Friday, October 9, 2015
Temperature fluctuations kill scores of sardines in Russia’s Sakhalin
Temperature fluctuations kill scores of sardines in Russia’s Sakhalin
Hundreds of thousands of sardines were found dead in Sakhalin in Russia on the coast of the Strait of Tartary in early October.
Experts say strong temperature fluctuations in the water were to blame for the mass death of the Far Eastern Sardines. The sharp fall in temperature at night caused the fish to become inactive, and end up being swept ashore.
The sardines travel a long way from subtropical waters in early summer to Sakhalin for fattening here till mid-October each year, and rarely have they experienced such an extreme temperature change.
However, for locals, this was an opportunity for a free lunch, and literally so, with many of them coming to the beach with buckets to carry the fish home. Experts say the fish are edible.
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Veteran Journalist Mulugeta Lulle dies at age 75
Veteran Journalist Mulugeta Lulle dies at age 75
Veteran journalist and political analyst Mulugeta Lule
Mulugeta Lule was a contemporary of the great novelists of the ’70s, standing tall among the iconic figures of the time: Ba’alu Girma, Sebhat Gebregzabher, Berhanu Zerihun, among others. Unlike his colleagues, Mulugeta spent much of his time in Ethiopia as a government official. Before the change of regime in 1991, Mulugeta was general manager of the influential Ethiopian Press Department, the office which published the leading newspapers of the country such as ‘The Ethiopian Herald’, ‘Addis Zemen’ and ‘Yezareitu Ethiopia.’
As head of the Press Department, Mulugeta was also a participant in journalism workshops, teaching the basics of writing news and commentaries to young employees of the different newspapers, including the Arabic Al-Alem and the Oromiffa Berisso. There was no doubt Mulugeta was a master in his field.
In 1991 when the EPRDF overthrew the Derg regime and took the reigns of power, Mulugeta Lulle authored Atfeto Metfat, a book that chronicles the failings of the Derg military regime. Despite his experience as a veteran journalist, Mulugeta was never spared of being expelled from his job.
Yet after his departure from the Information Ministry, Mulugeta and friends launched Tobia, an Amharic magazine that would be the darling of the public readership but a bone in the throat of the ruling party.
Despite EPRDF’s ‘press freedom’ rhetoric, Tobia staffers suffered numerous setbacks in the hands of the EPRDF regime. Editors and reporters were spending much of their time in courts, defending their cases that either landed them in jail or exacted heavy fines.
After an uphill battle, Mulugeta realized that he had no chance of escaping arrest, and went into exile in the United States. Despite the hurdles of life for an immigrant, Mulugeta had the time to write engaging articles under the pen names of Tsegaye Gebremedhin Araya and Seneshaw Tegegn. Almost all commentaries were shots fired at the TPLF/EPRDF regime.
As a family man, friends remember Mulugeta as reserved and yet forthcoming, aloof and yet engaging, withdrawn and yet joke-cracking. Mulugeta is survived by his wife and children
Source: http://www.ethiomedia.com/1000parts/7353.html
The Joint Sudan/South Sudan Boundary Commission meets in Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (HAN) October 7, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security Initiative News. The Joint Sudan and South Sudan Boundary Commission met in Addis Ababa on Wednesday (October 7) for talks under the auspices of African Union Border Program whose objectives are the delimitation and demarcation of borders and the promotion of cross-border cooperation. The Co-Chairs of the Joint Commission, Michael Makuei, Minister of Information and Broadcasting of South Sudan and El-Rashid Haroun, State Minister at the Sudanese Presidency also met the AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, Commissioner Smail Chergui.
The Commissioner who stressed the importance of building on the dynamic momentum between the two countries in order to give more impetus to peace efforts in the region, said he was encouraged by the positive atmosphere of the meeting and the genuine cooperation the two parties were extending to the AU Commission including “the determination of their respective governments to demarcate the common boundary between the two countries.” The claimed and disputed areas of the two countries include Abyei, Joudat Al-Fakhar, Jebel al-Migainais, Kaka and the Kafia Kingi enclave (Hofrat al-Nahas). This fourth meeting of the Joint Boundary Commission (JBC) is expected to “pave the way for the implementation of the planned activities of the JBC in accordance with the Agreement on Border Issues signed in September 2012”. -MFA
Source: geeskaafrika.com
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Mole Valley's ongoing support for Send a Cow charity
Mole Valley Farmers is delighted to announce that it will continue its historic support of the farming charity Send a Cow, when a member of staff embarks on a week’s study tour to Ethiopia from 10 – 16 October.
Andy Skarzynski, Head of Retail Marketing and Ecommerce, hopes that his whistle-stop tour will enable him to report in detail to members on the impact of Mole Valley Farmers’ support of Send a Cow’s work in Ethiopia over the past 28 years. Andy, who successfully took the ‘Live Below the Line’ challenge, spending a maximum of 50p a day on food and drink for a week earlier this year, says: “There is no substitute for seeing something first hand, so I am very grateful to Send a Cow for giving me the opportunity to visit some of their projects. We start at Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa before moving out to Arba Minch and the wilderness areas of Gununo. Many British farmers are having a challenging time at the moment and I am sure they would fully understand the potential value of sustainable agriculture to a developing nation”.
Mole Valley Farmers has a long history of practical support for farmers in Africa. In the 1980s it was involved through founder John James with Bob Geldof’s ground-breaking Band Aid project, and also had strong ties with the inception of Send a Cow. In 1987 David Bragg, a Mole Valley Farmers member from Kelland Barton, Crediton, called a meeting. The group, (Andrew Friend, Chittlehampton; Robert Vere, Morchard Bishop; Gerald Alford, Exeter; Anthony Bush, Bristol; Gerald Addicott, Bath and Kenneth Darch, Taunton) shared their outrage at EU milk quotas, which were forcing them to slaughter healthy dairy cows. One farmer knew from experience that keeping livestock in Africa was tough – but possible. And Send a Cow was born.
Mole Valley Farmers will be supporting Send a Cow’s “Planting Hope” campaign during November by hosting four specially constructed keyhole Gardens at its Yeovil, Cullompton, Holsworthy, South Molton stores. The gardens will be built by local primary school children, in conjunction with a Send a Cow specialist. They will remain in-store for a month, before being relocated to the schools for on-going use. The Department for International Development (DfID) are also supporting Send a Cow’s Planting Hope Appeal, which means for every pound Mole Valley Farmers raise towards the appeal between 1st October and 31st December 2015, the UK government will double it!Today the charity supports over 20,000 households (over 120,000 people) a year across seven countries in sub Saharan Africa; Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, and Lesotho. Since 1988, Send a Cow has transformed the lives of over one million people in Africa.
Source: smallholder.co.uk
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