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Small but Deadly Future Aircraft Carrier

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</div>The model of a future non-nuclear multirole aircraft carrier was presented for the first time at the Army-2018 forum in August this year. "The semi-catamaran design of the ship’s underwater part is the project’s key distinguishing feature," KSRC spokesperson was quoted as saying by TASS on Wednesday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The proposed project has no name yet. Normally catamarans have two parallel hulls and a superstructure platform connecting them. The proposed semi-catamaran hull will resemble a dovetail, bifurcating toward the stern.</div><div><br></div><div>The new design pattern’s main advantage was a large flight deck (as wide as that of heavy aircraft carriers) and smaller displacement. The flight deck area is a crucial factor for the number of planes the ship can carry, the spokesperson said.</div><div><br></div><div><b><u><a href="https://www.defenseworld.net/news/23461/Russian_Future_Semi_catamaran_Aircraft_Carrier_gets_New_Design_Concept#.YHF-0xgxV6E">Read more</a></u></b></div><div><br></div><div><b><u><a href="https://youtu.be/7Damhr3maD0">See video</a></u></b></div>

Small but Deadly Future Aircraft Carrier

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OIC Welcomes Initialing of Peace Agreement in Sudan

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</div>Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen, welcomed initialing in the South Sudan capital, Juba, of Sudan peace agreement.</div><div><br></div><div>Describing the deal as a historic breakthrough, he expressed hope that it will usher in a new era of stability and prosperity for all the people of the Sudan, stressing that the parties to the agreement have proven to the wider international community that the interest and security of their country is above all other considerations. He appealed to other parties to engage in earnest negotiations with the Transitional Government of Sudan (TGS) for a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in all Sudan.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr Al-Othaimeen also praised the government of South Sudan for their important role in mediating the peace talks, thanking regional and international partners for their overwhelming support throughout the process.</div><div><br></div><div>The OIC is fully committed to supporting the Sudan, the Secretary General emphasized, commending the country’s outstanding role in the OIC’s efforts to promote solidarity among Muslims and consolidate joint Islamic action.</div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="https://www.oic-oci.org/topic/?t_id=23798&t_ref=14155&lan=en">Read more</a></b></div>

OIC Welcomes Initialing of Peace Agreement in Sudan

Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen, welcomed initialing in the South Sud...

Rohingya, Solar Lights the Way Towards Sustainability

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</div>BRAC, the world’s largest NGO, partnered with Signify to distribute LifeLight solar lanterns to more than 46,000 Rohingya families in Bangladesh’s refugee camps – this will help improve quality of life by supporting basic needs.</div><div><br></div><div>“These clean solar powered lights will make the camps a much safer place at night, and are, therefore, making a much-needed contribution to the lives of people who are spending days in unimaginable difficulties,” said Asif Saleh, senior director of Strategy, Communication and Empowerment at BRAC and BRAC International.</div><div><br></div><div><b><u><a href="https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/08/06/solar-lights-way-towards-sustainability/">Read more</a></u></b></div>

Rohingya, Solar Lights the Way Towards Sustainability

BRAC, the world’s largest NGO, partnered with Signify to distribute LifeLight solar lanterns to more than 46,000 Rohingya famili...

Start-up: The Rohingya Entrepreneurs Eking out a Living in Refugee Camps

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</div>From his tiny shopfront pieced together with bamboo and sheets of corrugated iron, Sana Ullah is tuned in to the latest online entertainment trends sifting through the camps. The 22-year-old sells video clips downloaded from the internet – everything from pop music to Bollywood movies and even news – for the equivalent of five cents a piece.</div><div><br></div><div>The latest tune to climb his unofficial pop charts: “Baby”, the 2010 song by Justin Bieber.</div><div><br></div><div>Ullah built his shack nine months ago, along a main artery that cuts through the giant camp. It’s one of many shops and unofficial markets that sprung up as the refugee settlements grew.</div><div><br></div><div><b><u><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2019/04/29/Bangladesh-rohingya-entrepreneurs-eking-out-living-refugee-camps">Read more</a></u></b></div>

Start-up: The Rohingya Entrepreneurs Eking out a Living in Refugee Camps

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Work Begins at Kyrgyz Shekaftar Uranium Mining to Prevent Environmental Hazards

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</div>Work has started in Kyrgyzstan to overcome the legacy of uranium mining in Central Asia with a ground-breaking ceremony in Shekaftar, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced today. The Shekaftar mining complex includes three closed mines and eight mining-waste disposal areas that contain about 700,000 cubic metres of waste from mining operations.</div><div><br></div><div>Central Asia served as an important source for uranium in the former Soviet Union. Uranium was mined for over 50 years and uranium ore was also imported from other countries for processing. A large amount of radioactively contaminated material was placed in mining waste dumps and tailing sites. Most of the mines were closed by 1995 but very little remediation was done before or after the closure of the mining and milling operations. The contaminated material is a threat to the environment and the health of the population. The hazards include the possible pollution of ground and surface water in a key agricultural centre of the region.</div><div><br></div><div>At Shekaftar, near the border with Uzbekistan, dumps of waste rock, which is radioactive, are located around the village and next to a school, posing a risk to public health. Once a thriving community based on uranium mining, today the town has an unemployment rate of 70%, the EBRD noted.</div><div><br></div><div>"Despite the global disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, intense project preparations continued in recent months to deliver the start of the construction works on schedule," the EBRD said. The first remediation works at Shekaftar will focus on the closure of six shafts and the relocation of five waste-rock dumps to an existing dump at a more remote location.</div><div><br></div><div>The work is funded by the Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia (ERA), established and managed by the EBRD on behalf of the international donor community. Work on other sites in Kyrgyzstan is expected to begin soon. It will follow a Strategic Master Plan developed by a group of experts under the guidance of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The plan sets out a detailed blueprint for the environmental remediation of priority sites in the Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.</div><div><br></div><div>These three countries are currently in the scope of ERA, the latest nuclear decommissioning fund managed by the EBRD. To date, ERA has received support through contributions from the European Commission, Belgium, Switzerland, the USA, Norway and Lithuania.</div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Remediation-work-begins-at-Kyrgyz-legacy-uranium-s">Read more</a></b></div>

Work Begins at Kyrgyz Shekaftar Uranium Mining to Prevent Environmental Hazards

Work has started in Kyrgyzstan to overcome the legacy of uranium mining in Central Asia with a ground-breaking ceremony in Sheka...

Are You Waiting for Somalia Airshow?

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</div>Pirates command its coast. Traffic along the country's few pockmarked roads is often disrupted by militias and criminals. Of more than 22,000 km of roadway, only 2,608 km are paved.</div><div><br></div><div>And though Somalia's war-torn capital city, Mogadishu, has made small security improvements since the terrorist group al Shabaab was forced out about two years ago, anarchy still reigns. One of the organization's operatives managed to slam a bomb-packed vehicle into a peacekeeping convoy there on Friday, reportedly killing eight civilians. Al Shabaab claimed another life earlier last week, when it detonated an explosive in the city's marketplace. </div><div><br></div><div>But in the country's skies, high above a landscape torn by civil war, business is running more smoothly. According to the New York Times magazine, the Nairobi-headquartered Jubba Airways, "the unofficial national carrier of Somalia," is aggressively growing its fleet of leased Soviet Antonov propeller planes and old Boeing jets, and expanding its domestic and international flight routes. </div><div><br></div><div>The airline serves Somali business people with interests abroad and an increasing number of Somali expatriates lured back on the premise of declining volatility. "Road insecurity is bad for Somalia, but it's good for airlines," Abirahman Aden Ibrahim, a former deputy prime minister, told the Times. Jubba's managing director Abdullahi Warsame, who left his native country 25 years ago, flies from his home in Dubai to Mogadishu monthly.</div><div><br></div><div><b><u><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/why-does-a-country-with-few-roads-have-a-growing-airline-industry/277760/">Read more</a></u></b></div>

Are You Waiting for Somalia Airshow?

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Harhub, Start up Support and Incubation in Somaliland

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</div>The hub has about 9,800 square feet of space opposite Miiska Sarakiisha, which has a space for digital design school, private offices, tech-loaded co-working space and event venue, meeting rooms, canteen, free high speed internet, training rooms and an outdoor innovation garden and creative parks. The Hub’s members will be able to access all our facilities 24/7 access. The hub will offer the following services: </div><div><br></div><div>1. Start up support and incubation offices</div><div>Mentorship</div><div>2. Tech-loaded spaces for events</div><div>3. International events about innovation and entrepreneurship</div><div>4. Membership and free high speed internet</div><div>5. Acceleration programs for investment, mentorship, training, education, demos</div><div>Eco-system development.</div><div><br></div><div>The hub is also expected to host the following international entrepreneurial events to advance entrepreneurship in the country.</div><div><br></div><div><b><u><a href="https://www.genglobal.org/somalia/launching-first-innovation-hub-somaliland-harhub">Read more</a></u></b></div>

Harhub, Start up Support and Incubation in Somaliland

The hub has about 9,800 square feet of space opposite Miiska Sarakiisha, which has a space for digital design school, private of...

Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Message on Eid al-Adha

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</div>Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen, addresses a message of congratulations on Eid al-Adha to the leaders and citizens of the #OIC Member States and to the wider Muslim community. #EidAlAdha   #EidMubarak #Hajj #HajjMubarak https://t.co/mVYIXE4V4K<div><br></div><div><b><u><a href="https://twitter.com/OIC_OCI/status/1288907928662089730?s=19">See more</a></u></b></div>

Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Message on Eid al-Adha

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Syria Digital Lab: Unlocking the Potential of the Syrian Digital Space

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</div>With an aim to “create an effective digital ecosystem that identifies, connects, incubates, accelerates and sustains Syrian-led digital initiatives,” the idea for Syria Digital Lab (SDL) came into being in 2018 when co-founder Malik Al-Abdeh was trying to figure out ways to bring the people of Syria together and help them build up their lives after many years of conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>“I wanted to focus on youth, who were at risk of becoming a lost generation due to the disruption of their education,” Al-Abdeh says. “To me, it made perfect sense to focus on digital interventions, because of the obvious access issues and the dispersal of Syrians in the diaspora. Through digital means you can reach a massive number of young people, and offer them educational and training opportunities as a way of plugging them into the digital economy. In order to achieve this, I believe Syria needed a digital ecosystem to connect all players in the digital space. Through SDL, we aim to bring the private, public and NGO sectors together with Syrian digital innovators, creators, disruptors, and of course, entrepreneurs. We want to achieve a sustainable, highly-networked community of Syrian entrepreneurs who can realize an idea into a successful digital business.”</div><div><b><u><br></u></b></div><div><b><u><a href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/339043">Read more</a></u></b></div>

Syria Digital Lab: Unlocking the Potential of the Syrian Digital Space

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Refugee Scientists, The Yemeni Case

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</div>Two years ago, Eqbal Dauqan was going to work in the morning as usual. She's a biochemistry professor. And was driving on the freeway, when suddenly: "I felt something hit my car, but I didn't know what it was because I was driving very fast," she says.</div><div><br></div><div>Dauqan reached the parking lot. Got out of the car and looked at the door. What she saw left her speechless.</div><div><br></div><div>"A bullet hit the car, just on the door," she says.</div><div><br></div><div>The door had stopped the bullet. And Dauqan was OK. She has no idea where the bullet came from. But it turned out to be an ominous sign of what was to come.</div><div><b><u><br></u></b></div><div><b><u>Read more</u></b></div>

Refugee Scientists, The Yemeni Case

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Six Turkic Countries Set Up $500 Million Investment Fund

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</div>The Turkic Council, consisting of six Turkic countries, is looking to establish a $500 million Turkish Investment Fund as its initial step toward boosting economic cooperation between the member states.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 19px; letter-spacing: -0.57px;">Swap agreement negotiations between the central bank of the member states, namely Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, along with Turkmenistan, which is not a member state but attends all the council's meetings, and Hungary, a country that has observer status, have been initiated.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 19px; letter-spacing: -0.57px;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 19px; letter-spacing: -0.57px;">Source: <a href="https://www.dailysabah.com/business/economy/turkic-council-countries-eye-500m-investment-fund">https://www.dailysabah.com/business/economy/turkic-council-countries-eye-500m-investment-fund</a></p>

Six Turkic Countries Set Up $500 Million Investment Fund

The Turkic Council, consisting of six Turkic countries, is looking to establish a $500 million Turkish Investment Fund as its in...