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 ... ....
The strict ID checks are there to make sure they don’t work excessive overtime ...It’s his job to make sure that more time is spent making phones rather than wasting it on unproductive distractions, like roll calls and ID checks ... In the center is a plaza with a firehouse, police station and post office ... One employee, who helped workers access the automated information stations, showed her base salary was 2,020 yuan....
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The Glasgow Subway is to close for about four weeks in the summer while modernisation work is carried out. Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) said all services would be suspended from 2 July ... It will follow the subway route, with additional direct services to the city centre from key stations ... He added ... It is currently undergoing a £288m modernisation plan to upgrade or replace trains, signalling, platforms and stations ... ....
Motorists planning a Bank Holiday trip may want to think carefully about which motorway service stations they use after analysis found 10 locations have food outlets failing to achieve "good" hygiene standards in their most recent tests ... A spokesman for Welcome Break, which owns South Mimms and Fleet services, said food hygiene is of "paramount importance" at its service stations....
Toba Tek Singh. April 24, 2016. The sons on Muslims landlords of Chak Number291 GB in jurisdiction of RajanaPolicestation entered in house of a Christian employed in Pakistan Army at midnight climbing walls and tied his wife on bed and gang raped her on gunpoint ... ....
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has accused South Korea, Japan and Germany of short-changing the United States for the cost of being safeguarded by American troops and argued that he would negotiate better deals if commander in chief. But defense officials and military experts say the United States is saving money in many cases by stationing troops overseas and having host countries pick up a lot of the tab ... ....
Brazil's prosecutor general, Rodrigo Janot, said Saturday he was presenting two more corruption charges at the Supreme Court against President of the Chamber of Deputies, EduardoCunha. "One charge has been received by the STF, a second is currently being tried and, if I remember correctly, six more charges are open against him, all for different illegal acts," said Janot to the Globonews TV station... ....
For a child growing up in Lagos, Sundays began on Saturdays. We would iron our clothes, shine our shoes and cook for hours - all in preparation for that memorable work-free day It was the day when the streets were blissfully empty; the traffic jams disappeared and the petrol stations were deserted ... ....