https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/africa-carriers-beat-americas-european-peers-in-traffic-growth-4512982
The traffic posted by African airlines rose 9.5 percent in December 2023, compared with the same month in 2022.
I am looking at Gaza and the lives whose loss we are witnessing every hour and thinking how this will directly shape the US election. The traditional US camps are pro-Israel as usual, and I don’t expect any of them to relent on that position else they lose the “numbers at the polls”.
We saw in 2020 how COVID response was constrained by the general election in the US. Even when it was clear why public policy should have saved more lives, the assumptions in Republican strategy limited clear action on the biological threat.
In 2024, we are faced with a similar scenario where clear decisions on saving lives and avoiding genocide in Gaza — and easily avoiding an unpredictable war — is constrained by the upcoming 2024 elections.
Fuel prices will blow up, inflation always lurks behind fuel prices, social dislocation, and perhaps more authoritarian rules emerging around the world as they justify increased (in)security measures to ward off terrorism.
We are staring at a dark phase.
https://apnews.com/article/africa-uganda-yoweri-museveni-east-africa-kampala-49ab87b92865b8d79e8a082238cb4535
Ugandan authorities on Tuesday brought criminal charges against an author critical of the government whose ongoing detention has sparked concern at home and abroad.
https://africanarguments.org/2021/11/creatures-of-the-deposed-connecting-sudans-rural-and-urban-struggles/
https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/6541/facing-ongoing-litigation-challenge-federal-gmo-food-labeling-regulations-to-go-into-effect-on-january-1
https://seedfreedom.info/global-movement-for-seed-freedom-our-resolve-our-commitment/
Navdanya International launched its global Seed Freedom Campaign in 2012 to bring to citizens’ attention the crucial role of seed in the battle to defend food sovereignty and food safety and help …
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/07/fermentation-and-daily-life.html
When modernity meets its end-point and creates a world where everything is sterile, controlled, and known, there will be little space for fermentation.
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/experts-raise-alarm-over-new-banana-disease-3650268
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/experts-raise-alarm-over-new-banana-disease-3650268
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/20-sudan-troops-killed-in-ethiopia-border-clash
At least 20 members of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have died during a clash with Ethiopian forces and militiamen, who reportedly ambushed them in the border area of El Fashaga El Soghra in El Gedaref. The SAF said in a statement that it inflicted “heavy losses of life” on Ethiopian troops and militiamen who attacked them.
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