Burkina Faso on Sunday hailed the "courageous decision" by Mali's military regime to call on the UN to withdraw its Minusma peacekeeping force, as both countries fight a jihadist insurgency.
Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop on Friday had called for the immediate withdrawal of the multinational force from the country.
Burkinabe government spokesman Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo said in a statement Ouagadougou "hails this courageous decision taken by the transitional Mali authorities" and "congratulates" Mali for its choice.
The decision was "in conformity with the strategic decision of the Malian state in the fight against terrorism and for the restoration of peace and security in the Sahel", the statement added.
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, or Minusma, was created in 2013, taking over from an African-led mission as Mali was in the grip of an Islamist rebellion that continues today.
I'm going way out on a limb here, but I'm betting these things, much like the supersonic missiles he was to unleash upon a terrified world, weren't supersonic at all, and were/are probably made out of mostly empty toilet paper rolls and spare parts from X-Ray machines
With temperatures touching 45 degree Celsius in parts of northwest India on Sunday, the Indian Meteorological Department has issued fresh heatwave warnings over Delhi-NCR and adjoining areas, including Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, West UP. West Rajasthan, East UP, Jharkhand, East Madhya Pradesh and Gangetic West Bengal, too, are expected to witness heatwaves, the IMD has said.
Without a respite any time soon, the maximum temperatures are very likely to rise by 2-3 degree Celsius over northwest India during the next 3 days. Moreover, no significant change in the maximum temperatures is likely over the rest of India.
However, the IMD in its report said that a fresh western disturbance could bring relief from the hot weather conditions with a fall in maximum temperature by 3-5 degree Celsius from May 24. During this time, light rain and cloudy weather are expected to last for three to four days.
As of now, schools have been closed in Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal due to heatwave conditions.
Uruguay will melt down a bronze Nazi eagle recovered from a sunken German warship and recast it into a dove of peace, President Luis Lacalle Pou announced on Friday.
The 350-kilogram (770-pound), two-meter (6.5-foot)-tall is emblazoned with a Nazi swastika.The statue adorned Nazi Germany's Admiral Graf Spee battleship that was scuttled during World War II. It was uncovered at the bottom of the Rio de la Plata almost two decades ago.
"In times of division, violence, war in the world, we want to set a sign of peace," Lacalle Pou told reporters in Montevideo.
The new dove sculpture will be made by famed Uruguayan artist Pablo Atchugarry.
Nigeria has abandoned its years-long currency peg and allowed the naira to trade freely, traders and local bankers said, prompting the biggest single-day fall in its history.
The about-turn, which has not been confirmed by the central bank, would mark the latest in a series of eye-catching moves since new president Bola Tinubu took office last month. Markets anticipated a possible end to Nigeria’s complex exchange rate system when Tinubu on Friday removed central bank chief Godwin Emefiele, whose signature policy was to prop up the naira.
The country’s official exchange rate dropped to N600 against the dollar on Wednesday according to data from Refinitiv, a fall of 23 per cent from a day earlier and the biggest single-session drop since 2016.
But traders said the real fall was even more marked, with the naira actually changing hands at local banks at about N750 to the dollar, a 40 per cent fall, the biggest drop in its history and roughly in line with the parallel rate used by ordinary Nigerians. Local media reported that traders were told by the central bank to trade the currency freely.
Reminds me of what's happening with Florida and Cali in the US. Insurers pulling out or limiting the risks covered (the most important parts).
No doubt we'll see major swathes of the North Island be pretty much uninsurable. Which is fair cause we get the sign off to build in the most fucked up places lmao.
Mali has called on the United Nations to withdraw its peacekeeping mission from the country “without delay,” denouncing its “failure” to respond to security challenges.
Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop, who is part of Mali’s interim military authorities, told a UN Security Council meeting on Friday that the peacekeeping force known as MINUSMA should withdraw its troops from the West African nation.
El Ghassim Wane, the head of the UN mission in Mali, said after the meeting of the 15-member council that conducting UN peacekeeping operations was “nearly impossible” without the consent of the host country
Kinshasa has accused the M23 rebel group of attacks in the DRC's mineral-rich North Kivu province, and says Rwanda is backing the Tutsi-led militia. Kigali denies any involvement in the violence. The International Criminal Court said Thursday it will examine allegations of war crimes by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east.
It looks like the Chinese lab leak conspiracy theory is slowly being revealed to be conspiracy fact?
There's two theories that often get conflated:
Covid was engineered in a lab
Covid was natural but escaped from a lab where it was being studied
During the pandemic, the first was widely debunked, and the second was generally considered possible but unlikely. I find the evidence for a lab leak is compelling but circumstantial, as there are alternate explanations that seem to explain covid without introducing these variables. However, consensus seems to be evolving; in researching this matter it seems there's a lot of disagreement among geneticists and virologists about the possible origins of the Spike Furin Cleavage Site, for example. I'm interested in this, but weighing the various approaches and probabilities is beyond my knowledge set.
Ultimately, though, does it matter? Would punishing China if it was a lab leak accomplish anything, or has the dangers of viral leaks and the necessity of precaution already been made obvious to everyone? Would outlawing gain-of-function genetic engineering even be meaningful, considering the cost of generic engineering is plummeting and becoming decentralized thanks to techniques like CRISPR and PASTE?
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