all been locked down around the world, here in this prestigious city new ventures have been preparing to launch or relaunch with a vengeance and with some staggering results. I experience and review these nine new entrants: The Guardsman... Read more

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    Portugal’s Unsung Coast (Alentejo)

    London, United Kingdom Travel 20 Feb 2025

    The vast majority of Brits only know of the central Algarve with its busy beaches, golf courses and the white-washed walls of villa complexes. The extremities of the Algarve are wild and in their desolation is a sense of the infinite with long strands of beach and the full force of the Atlantic’s... Read more

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    Venice

    London, United Kingdom Travel 20 Feb 2025

    I am passionate about Venice having been there over twenty times and am keen to tell tourists how to avoid their own kind and how best to enjoy the city away from the ‘yellow line’ from the station via the Rialto to St. Marco as well as to vary the expanse to escape claustrophobia. For example,... Read more

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    Costa Rica

    London, United Kingdom Travel 20 Feb 2025

    ‘Pura vida’ is the local expression of their life force. The landscape of Costa Rica and her biodiversity is simply magical: thick lush rainforests, with their dense foliage, uncrowded pristine beaches, steep mountains and majestic volcanoes and waterfalls, the perfect backdrop for the sheer wonder... Read more

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    Andalucia: Seville, Cordoba, Granada and Ronda

    London, United Kingdom Travel 25 Feb 2025

    Just picture undulating mountain slopes, cork and olive plantations, oaks and fir trees. Whitewashed villages with window grilles and narrow cobbled alleys. This is Andalucia whose very name conjures up an alluring sense of exoticism and adventure. The Islamic artistry, the bull-fighting and the... Read more

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