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Category Archives: Politics
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African Views is a participatory organization. Our mission is to attract and organize related ideological, intellectual, and authoritative information into meaningful categories. Our website, often referred to as AV framework, is geared to promote strategic economic integration, establish fair cultural exchange and representation of African and African Diaspora communities in every country in the world. The AV framework welcomes and encourages the documentation of knowledge. Therefore, discussions and debates are welcome with supporting material from anyone who wishes to share knowledge, information or experience.Welcome to the African Views AV framework.
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Posted in Climate, Countries, Politics
Tagged Africa, Africa Climate, Forest Definition
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Shogun for Waiting
Posted in Climate, Map, Politics
Tagged adaptation, Africa, Agriculture, Biodiversity, biofuel, Climate Change, Indigenous Knowledeg, IPCC, Soil
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MPs set to Steal Kenyans tax money
In total, the public will spend Sh4.3 billion a year on 222 MPs’ salaries and their many allowances. Currently, the MPs’ salaries and allowances other than sitting allowances cost the taxpayer Sh2.2 billion per year. This will rise to Sh3.3 billion under the new plan. The annual bill for sitting allowances alone will be Sh1 billion.The cost of MPs’ wages is only Sh100 million less than the Sh4.4 billion set aside for the purchase of medicine for all hospitals in Kenya under the current budget. MPs’ sitting allowances alone exceed the Sh900 million the government has set aside to buy ARVs for HIV patients this financial year.It is equal to the Sh1 billion the government intends to spend on recruitment of 15 nurses and five health technicians in each of the 210 constituencies. Each MP will cost Sh123 million for one parliamentary term, a lot more money than what the government intends to use to build 200 fish ponds across the country this financial year.Salaries and allowances for all MPs for one term will be Sh27.3 billion, more than the budget for free primary education and the purchase of computers in each of the 210 constituencies this financial year. But the MPs’ salaries and allowances are set to balloon to Sh5.2 billion every year if the proposed constitution sails through, creating a 350-member Parliament, only Sh200 million short of the money the Treasury has set aside for rural electrification which will see 3,310 public institutions in rural areas connected to the national grid this financial year
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GOOGLE Invicible status not working
Have you noticed lately that most of your contacts who prefer to be invisible in google mail are suddenly visible?
Incidentally, in their message panel, it still shows that they are invisible.. but to their contacts, it shows they are available to chat!!google do something!!!
Joachim Chissano: Scientists can make Africa rich
Water is essential for life. Safe, abundant water is vital to our ability to prosper and to fulfill our potential. Without it, we face a continual decline in well-being; we face poverty and hunger and increasing levels of conflict.Across Africa, a third of us have no access to clean water, and almost two thirds no access to clean sanitation, causing widespread suffering from malaria, typhoid, dysentery to many other diseases.Apart from this effect upon our health, the loss of productivity from water-related illnesses holds back our progress.The population in many African countries is growing rapidly each year, averaging 2.5 per cent across sub-Saharan Africa, but the lack of safe water and sanitation reduces our economic growth at twice that rate. And a growing population must be properly fed.
Posted in Climate, Coal, Countries, Floods, Politics
Tagged water day, World Water Crisis
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Bolivia summit to seeks global climate deal
Thousands of people, mostly members of social movements and indigenous groups, are expected to attend the People's World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights from April 20-22.Organizers say it is intended to “give a voice to the people” on climate change after the perceived failure of the United Nations-sponsored Copenhagen summit on the same issue.Solon said he expected participants from 94 countries and representatives from 70 governments to attend, without giving further details.
via AFP: Bolivia summit to seek global climate change referendum.
Posted in Climate, Coal, Countries, Map, Opposing Views, Politics, UNFCCC, World Bank Funds, solar
Tagged Bolivia, Climate Change, evo, Morales
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Algae contributing to petroleum deposits from hundreds of millions of years
“Oils from the green algae Botryococcus braunii can be readily detected in petroleum deposits and coal deposits suggesting that B. braunii has been a contributor to developing these deposits and may be the major contributor,” said Dr. Devarenne.”This means that we are already using these oils to produce gasoline from petroleum,” he added.Devarenne said that B. braunii is a prime candidate for biofuel production because some races of the green algae typically “accumulate hydrocarbons from to 30 percent to 40 percent of their dry weight, and are capable of obtaining hydrocarbon contents up to 86 percent of their dry weight.”"As a group, algae may be the only photosynthetic organism capable of producing enough biofuel to meet transportation fuel demands,” he said.
via Algae contributing to petroleum deposits from hundreds of millions of years.
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Tagged algae, biofuel, biofuels
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For Pennies, a Disposable Toilet That Could Help Grow Crops – NYTimes.com
Once used, the bag can be knotted and buried, and a layer of urea crystals breaks down the waste into fertilizer, killing off disease-producing pathogens found in feces.
Camilla Wirseen and Niklas Palmklint/Peepoople
BIODEGRADABLE Children in Kenya with the Peepoo, a single-use bag designed to convert waste into fertilizer while destroying disease-producing pathogens.
via For Pennies, a Disposable Toilet That Could Help Grow Crops – NYTimes.com.
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What is wrong with the Global Climate Change Architecture?
In his submission before retiring to the private sector, Yvo de Boer sent a warning short, it is impossible to change the climate change architecture from inside the UN.
Does he know something we dont know? What is wrong with the current architecture? Is it at the Kyoto Protocol level or is it at the “Financing mechanism level”, or is the current framework not able to deliver any depictable positive change?
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Tagged architecture, Climate, de boer, developing countries
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Cash strapped Eskom gets price hike, sparks inflation fears
South Africa Cash-strapped Eskom wants to hike electricity prices by 35 percent a year for three years, to help it raise 385 billion rand ($50.38 billion) to build more plants and avoid the blackouts that crippled the vital mining industry in 2008.
Eskom, which provides 95 percent of the country’s power, has been battling an electricity shortage since January 2008, due to a lack of investment in new capacity and ageing power stations.
South Africa’s government bonds gained after the announcement
via UPDATE 1-S.Africa Eskom gets price hike, inflation fears rise | Reuters.