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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

From his tiny shopfront pieced together with bamboo and sheets of corrugated iron, Sana Ullah is tuned in to the latest online e...

Presiden Mahmoud Abbas Tegur Keras Israel Langgar Kedaulatan Suriah, Siap Bantu Lebanon Hadapi Musibah

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</div><br></div><div>Presiden Palestina Mahmoud Abbas menegur Israel secara tidak langsung dalam suratnya kepada Presiden Bashar Al Assad.</div><div><br></div><div>Menurutnya, pelanggaran kedaulatan Israel kepada Suriah merupakan serangan kepada Suriah dan Palestina bersamaan.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel dalam beberapa bulan terakhir semakin sering memasuki udara Suriah dan membombardir Damaskus.</div><div><br></div><div>Berbagai serangan itu telah menewaskan korban sipil. (<b><u><a href="https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/mahmoud-abbas-sends-message-to-syrian-president/">Baca selanjutnya</a></u></b>)</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sementara itu Presiden Abbas juga mengungkapkan belasungkawa kepada Presiden Lebanon atas musibah ledakan di sebuah gudang pelabuhan di Beirut.</div><div><br></div><div>Pemerintahan Palestina disebut siap memberikan dukungan dan bantuan apapaun yang dibutuhkan Lebanon, sebagaimana dilaporkan Kantor Berita Pemerintah Palestina.</div><div><br></div><div><b><u><a href="http://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/118755">Baca selengkapnya</a></u></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Presiden Mahmoud Abbas Tegur Keras Israel Langgar Kedaulatan Suriah, Siap Bantu Lebanon Hadapi Musibah

Presiden Palestina Mahmoud Abbas menegur Israel secara tidak langsung dalam suratnya kepada Presiden Bashar Al Assad. Menurutnya...

@AjyalSpace Kembali Gugah Perhatian Generasi Muda Saudi untuk Eksplorasi Antariksa

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</div><br></div><div>Ajyal Space sebuah NGO bidang antariksa di Arab Saudi kembali melakukan sejumlah program untuk menggugah perhatian generasi muda Arab Saudi untuk menekuni ilmu antariksa.</div><div><br></div><div>Industri antariksa Arab Saudi terbilang yang prionir dalam mengirim astronot ke antariksa. Baru belakangan disamai oleh Uni Emirat Arab.</div><div><br></div><div>Walau begitu, Saudi belum termasuk negara yang berusaha mengembangkan roket antariksa sebagaimana Mesir, Irak, Suriah, Libya, Aljazair dan lain sebagainya.</div><div><br></div><div>Negara-negara Teluk sebenarnya bisa berkolaborasi dengan pengkhususan bidang, misalnya Irak mengembangkan roket antariksa bersama Yaman, Mesir atau Suriah, UAE dan Yordania mendalami pengembangan wahana dan satelit.</div><div><br></div><div>Qatar bisa kembangkan teleskop dan sjstem komunikasi apalagi sudah ada proyek eksoplanetnya. Kuwait, Sudan, Tunisia, Maroko bisa kembangkan bidang kain yang dirasa penting.</div><div><br></div><div><b><u><a href="https://twitter.com/AjyalSpace/status/1291065116927156226?s=19">Baca selengkapnya</a></u></b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

@AjyalSpace Kembali Gugah Perhatian Generasi Muda Saudi untuk Eksplorasi Antariksa

Ajyal Space sebuah NGO bidang antariksa di Arab Saudi kembali melakukan sejumlah program untuk menggugah perhatian generasi muda...

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?

Pirates command its coast. Traffic along the country's few pockmarked roads is often disrupted by militias and criminals. Of...