Herds of hippos are at risk of dying due to a severe #Drought in #Botswana, which is home to one of the largest hippo populations. The rivers of the region have already dried-up, forcing hippos to congregate around the remaining muddy ponds.
Meanwhile in easthern Africa, countries like #Kenya, #Uganda and #Tanzania, have been battling against #Floods for months with hundreds killed and thousands displaced.
The placenta has always been seen as something mystical.
In #Australia, if it was believed that, if the mother had launched the afterbirth into the water, the baby would have been a good swimmer.
Batak¹ people from Sumatra, #Indonesia, buried it under the house; it was believed to be the newborn's sister or brother.
Similarly, Baganda² from #Uganda believed that the placenta was a doppelgänger of the child – this is similar to the #Irish (or #British, in general?) concept of fetch.³
In Makame Village in the Hoima region, Uganda, Wandera Wilson manages a nursery that produces an estimated 200,000 seedlings a year. He purchases seeds from the national forest authority as well as private collectors, depending on the type.
“We believe that a good tree is born from a good deed,” he says.
NEW: In rural Western Uganda, an ambitious collaboration between Ecosia, the Jane Goodall Institute, and local residents to grow 200,000 trees in the Budongo-Bugoma Corridor is reaping the rewards for people and wildlife.
Verfassungsgericht in Uganda weist Klage gegen Anti-LGBTQ-Gesetz ab
Es sieht lebenslange Haft bis hin zur Todesstrafe vor: ein Gesetz in Uganda, das "homosexuelle Handlungen" kriminalisiert. Menschenrechtler hatten dagegen geklagt - erfolglos. Das Verfassungsgericht wies ihren Antrag ab.
South of that area operated the German East Africa Company which existed from 28th March 1884 until becoming defunct in 1920 following the dissolution of German colonies after the first World War.
Hey folks, just a quick heads up that the fundraiser for the Ugandan #LGBTQ+ refugees in #Kakuma camp in #Kenya that I shared then quickly deleted was apparently a scam.
Thank you to those who alerted me and to the instance they were on for looking into it and suspending the account also.
Sunak’s flagship plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost £1.8m for each of the first 300 people the government deports to Kigali.
The overall cost is more than half a billion pounds, according to the figures released to the National Audit Office. Even if the UK sends nobody to the central African state, Sunak has signed up to pay £370m from the public purse over the five-year deal.
#AI#GenerativeAI#AITraining#GhostWork#Kenya#Uganda: "Magic is often used as a metaphor for complex technological processes and systems, and this is why in the marketing rhetoric of AI systems, magic has been such a powerful metaphor. We are told of its amazing, un-ending capabilities; its power to both save and ruin the world and of God like qualities just round the corner. It is a powerful metaphor, that is easy to get swept up. But a metaphor is all it is. AI is not untethered, immaterial magic. It is structurally reliant on a vast number of people providing a myriad of tasks in not so magical working conditions.
Everyone likes to believe in magic. But where AI is concerned, awe should be reserved for the workers performing the tasks behind the curtain. It is only because of them that the systems can do what they do. The least they deserve is basic minimum standards at work.
As Fairwork, we will be continuing our investigation into AI supply chains in the new year with new studies. We will be shifting our attention to business process outsourcing companies in Latin America with further support from the Global Partnership on AI. There is nothing inevitable about poor working conditions in the digital economy. Despite their claims to the contrary, companies have substantial control over the nature of the jobs that they provide. Fairwork’s aim is to hold them to account."