With cascading crises – where one event triggers another – set to rise, international disaster risk reduction efforts are woefully underfunded. Global development is supported by. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. @swajones ...Last year, earthquakes, floods, heatwaves and landslides left (pdf). Yet the international community spends less than half of one per cent of the global aid budget on mitigating the risks posed by such hazards ... ....
Papa Wemba, a musician known around the world as the king of Congolese rumba, has died following a collapse on stage during a concert, officials said. He was 66. Culture MinisterBaudouin Banza Mukalay confirmed the musician’s death on Sunday, calling it a “great loss for the country and all of Africa.” ... He was taken to a nearby clinic, but couldn’t be resuscitated ... Keywords....
The country's opposition leaders and international civil society groups have already dismissed Sunday's vote as "not credible". PresidentTeodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo faces six mostly unknown opponents, with most of the opposition boycotting the poll ... Critics accuse the 73-year-old of failing to distribute the country's oil wealth to the population of about 700,000 ... In the last election in 2009, Obiang won 97 percent of the vote....
On the streets, there are rumours. At shops, people murmur to each other that there is a plague of earthquakes going around the world. Some are convinced that the quake is coming back to Nepal. "None of the tailors are back," says the local seamstress, explaining that her staff have left the city. "They're waiting for Baishakh 12," the Nepali date when the devastating quake shook Nepal last year ... READ MORE ... Lost and heartbroken ... READ MORE ... ....
Amid debate on the issue of entry of women in the age group of 10 to 50 into the Lord AyyappaTemple at Sabarimala, Chief MinisterOommen Chandy on Sunday made it clear that his government would not interfere in the customs and traditions of the hill shrine...shrine cannot be claimed as a right to manage religious affairs by its management....
The files pertaining to that brutal attack on the revered shrine of Sikhs need to be declassified and if there is any recording about it that too should be brought before the country as the people need to know the truth behind this ......
Steve Eisenstadt of Raleigh goes to a lot of concerts, probably scores of them per year. But his 2016 total might be down from years past, thanks to artists boycotting North Carolina over HouseBill 2... A firestorm of controversy greeted the bill’s passage ... Rather than cancel her June 4 show at Raleigh’sMemorialAuditorium, Lauper repurposed it as an anti-HB2 show with profits earmarked for efforts to overturn the law ... David Menconi ... ....
MELBOURNE and Richmond will contribute $10,000 each to the Shrine of Remembrance. The donation is in recognition of the important work the Shrine does and will help with resources and education, particularly for children. There are 60,000 school children who visit the Shrine annually and up to 80,000 are expected at the Dawn service on ANZAC Day ...http.//www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2016-04-24/melbourne-richmond-make-shrine-donation....
YoungOmani poet Sultan Ahmed Al Mahmodi with India's Ambassador to OmanIndraMani Pandey at a function held at the Embassy of Indiaauditorium to release the poem. Photo-Supplied Young Omani poet Sultan Ahmed Al Mahmodi with India's Ambassador to Oman Indra Mani Pandey at a function held at the Embassy of India auditorium to release the poem ... ....
Amid debate on the issue of entry of women in the age group of 10 to 50 in the Lord AyyappaTemple at Sabarimala, Chief MinisterOommen Chandy on Sunday made it clear that his government would not interfere in the customs and traditions of the hill shrine... Oommen Chandy5 held guilty for allowing 11-yr-old girl inside shrine at Sabarimala....
BHUBANESWAR ... The priests on Sunday staged a demonstration in front of the 12th centuryshrine and demanded the diamond be returned to the temple administration ... The temple was recipient of a huge amount of gold from the Sikh ruler ... The shrine priests, who gathered outside the temple under the aegis of Jagannath Sena, a religious outfit, took a dig at the state government for its lackadaisical attitude towards Kohinoor ... ....
Amid debate on the issue of entry of women in the age group of 10 to 50 in the Lord AyyappaTemple at Sabarimala, Chief MinisterOommen Chandy today made it clear that his government would not interfere in the customs and traditions of the hill shrine... in Sabarimala shrine cannot be claimed as a right to manage religious affairs by its management....
Amid debate on the issue of entry of women in the age group of 10 to 50 in the Lord AyyappaTemple at Sabarimala, Chief MinisterOommen Chandy on Sunday made it clear that his government would not interfere in the customs and traditions of the hill shrine... Sabarimala shrine cannot be claimed as a right to manage religious affairs by its management....
Pune. The Pune police handed over a notice to Kanhaiya Kumar at Urse toll naka on the Pune-Mumbai expressway on Sunday telling him to refrain from 'provocative speech' ... Earlier, the team was waiting for him at Lohegaon airport ... Four bouncers were manning the rear gates of the auditorium while six more were at the front gates ... Many had gathered at the front gates of the auditorium seeking entry ... ....