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The Sahel Alliance will hold its second general assembly in N'Djamena, Chad on Monday, 15 February 2021. The meeting will take place on the side-lines of a summit for the G5 Sahel countries— Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad—as well as France. The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) played an active role in the formation in July 2017 of the Alliance, an international cooperation platform to spur development and stability in the Sahel region. To foster closer synergy with development partners, the Sahel Alliance has invited the African Development Bank to lead a working group...

A call to increase the second homes council tax to double the standard rate have been submitted to Pembrokeshire County Council Lancashire’s roads will get a £10m funding boost, while £5m will be pumped into flood defences after Lancashire County Council set its budget for the year ahead. The capital investments were approved after being put forward by the ruling Conservative group on the authority, as political parties of all colours at County Hall vied for the public’s attention in the final budget before local elections due to take place in May. The Labour and Liberal Democrat ...

A woman stands outside a yurt in Ger District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. There is power plant nearby but the government says it aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Courtesy: CC BY-SA 4.0/Nathalie Daoust BHUBANESWAR, India, Jan 26 2021 (IPS) - Climate warming is believed to have taken place at some of the fastest rates in the world in Mongolia, raising the country’s average temperatures by 2.24°C between 1940 and 2015, with the last decade being the warmest of the past 76 years. In the Gobi Desert, the occurrence of dust storms increased from 18 to 57 days between 1960 to 2007, and in 2...

A woman stands outside a yurt in Ger District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. There is power plant nearby but the government says it aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Courtesy: CC BY-SA 4.0/Nathalie Daoust BHUBANESWAR, India, Jan 26 2021 (IPS) - Climate warming is believed to have taken place at some of the fastest rates in the world in Mongolia, raising the country’s average temperatures by 2.24°C between 1940 and 2015, with the last decade being the warmest of the past 76 years. In the Gobi Desert, the occurrence of dust storms increased from 18 to 57 days between 1960 to 2007, and in 2...

iHeritage project launched to employ cutting-edge technologies in tourism and cultural heritage By Bahaa Al Deen Al Nawas - Dec 23,2020 - Last updated at Dec 23,2020 The ICT Mediterranean platform for UNESCO cultural heritage (iHeritage) project was launched on Wednesday, funded by the ENI CBC MED programme of the European Union, to help Jordan promote tourism and archaeological sites digitally, starting with Petra (JT file photo) AMMAN — The ICT Mediterranean platform for UNESCO cultural heritage (iHeritage) project was launched on Wednesday, funded by the ENI CBC MED programme of the Euro...