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for - adjacency - suffering - compassion - Minhyur RInpoche talk in South Africa - synchronicity - Mingyur Rinpoche's talk today on the intertwingled triplet of awareness, compassion and wisdom and the myriad ways in which we want to lessen suffering - If we look, these ways of mitigating suffering are everrywhere - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_GmQMZqtGU
one morning I had the most immense panic attack I've ever had and I just like saw red and just ran I legged it out of the retreat which is un it's unthinkable. you know, in a four-year retreat, you're not supposed to leave. But I jumped over the wall and tried to escape.
for - adjacency - synchronicity - intense retreat experience - Mingyur Rinpoche - I'm listening to Mingyur Rinpoche and there's some synchronicity that in the live talk, he is talking about the same thing as the monk in this interview - They both went into a multiyear retreat and suffered huge panic attacks - to - Youtube - Mingyur Rinpoche - Anytime Anywhere meditation - South Africa - https://hyp.is/coluBIvcEfCRpD_roJ5NsQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_GmQMZqtGU
for - Youtube - Buddhist teaching - Minhyur RInpoche South Africa 2025 - Anytime Anywhere meditation workshop
1968 – Fab 1 and Lady Penelope (in human form) appear at the Kilburn State Cinema to promote the Thunderbird 6 film
Against Your Skin * In the wilderness of Africa, Lady Penelope and my baby self bond together while Brains, Alan and Tin Tin play in the distance, and later when everyone goes to the lake to bathe, Lady Penelope and I join them for a nice, long, natural bath.
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Judicial Service Commission - composition - Constution s178 requires 23 members split between components with sep powers, being 10 from the legislature, 5 from the Executive, 3 from the Judiciary, and 5 from the Public. This split is a political one as it seems to follow no sensible basis.
the issue that he kept raising or he raised prominently is the issue of genocide.
for - white genocide - South Africa - Ramaphosa response to Trump
for - climate justice - Africa - article - The Conversation - Wealthy nations owe climate debt to Africa - funds that could help cities grow - author - Astrid R.N. Haas
It has so far shown little appetite for wide-ranging reforms of the Bretton Woods Institutions that cripple climate and development spending in the global south.
for - adjacency - remove Bretton Woods - for development in Africa - to - article - phenomenal world - Nairobi-Washington vision - https://hyp.is/VXcTDvgUEe-gqDM3RpIkzA/www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-view-from-nairobi-washington/
Europe should build its foreign policy on a coordinated response to the climate question.
for - post-colonial Africa Europe clean energy security - US-Europe fracture - opportunity - europe-africa development
Extreme heat affected a large portion of North Africa and the Sahel, potentially killing hundreds or thousands of people.
Heavy rainfall in East Africa caused severe flooding that killed hundreds and affected more than 700,000 people
Dekoloniale Berlin Africa Conference
for - decolonisation conference - Dekoloniale Berlin Africa Conference - source: human rights watch - Africans and People of African Descent Call on Europe to Reckon with Their Colonial Legacies - 2024 , Nov 18
for - decolonisation - colonialism - legacy of - 140 year anniversary of the dark milestone of the Berlin Africa conference which began a new cycle of horror and institutionalised plundering and dehumanisation of Africa - source: human rights watch - Africans and People of African Descent Call on Europe to Reckon with Their Colonial Legacies - 2024 , Nov 18
// - summary - Reading this story has reminded me of a Stop Reset Go / Deep Humanity / Tipping Point Festival project idea - cosmolocal bottom up movement that creates a community-to-community sister city coupling for development between communities of global / local North and global / local South
Clash of the Cartels: Unmasking the global drug kingpins stalking South Africa.
for - book - Clash of the Cartels: Unmasking the global drug kingpins stalking South Africa - Caryn Dolley - Columbia drug trafficking in South Africa
Why you don’t see it is because it’s subtle, very sophisticated and it is a massive business.
for - quote - organized crime in Cape Town
quote - organized crime in Cape Town - Andre Lincoln - Caryn Dolley - (see below) - Why you don’t see it is because it’s subtle, very sophisticated and it is a massive business. - How many restaurants and clubs on these famous streets are paying protection money to criminals? It's pretty startling - And what about construction shakedowns? 63 billion Rand of projects impacted in 2019 - https://hyp.is/Smjb3I5CEe-fXHsx-Sy8kQ/www.inclusivesociety.org.za/post/overview-of-the-construction-mafia-crisis-in-south-africa
In 2019, at least 183 infrastructure and construction projects worth more than R63-billion had been affected by the construction mafia.
for - stats - construction mafia impacts - South Africa - 2019 - R63 billion - Overview of the Construction Mafia Crisis in South Africa - Inclusive Society Institute - 2023
Interesting perspective as interpretation where Jack says at the moment the song says "Who made up words, who made up numbers? Who wrote the Bible, who wrote the Q'uran" it might not even be a call to reflect and think for yourself (although this is absolutely a recurring theme in the song) but maybe they are implying all the science traces back not to the West (Europe) but to the East (Egypt, Africa). This interpretation aligns with the album this song was produced in, which is about Africa.
Eine neue, grundlegende Studie zu Klima-Reparationen ergibt, dass die größten Fosssilkonzerne jählich mindestens 209 Milliarden Dollar als Reparationen an von ihnen besonders geschädigte Communities zahlen müssen. Dabei sind Schäden wie der Verlust von Menschenleben und Zerstörung der Biodiversität nicht einberechnet. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/19/fossil-fuel-firms-owe-climate-reparations-of-209bn-a-year-says-study
Studie: Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(23)00198-7
Dichter und sehr gut dokumentierter Überblicksratikel über die Expansionspläne der Öl- und Gasindustrie. Aus unerschlossenen Feldern sollen 230 Milliarden Barrel Öläquivalent gefördert werden - im klaren Widerspruch zum Pariser Abkommen. Durch Ausbeutung neuer Lager werden bis 2025 voraussichtlich 70 Gt CO<sub>2</sub> und damit 17% des Budgets für das 1,5° Ziel ausgestoßen. Eingegangen wird auch auf den Ausstiegsplan des Tyndall Centre. https://taz.de/Run-auf-fossile-Brennstoffe/!5973686/
Gut recherchierter Überblicksartikel zur zunehmenden Ausbeutung von Erdgas im Senegal und Ländern. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/31/senegal-natural-gas-climate-change/
In Afrika ist Gasinfrastruktur für 245 Milliarden Dollar geplant Vanessa Nakate ruft die westlichen Staaten auf, Afrika bei der Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien zu unterstützen, statt Erdgasvorräte zu erschließen, Abhängigkeit und Verschmutzung zu steigern und die Klimakrise noch weiter zu verschärfen. Nakate argumentiert auch damit, dass nach dem neuesten IEA Report bereits 2025 ein Erdgasüberschuss herrschen wird. Nur 2% der Investitionen in Erneuerbare gehen im Augenblick nach Afrika https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/27/rich-countries-fossil-fuels-africa-renewables-gas-climate
Understanding the Complex Interplay of Governance, Systematic, and Structural Factors Affecting Service Delivery in South African Municipalities
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Eine Gruppe von NGOs hat ein Konzept für eine Klimaschaden-Steuer ausgearbeitet, zu der Öl- und Gasgesellschaften ausgehend vom von ihnen verursachten CO2-Ausstoß herangezogen würden. Würde die Steuer in den OECD-Ländern mit 5$ pro Kilotonne CO2 beginnen und sich jährlich um weitere 5$ erhöhen, stünden 2030 jährlich 900 Milliarden $ vor allem für den Loss and Damage Fund zur Verfügung, der bei der COP28 beschlossen wurde.
Bericht: https://www.greenpeace.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CDT_guide_2024_embargoed_version.pdf
Eine neue Studie beschäftigt sich mit der zunehmenden Frequenz der Aufeinanderfolge extremer Trockenheit und extremer Niederschläge in Pakistan und in vielen afrikanischen Ländern. Ähnliche Phänomene lassen sich in Norditalien feststellen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/14/extreme-drought-in-northern-italy-mirrors-climate-in-ethiopia
Eine extreme Hitzewelle hat in der Sahelzone Hunderte, wahrscheinlich Tausende Menschenleben gefordert. World Weather Attribution zufolge ist die Höhe der Temperaturen eindeutig auf die globale Erhitzung durch Treibhausgase zurückzuführen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/18/lethal-heatwave-in-sahel-worsened-by-fossil-fuel-burning-study-finds
60% of Africa’s food is based on wheat, rice and maize
stats - 60% of Africa's food is composed of: - wheat - rice - maize
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the problem with Africa is that they are such a huge importer of all the things that is necessary to maintain Modern Life most notably agriculture that if you break down Global Supply 00:09:19 chains a lot of these countries are going to dissolve
for - resiliency - Africa - futures - Africa
resiliency - Africa - food production and becoming autonomous - Africa needs to become autonomous of global supply chains in order to become resilient in the next critical years
for - Elon Musk Don Lemon interview - Elon Musk - cancels Don Lemon - Elon Musk - South Africa, early childhood trauma
Summary - Lemon points out Musk's consequential role in the world and that people who invest in his various projects have a right to know about the wellbeing of the leader of the company they are investing in. - Actions speak louder than words and his cancelation of Lemon's show demonstrates he was very uncomfortable with Lemon's questions. It was obvious from Musk's defensive body language.
Reference - https://fortune.com/well/2023/09/17/does-elon-musk-have-ptsd-walter-isaacson-biography/ - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-south-africa.html
Die italienische Ministerpräsidentin Meloni hat Einzelheiten des sogenannten Mattei-Plans bekannt gegeben, mit dem man die Zusammenarbeit mit Afrika intensivieren will. Von 5,5 Milliarden Euro, die ausgegeben werden sollen, stammt mehr als die Hälfte aus dem italienischen Klimafonds und der Rest aus dem Fonds für Entwicklung- und Zusammenarbeit. Eine Hauptabsicht ist, neben vielen Entwicklungs- und Weiterbildungsprojekten, Italien zu einem "hub" für Strom- und Gas- bzw Wasserstofflieferungen nach Europa zu machen. https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2024/01/29/news/piano_mattei_cosa_e_quali_sono_i_progetti-422007100/
Anlässlich des Italien-Afrika-Gipfels in Rom warnen etwa 600 afrikanische Fachleute in einem offenen Brief davor, noch mehr in fossile Energien in Afrika zu investieren, ein überholtes Entwicklungsmodell festzuschreiben und die Emissionen weiter zu erhöhen. Italien ist bereits jetzt der wichtigste europäische Importeur fossiler Brennstoffe aus Afrika. Die Regierung Meloni will diese Schlüsselrolle ausbauen .https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2024/01/29/news/piano_mattei_vertice_gas-422000853/
Die Klimabeauftagten der USA und Chinas, John Kerry und Xie Zhenhua, ziehen sich zurück. Der Guardian fast die klimapolitischen Aktivitäten und Versäumnisse beiden Länder zusammen. Beide hätten, stellt Paul Bledsoe fest, erst damit begonnen die Wirtschaften ihrer Länder auf Wege zu viel niedrigeren Emissionen und größerer Klima-Kooperation zu bringen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/21/goodbye-mr-kerry-farewell-mr-xie-end-of-an-era-in-global-climate-politics
African countries have become reliant on a few food items.
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stats - food insecurity - 20 plant species make up 90% of food consumed in Africa - 3 crops introduced by the Green Revolution make up 60% of all calories consumed - wheat - maize - rice
African countries have become reliant on a few food items.
Just 20 plant species now provide 90% of our food, with three
accounting for 60% of all calories consumed on the continent and globally.
at the very time when research has found
massive food and nutrition insecurity in Africa.
Yet historically, Africa had
- 30,000 edible plant species, and
- 7,000 were traditionally cultivated or foraged for food.
The continent is a treasure trove of agrobiodiversity (a diversity of types of crops and animals) and
for - energy futures.South Africa.IRP inaccuracies
Die afrikanischen Politiker:innen Nathaniel Mong’are und Abdoulie Ceesay bewerten das COP28-Ergebnis und die Ktivitäten der Emirate vor und während der Konferenz als positiv. Maßgeblich für sie ist die Finanzierung des gerechten Übergang; hier sei viel, wenn auch bei weitem nicht genug, Geld mobilisiert worden.
in west Africa, whereabout 6.4 million (39.3%) of an estimated 16.2 millionpregnant women had malaria infections
39.3% of pregnant women in West Africa moderate to high transmission countries had malaria infections in 2022. This seems surprisingly high. I haven't seen the regular case incidence for West Africa directly mentioned in this report, but I would expect it lower than the case incidence for Nigeria which I calculate as 30.5% (p202)
1.2
1.2% of patients don't respond to the standard malaria medication
A. P. falciparum parasite rate (Pf PR), 2022
ChatGPT: "The term "Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate" refers to the percentage of individuals in a population who are infected with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum ... PfPR\(_{2-10}\) refers to the Plasmodium falciparum Parasite Rate in the age group of 2 to 10 years old."
Zu Beginn der COP28 wurde die Einrichtung eines loss and damage-Fonds entsprechend den kurz vorher vereinbarten Regularien beschlossen. Deutschland und die UAE sind die ersten Einzahler, andere Länder folgen. Damit kann die Konferenz mit einer Erfolgsmeldung beginnen. Die weitere Finanzierung ist allerdings unklar; die zu erwartenden Beträge bleiben weit hinter dem Bedarf zurück. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/30/agreement-on-loss-and-damage-deal-expected-on-first-day-of-cop28-talks
Überflutungen haben ihn Kenia und Somalia bereits über 200 Opfer gefordert. Im Somalia sind über 200.000 Menschen geflohen. https://www.74rstandard.de/story/3000000197422/zahl-der-toten-durch-ueberflutungen-in-somalia-steigt-auf-fast-100
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In den Ländern am Horn von Afrika haben Überflutung zum Tod vieler Menschen geführt. Sie sind vermutlich das Ergebnis von natürlichen periodischen Ereignissen wie El Niño, die von der globalen Erhitzung verstärkt werden. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000194627/toedliche-ueberschwemmungen-am-horn-von-afrika
Bei dem afrikanischen klimagipfel in Nairobi zeichnen sich Konflikte über einen Ausstieg aus fossilen Energien ab. Einige Länder, darunter Nigeria und Senegal, wollen die vorhandenen und zum Teil gerade entdeckten Ressourcen ausbeuten.
“Given the high unemployment rate in South Africa as well … you cannot sell it as a climate change intervention,” says Deborah Ramalope, head of climate policy analysis at the policy institute Climate Analytics in Berlin. “You really need to sell it as a socioeconomic intervention.”
climate finance expert Malango Mughogho, who is managing director of ZeniZeni Sustainable Finance Limited in South Africa and a member of the United Nations High-Level Expert Group on net-zero emissions commitments.
In Nairobi findet in dieser Woche der erste afrikanische klimagipfel statt. Ein zentrales Thema sind Funanzierungsleistungen des globalen Nordens. Viele Initiativen besonders der kenianischen Präsidentschaft sind umstritten. NGOs befürchten, dass sie die Länder, die die Klima-Katastrophe verursachen, entlasten und nicht zur Minderung der Emissionen beitragen.
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Vor allem in afrikanischen Ländern wie Burkina Faso wird eine weitere Erhitzung zu Temperaturen führen, die für Menschen nur durch Klimatisierung zu ertragen sind. Weltweit wird der Energiebedarf für Kühlung so sehr steigen, dass er 2050 dem gesamten Energiebedarf der USA, Europas und Japans im Jahr 2016 entsprechen könnte. Bericht über eine schon im Mai erschienene Studie zum Kühlungsbedarf bis 2050.
Studie: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01155-z
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First and foremost, where will a largely desert country source the water for electrolysis? Secondly, will Namibia export only hydrogen, ammonia, or some of the industrial products made with the green inputs? It would be advantageous for Namibia to develop a heavy-chemicals and iron-smelting industry. But from Germany’s point of view, that might well defeat the object, which is precisely to provide affordable green energy with which to keep industrial jobs in Europe.
This is an interesting point - shipping the gas vs shipping the higher value products enabled by the gas
93% der Länder, die am verwundbarsten durch die Klimakrise sind, sind bereits überschuldet oder stehen kurz davor. Trotzdem sind bisher Kredite das Hauptinstrument der Klimafinanzierung. Damit verschärft sich die Schuldenkrise vor allem vieler afrikanischer Staaten. Sie ist eines der Hauptthemen des Pariser Klimafinanz-Gipfels. Hintergrund-Bericht der Libération mit vielen vertiefenden Informationen. https://www.liberation.fr/international/afrique/quinze-ans-apres-lafrique-rattrapee-par-la-dette-20230622_FC3LKPPATFCXDIGC4FS626ZE4E/
Oxfam: Climate Finance Shadow Report 2033 https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/climate-finance-shadow-report-2023
This a summary of the conference, and the key takeaways for me are:
Dr Lisa van Aardenne, the chief scientist of the University of Cape Town’s climate system analysis group, discussed the use and utility of thermal stress indices. She pointed out that, by the definitions of the universal thermal climate index, much of Africa is under heat stress most days of the year. Van Aardenne noted that these indices have been developed from a European perspective and do not align with the reality on the ground in Africa. She added: “I’m very concerned that these indices are not fit for purpose here.”
So for Africa, the figures are so bad that they always look like they're in an emergency? I'm guessing the impact would be that people are more likely to ignore them
Dr Sokhna Thiam, from the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya, added that water-borne enteric diseases are among the “primary expected health impacts” of climate change.
Basically climate changes makes the leading cause of child deaths much worse
United States biomedical researchers and pharmaceutical companies are conducting and paying African doctors to conduct unethical and illegal testing of human subjects. Nonconsensual research on human subjects is an atrocity that occurred in Tuskegee, Alabama, and in Guatemala for over forty years. Once outlawed in the U.S., medical researchers began experimenting on thousands of human research subjects without their consent in Cameroon, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other African countries.
Die World Weather Attribution Group hat in einer Studie nachgewiesen, dass die große Dürre an Horn von Afrika ein Ergebnis der Erhitzung der Erde durch Treibhausgase ist. Von der Dürre sind 50 Millionen Menschen direkt und weitere 100 Millionen indirekt betroffen. Ohne die Erhöhung der Temperaturen hätten dieselben Regenverhältnisse nicht zu einer Dürre geführt. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/27/human-driven-climate-crisis-fuelling-horn-of-africa-drought-study
The complexities of the response of South Africans to the war in Ukraine are discussed in this story. On the one hand, the South African ANC government has had a historical political and economic relationship with Russia that continues up to the invasion of Ukraine. On the other hand, the ANCs struggle against apartheid puts it in a paradoxical situation with the huge atrocities Russia is now perpetrating upon Ukraine.
Violations of early NATO treaty and alleged corruption within the Ukraine government cannot justify Putin's continued human rights atrocities.
In this day and age, does national sovereignty justify war? In this day and age, the need for Mutually Assured Destruction is indeed MADness .
With climate change breathing down our necks as well as the 6th mass extinction, we appear to be a world gone mad.
I was struck by the sad, but simultaneously brutally honest ways in which Wainaina illustrates how Africa as a continent has been classically depicted in literature. Wainaina describes that there is a primarily Eurocentric view of Africa in which white people, celebrities, activists, aids workers, and conservationists seem to be held in a higher regard than native Africans.
In 2003 five northern Nigerian states boycotted the oral polio vaccine due to fears that it was unsafe. Though the international responses have been scrutinised in the literature, this paper argues that lessons still need to be learnt from the boycott: that the origins and continuation of the boycott were due to specific local factors.
Origin and continuation boycott made this unique.
Indeed ‘anti-vaccination rumours’ have been defined as a major threat to achieving vaccine coverage goals. This is demonstrated in this paper through a case study of responses to the Global Polio Eradication Campaign (GPEI) in northern Nigeria where Muslim leaders ordered the boycott of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV). A 16-month controversy resulted from their allegations that the vaccines were contaminated with anti-fertility substances and the HIV virus was a plot by Western governments to reduce Muslim populations worldwide.
Kustin, T., Harel, N., Finkel, U., Perchik, S., Harari, S., Tahor, M., Caspi, I., Levy, R., Leschinsky, M., Dror, S. K., Bergerzon, G., Gadban, H., Gadban, F., Eliassian, E., Shimron, O., Saleh, L., Ben-Zvi, H., Amichay, D., Ben-Dor, A., … Stern, A. (2021). Evidence for increased breakthrough rates of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in BNT162b2 mRNA vaccinated individuals. MedRxiv, 2021.04.06.21254882. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254882
Beaumont, P. (2021, December 17). T-cells in Pfizer Covid jab recipients stay robust against severe illness. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/17/t-cells-pfizer-covid-jab-robust-against-severe-illness-south-africa-research
Feinmann, J. (2021). Covid-19: Global vaccine production is a mess and shortages are down to more than just hoarding. BMJ, 375, n2375. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2375
Johnson, T., Moultrie, T., Gonsalves, G., & Hassan, F. (2021, October 12). An inconvenient truth: The real reason why Africa is not getting vaccinated. Bhekisisa. https://bhekisisa.org/opinion/2021-10-12-an-inconvenient-truth-the-real-reason-why-africa-is-not-getting-vaccinated/
Torjesen, I. (2021). Covid-19: Omicron may be more transmissible than other variants and partly resistant to existing vaccines, scientists fear. BMJ, 375, n2943. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2943
Irwin, A. (2021). How COVID spurred Africa to plot a vaccines revolution. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01048-1
Davis, N., & Sample, I. (2021, November 29). UK science advisers brace for hundreds of confirmed Omicron Covid cases. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/29/uk-scientific-advisers-brace-confirmed-omicron-covid-cases
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Le Page, M. (2021, November 22). What we know so far about AY.4.2 and other new coronavirus variants. New Scientist. https://institutions.newscientist.com/article/2298363-what-we-know-so-far-about-ay-4-2-and-other-new-coronavirus-variants/?utm_campaign=echobox&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 14). RT @thehowie: BREAKING South Africa: 82% increase in cases, week over week. 34.9% positive rate. Record 7-day average. Not near platea… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1470814593610047490
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 13). Important update on the now withdrawn @BallouxFrancois tweet identifying hopeful turning of the corner in SA omicron data [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1470311016114364420
John Burn-Murdoch. (2021, November 25). Five quick tweets on the new variant B.1.1.529 Caveat first: Data here is very preliminary, so everything could change. Nonetheless, better safe than sorry. 1) Based on the data we have, this variant is out-competing others far faster than Beta and even Delta did 🚩🚩 https://t.co/R2Ac4e4N6s [Tweet]. @jburnmurdoch. https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1463956686075580421
CNN, I. K. (n.d.). Vaccine inequity and hesitancy made the Omicron variant more likely, scientists say. CNN. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/28/world/omicron-coronavirus-variant-vaccine-inequity-intl-cmd/index.html
ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: “RT @chrischirp: As well as Tom’s new one (B.1.1.529), C.1.2 seems to be spreading in S Africa—C.1.2 was the one with lots of worrying mut…” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved December 23, 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1463597407082532864
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 11). RT @thehowie: BREAKING: Hospitalizations South Africa Hospitalizations⬆️67% week over week. Gauteng Province⬆️66%. GP⬆️1.6% from yesterd… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1469685234149072897
Perspective | Even the best-case scenario with omicron will still be bad. (n.d.). Washington Post. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/21/omicron-mild-cases-numbers/
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, November 27). RT @_HassanF: 📢 2 key 📑 resources, if you writing about us in Africa right now: Africa-Vaccine Data 2021: Https://mediahack.co.za/datastories/coronavirus/africa-covid19/africa-vaccinations/ @mediah… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1464683668631392257
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 11). RT @thehowie: BREAKING: South Africa: Week over week increase of only 4.8% today. 16.4% positive rate is near half of recent levels. 36… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1469945163615129602
ReconfigBehSci [@SciBeh]. (2021, November 26). RT @mvankerkhove: I thank researchers from 🇿🇦 and 🇧🇼 for sharing information with @WHO & the world about B.1.1.529 variant that has been re… [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1464196599773642779
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, November 26). RT @PeterHotez: …this info is more relevant than immune escape. For instance the B.1.351 from ZA last year never really took off. So transm… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1464240155070447632
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 20). RT @thehowie: South Africa Deaths (7 day average) are near double levels of a few weeks ago. They will go up further. They are only 7.5%… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1472991477672419334
Jay Patel. (2021, December 12). Well captured by @snolen. Even as vaccine supply becomes more reliable, the uptake challenge across Africa is partly down to “vaccine indifference” rather than hesitancy––there are far more pressing problems across the region. [Tweet]. @PatelJay. https://twitter.com/Patel_Jay_/status/1470028858682400772
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 11). RT @CaulfieldTim: Getting Africa fully vaccinated is complicated. It isn’t as simple as just sending more doses https://cbc.ca/news/world/vaccine-inequity-covid-19-africa-1.6275262?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar @ma… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1469938807101345797
Im Zentrum des Interesses an Afrika und der Interessen afrikanischer Eltern steht Energie. Ägypten will das neue Feld von Zohr ausbeuten. Italien hat Abkommen mit Kongo, Angola und Algerien geschlossen.
Crop harvests for direct food use insufficient to meet the UN’s food security goal
Planetary Boundary / Doughnut Economic Main Main Category: SOCIO-ECONOMIC: Food
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ReconfigBehSci [@SciBeh]. (2021, December 25). RT @thehowie: South Africa: Christmas update Hospitalizations⬆️15% week over week, ⬇️0.4% from yesterday. Gauteng Province ⬆️1.8% week ov… [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1474815859235381251
(((Howard Forman))) [@thehowie]. (2021, December 26). South Africa Hospitalizations⬆️15% week over week⬆️0.3% from yesterday Gauteng Province⬆️2.4% week over week⬆️0.7% Long plateau: Ventilators are last to peak (17% of Delta peak) Should see meaningful declines later this week. Https://t.co/qNv1l5hNcv [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/thehowie/status/1475095305297268740
Kai Kupferschmidt. (2021, December 1). If you’re curious how likely #omicron is to have spread from South Africa or Botswana to different places, @DirkBrockmann and colleagues have done some interesting calculations based on the world aviation network from 08/2021 You can see that US seems a very likely destination https://t.co/OSnZ6ZNble [Tweet]. @kakape. https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1466107074585239568
Ravi K Gupta [@ravgup33_ravi]. (2021, November 24). This one is worrying and I’ve not said that since delta. Please get vaccinated and boosted and mask up in public as the mutations in this virus likely result in high level escape from neutralising antibodies [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/ravgup33_ravi/status/1463626745651806208
Dr Dominic Pimenta [@DrDomPimenta]. (2021, December 15). An illustration of communicating risk with “less severe” variants: [Thread] Assume Omicron is 4x more transmissible than Delta. [1] Assume Omicron leads to 1/3 less admissions than Delta. [Figure below] Assume 1 in 100 cases of Delta are admitted to hospital. Https://t.co/XtnVwoOrUo [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/DrDomPimenta/status/1471094002808242177
Prof. Christina Pagel 🇺🇦 [@chrischirp]. (2021, November 24). As well as Tom’s new one (B.1.1.529), C.1.2 seems to be spreading in S Africa—C.1.2 was the one with lots of worrying mutations first reported in August... Plus cases in S Africa suddenly increasing again in the middle of their summer. Https://t.co/fCqfOMcO83 [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1463504890530086917
ReconfigBehSci [@SciBeh]. (2021, November 25). RT @florian_krammer: Some info about B.1.1.529 from the South African research community. Thanks so much for sharing. Https://t.co/ckJQu5WV… [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1463967551944368143
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ReconfigBehSci [@SciBeh]. ‘RT @vikkypaedia: B.1.1.529 Seems to Have Gone from 0.1% to 50% in Just a Couple of Weeks, When It Took Delta Several Months to Achieve That…’. Tweet. Twitter, 26 November 2021. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1464194450406752282.
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD [@PeterHotez]. (2021, December 14). 6. I was really hoping we would get the holidays in before the omicron wall hit. Doesn’t look like it https://t.co/X3Kud2ybdQ [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1470895433518133252
ReconfigBehSci [@SciBeh]. ‘RT @Tuliodna: Busy Day on B.1.1.529 - a Variant of Great Concern - The World Should Provide Support to South Africa and Africa and Not Dis…’. Tweet. Twitter, 25 November 2021. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1464130377178619904.
Dr Emma Hodcroft [@firefoxx66]. (2021, November 26). We now have B.1.1.529 sequences (designed at @nextstrain clade 21K) up in our Africa build. You can check them out below. These are from South Africa & Botswana—You can see the high number of mutations. CoVariants focal build & updates will come ASAP. https://t.co/fqBldneF5U [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/1464145615571623938
ReconfigBehSci [@SciBeh]. (2021, November 26). RT @AdamJKucharski: Reminder that reactive travel bans typically slow but don’t stop importations. If new B.1.1.529 variant genuinely more… [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1464195627542327297
ReconfigBehSci [@SciBeh]. (2021, December 16). RT @hotSahs: @LivRNyyc @MDaware From today’s Ontario Science Table’s COVID update slide deck: Https://t.co/uJsQZZX2Cy [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1471531875013378058
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Moritz Gerstung. (2021, November 1). An update on currently circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants in England beyond AY.4.2. Based on data released weekly to http://covid19.sanger.ac.uk we’ve been monitoring the speed of spread of currently 232 lineages. It’s a very dynamic situation and at times hard to stay on top. 🧵 [Tweet]. @MoritzGerstung. https://twitter.com/MoritzGerstung/status/1455136551407689734
BNO/Medriva Newsroom [@medriva]. (2021, November 26). South Africa’s health minister says, based on a small sample of Omicron cases, the majority of hospital patients are unvaccinated: ‘It indicates that the vaccines are providing protection’ [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/medriva/status/1464327805836083201
ReconfigBehSci [@i]. (2021, December 16). is it though? It’s pointless in terms of keeping omicron out, but why would it be pointless in terms of reducing mobility and contacts? [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1471439660991889411
South Africa has nearly 26 000 schools, 400 000 teachers and close to 13-million learners.
South Africa has an interesting number of school and learners. with a big number of learners in the country.
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Tulio de Oliveira. (2022, February 9). As expected, Omicron BA.2 takes over in South Africa, close to 100% of the new genomes. What does it mean? Https://t.co/SAb9mGYSjN [Tweet]. @Tuliodna. https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/1491483399265075202
Adele Groyer. (2022, January 8). Friday report is now out. Https://covidactuaries.org/2022/01/07/the-friday-report-issue-58/ I am struck that perception of a “mild” Covid situation is relative. In SA natural deaths were >30% higher than predicted in Dec. The last time weekly death rates in E&W were more than 30% above 2015-19 levels was in Jan 2021. Https://t.co/S9fkn2WFVk [Tweet]. @AdeleGroyer. https://twitter.com/AdeleGroyer/status/1479760460589191170
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Tom Wenseleers. (2022, January 30). Seems that the second Omicron subvariant BA.2 may soon be about to cause cases to start rising again in South Africa... Or at least to stop the decline in new infections. Shows how fast immunity wanes & evolution can catch up. Https://t.co/3y4xqPgZ0L [Tweet]. @TWenseleers. https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/1487919837670219781
Jorge A. Caballero, MD (jorgecaballero.eth). (2022, January 25). I’m not sure what to say anymore https://t.co/wapOCaoD6X [Tweet]. @DataDrivenMD. https://twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1485914512360235010
Mike Honey 💉💉💉. (2022, January 22). Here’s the latest variant picture for BA.2 (Omicron). Globally it has been far less common than it’s sibling BA.1 lineage. The frequency of BA.2 is rising rapidly in several countries, notably India, Denmark & Singapore. 🧵 https://t.co/nE926hn9ws [Tweet]. @MikeHoney. https://twitter.com/Mike_Honey_/status/1484707779327950855
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Natalie E. Dean, PhD. (2022, January 2). Interesting. From this afternoon in @nytimes: Https://nytimes.com/2022/01/01/us/omicron-covid-holidays-surge-testing.html https://t.co/qCCkjXKS2K [Tweet]. @nataliexdean. https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1477487783992254464
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Harry Spoelstra. (2021, November 26). Breaking: ECDC has designated B.1.1.529 today as a #VOC https://t.co/WyLnc9xUoJ [Tweet]. @HarrySpoelstra. https://twitter.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/1464261361370910721
Arieh Kovler. (2021, November 26). Israel has identified four cases of the B.1.1.529 variant, all recent travellers. One case, a 32-year-old woman returning from South Africa, was triple vaccinated with Pfizer and had her 3rd dose just two months ago. [Tweet]. @ariehkovler. https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1464190991204859919
Tom Moultrie. (2021, December 17). A 1-figure Gauteng update, bringing in data through Wednesday 15/12 (PCR only; by date of collection). The turn continues. On similar metrics (not shown) ALL northern provinces (NW, GT, MP, LP) seem to have now turned. Https://t.co/6Bh3kZsooK [Tweet]. @tomtom_m. https://twitter.com/tomtom_m/status/1471723711287996416
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Carl T. Bergstrom. (2021, November 26). I’d be careful not to overinterpret the following graph from @jburnmurdoch. Yes, the fraction of B.1.1.529 is increasing faster. But I think that is that is largely due to different denominators. Https://t.co/NDhSqJpLlw [Tweet]. @CT_Bergstrom. https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1464061037292883970
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ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 12). RT @thehowie: BREAKING: Hospitalizations South Africa Hospitalizations⬆️70% week over week Gauteng Province⬆️50% GP⬆️1.2% from yesterday IC… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1470065925596618755
Tom Moultrie. (2021, December 12). Given the comedic misinterpretation of the South African testing data offered by @BallouxFrancois (and many others!) last night ... I offer some tips having contributed to the analysis of the testing data for the @nicd_sa since April last year. (1/6) [Tweet]. @tomtom_m. https://twitter.com/tomtom_m/status/1469954015932915718
Max Roser. (2021, December 11). The number of confirmed COVID cases is rising in all of Southern Africa. Https://t.co/3hP7f3zoqt [Tweet]. @MaxCRoser. https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1469634777078710274
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Trevor Branch. (2021, November 28). countries banned because of the omicron variant vs. Countries with confirmed omicron cases https://t.co/7HAxx03KfE [Tweet]. @TrevorABranch. https://twitter.com/TrevorABranch/status/1464748201601159169
Alistair Haimes. (2021, December 3). @nicfreeman1209 Ok, so vax take-up in Gauteng is 38.6%. Given 9% of inpatients whose vax status is known are vaxxed, I think that’s pretty encouraging (odds, log odds, etc.) https://t.co/eAAfIQ8BQT [Tweet]. @AlistairHaimes. https://twitter.com/AlistairHaimes/status/1466711359329120258
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Lindiwe Mazibuko. (2021, November 27). When literally every country “banning” you has a higher infection rate 🙄 https://t.co/NZMuf9Pfx5 [Tweet]. @LindiMazibuko. https://twitter.com/LindiMazibuko/status/1464539078611939333
Jorge A. Caballero, MD. (2021, December 3). #Omicron is sending more kids to the hospital than #Delta in South Africa https://t.co/bv5CxIag2u [Tweet]. @DataDrivenMD. https://twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1466658311227404292
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Stephen Reicher. (2021, November 26). 55.1% of the worlds population has had one dose of Covid vaccine. 29% in South Africa 10.1% in Africa as a whole Only 6% of Africans are fully vaccinated So is it any surprise new variants are arising from Africa? What doesn’t go around (as vaccine) Comes around (as Covid). Https://t.co/0X0vZ6flmc [Tweet]. @ReicherStephen. https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1464202267196858380
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Scientific African - major step forward. Also mention of Next Einstein Institute.
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Alex Macheras on Twitter: “UK government confirm tonight that if a person has been vaccinated in Africa, or South America, or countries including UAE, India, Turkey, Jordan, Thailand, Russia… …you are considered ‘unvaccinated’ and must follow ‘unvaccinated’ rules ⛔️ = 10 day home quarantine & tests” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved September 21, 2021, from https://twitter.com/AlexInAir/status/1438991435697639427
Slavery existed in the African states, and it was sometimes used byEuropeans to justify their own slave trade. But, as Davidson points out, the“slaves” of Africa were more like the serfs of Europe—in other words, likemost of the population of Europe. It was a harsh servitude, but they had rightswhich slaves brought to America did not have, and they were “altogetherdifferent from the human cattle of the slave ships and the Americanplantations.”
I like the framing of this.
While Europeans used the fact that slavery existed in Africa to justify their own use of Africans as slaves, the concept of slavery in Africa was akin to the idea of serfs in Europe. These slaves/serfs in Africa certainly had hard and difficult lives, but they did have some rights and freedoms not granted to American slaves in any form.
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