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tanzania tanzanian inventor unveils locally made electric car tanzanian inventor masood kippanya
yesterday officially unveiled the country's first locally made electric car kipanya known
for his satirical cartoons say the electric car was his own creative idea which took him
11 months to complete the environmentally friendly electric car's brand name is kp motor which prides
itself as a light but functional vehicle that is good for the environment affordable and reliable
democratic republic of congo deadly violence in a national park allegedly funded by germany
rangers at the cahushi biega national park in the democratic republic of congo have been accused
of great violence including rape and murder of indigenous batwa people who are believed to be
descendants of the original rainforest inhabitants with the aim of driving them out of their home
known as the last reserve of the eastern lowland gorillas in the world the park has been a unesco
world heritage site since 1980 and largely founded by the german government expelled from their land
in 1976 six years after the park was established the battle community have only since experienced
conflict and violence ngos have documented that since 2019 there have been targeted attacks on
the batwa houses burned to the ground gang rapes and killings according to witnesses the alleged
perpetrators of these atrocities are the park rangers and congolese soldiers and it's greatly
believed that the systematic terror campaign that is chasing the original inhabitants out of their
land is allegedly financed by germany aid funds the most important donor to the national park is
the german government on behalf of the german federal ministry for economic cooperation and
development and in close cooperation with the german corporation for international cooperation
the credit institute for reconstruction is financing projects in six nature reserves
in congo one of them is in the cajbegan national park since 2008 a total of 72
million has been dispersed according to minority rights group donors have been informed about the
violent attacks against the battle in 2019 but nothing has been done by the national government
to address and battle the situation madagascar madagascar freezes a price of essential products
in response to the sorrowing prices of certain commodities the malagasky government has now
frozen the prices of several essential products such as sugar flour rice oil gas and cement the
products mostly imported will now be available at lower rates in order to curb the price hike
the covered 19 crisis and now the war in ukraine posed great difficulties for transit workers the
prices of fuel but also the basic necessities are soaring on the stock markets the fao
food and agriculture organization of the united nations estimates that this inflation is only
just beginning it believes that soaring energy cost and therefore maritime freight costs will
cause the cost of food products to soar vulnerable countries dependent on exports and imports such as
madagascar are threatened with an unprecedented food crisis seashells seashells forges ahead in
fight against marine plastic national action plan under discussion seashells environment department
is developing a national action plan to identify key sources pathways hotspots and impacts of
plastic pollution including microplastics in the island nation key partners who will be involved
in the project met last week to share knowledge on marine litter and plastic pollution learn more
about action plans for a global perspective and discuss existing information gaps in seashells
the cumulative hazards and direct impact of marine plastics already contribute to an estimated 500
billion dollars to 2.5 billion dollars in marine ecoservices per year globally the action plan will
also enable the island nation to make better decisions when tackling the issues of plastic
waste management as it will have available data to help make better decisions as she added seashells
has put in place many measures to address the problem of marine litter these include the solid
waste management system regular beach cleaning by private contractors recycling programs for
pet plastic bottles and aluminum cans as well as a ban on the use of single-use plastic bags takeaway
boxes and plastic straws nigeria blasphemy cannon court sentenced atheists to 24 years in prison
kano state high court has sentenced an atheist mubarak bala to 24 years imprisonment after he
reportedly pleaded guilty on 18 count charge of blasphemy leveled against him by the karnaugh
state government mr bala who is the president of the humanist association of nigeria was arrested
at his home in kaduna state on april 28 2020 over his facebook post considered to be critical of
prophet muhammad in islam the post reportedly caused outrage among the people in many parts
of northern nigeria who are predominantly muslim mr bala was subsequently arrested following the
petition by a lawyer ss omar and other islamic clerics and transferred to kanu state he was
then held for two years without charges and with whereabouts unknown to his family and lawyer on
april 5th the suspect appeared before a judge farook lawan of kanu high court 4 and pleaded
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