DUBAI: Reclining in the middle of a dug-out canoe, slicing through a clump of reeds that gives way to a large open pond covered in lily pads, the wonder of the Okavango Delta truly becomes clear.
A mokoro ride is a staple of a visit to Botswana’s tourism crown jewel the place where the mighty Okavango River flows in from the Angolan highlands, splintering off across 15,000 square kilometers of African plains towards the Kalahari Desert.
Being punted along by a wiry villager from a neighboring village, who stands sentinel at the back of the canoe with a large pole, reminiscent of a Venetian gondolier, is a favored experience for international tourists, and the waterways are often full with foreign faces taking in the country’s famed wildlife. But not this year, of course.
An institute honoring an ancient kingdom
Royal Commission of AlUla’s Kingdom’s Institute set to become an international destination for the study of archaeology and conservation
Updated 15 min 41 sec ago
Rebecca Anne Proctor
April 29, 2021 23:48
DUBAI: To be located in AlUla amid the ruins of the ancient North Arabian Kingdom of Dadan and as if to bring back to life the dazzling past of this still enigmatic civilization, the recently announced Kingdom’s Institute, established under the auspices of the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), is marked to become AlUla’s global hub for archaeological and conservation research.
Its most prominent buildings are destined to be carved themselves into the mountains opposite the archaeological site of Dadan while the design of the remaining edifices will be inspired by the archaeological structures uncovered pertaining to the Dadan civilization.
Kistos set to complete Dutch deal in Q2: Austin
Apr 30, 2021 11:00:am
Summary Any other deals will have a tough act to follow in terms of production costs and carbon intensity, but there is a lot of running-room with Tulip.
by: William Powell
AIM-listed Kistos intends to complete its reverse takeover of Dutch producer Tulip Oil Netherlands following a vote at the shareholders meeting May 14, its non-executive chairman Andrew Austin told analysts April 30. He said that financing was lined up; he knew the l.
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MOUNT MERON, Israel: Dozens of people were killed in a stampede at a religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “heavy disaster.”
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews had thronged to the Galilee tomb of 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai for annual Lag B’Omer commemorations that include all-night prayer, mystical songs and dance.
The ecstatic crowds packed the Mount Meron slope in defiance of COVID-19 warnings by health officials. Witnesses said people were asphyxiated or trampled in a passageway, some going unnoticed until the PA system sounded an appeal to disperse.
UN report says Myanmar poverty could double from coup chaos
The UNDP said conditions could deteriorate by early 2022 to a level of poverty last seen in 2005
The Feb. 1 coup wrested power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi
Updated 30 April 2021
April 30, 2021 08:28
BANGKOK: Political turmoil and disruptions following the coup in Myanmar could undo years of progress and double the number of its people living in poverty to nearly half the population, a United Nations report said Friday.
The report by the UN Development Program, or UNDP, said 12 million people could fall into dire economic straits as businesses remain shuttered in a standoff between the junta and a mass civil disobedience movement.