In a stark warning, the United Nations chief said on Tuesday that the combined impact of climate chaos and food crises are increasing threats to global peace. Speaking at the UN Security Council in New York, Antonio Guterres said climate disasters have a negative impact on food production which kindles social unrest. “A global food crisis is creating a hellscape of anger and heartache for many of the world's poorest people. And the climate crisis is accelerating with the deadly force, and last year was the hottest ever.”“Both of these facts undermine peace. “In many places, climate disasters add another dimension.

Democrat Tom Suozzi won back New York’s third congressional district seat in yesterday’s special election to replace George Santos, defeating Republican Mazi Pilip by a greater-than-expected margin of around eight points. The Pilip campaign remained insular — wedded to a campaign strategy that worked for her county legislative campaign in Great Neck and not the district as a whole. By the end of the campaign, Suozzi had a 35 percent advantage over Pilip with Asian voters. His team and aligned PACs flooded Asian voters with handwritten postcards, phone calls, and text messages. Asian voters who had not yet taken part in early voting were sent repeated text messages to turn out at the voting booth.

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In a special congressional election to fill the vacated seat of disgraced Republican George Santos, Ethiopian-born Israeli-American Mazi Pilip, running as a Republican, lost on Tuesday to three-term congressman Tom Suozzi, as Democrats picked up a critical House seat in New York’s 3rd congressional district. The race, won by Suozzi by a larger-than-expected margin, is looked at by many as a bellwether of November’s general election. Rep. Nick LaLota, a Republican first-term U.S. House member from New York’s 1st congressional district, insisted Pilip did not spend the campaign on the defense. She also had a short campaign through which to catch up with Suozzi on name recognition. Suozzi will need to defend his seat again in November, with the special election held to fill out the remainder of Santos’s term.

The project seeks to bolster regulatory frameworks and institutional capacities in Ethiopia’s textile and garment industry. https://t.co/Wi1H3hRs2t — UNIDO (@UNIDO) February 1, 2024The endeavour is expected to spotlight waste management practices within the industry, by prioritising recycling and minimising losses in the production process. The agreement was formally endorsed by Sewasew and Calabro Aurelia Patrizia, UNIDO representative in Ethiopia and Hassan Mohammed, state minister of industry. In 2017, UNIDO signed a € 2.5m project with Italy aimed at capacity building and job creation for youth and women in the textile sector in migration-prone areas of Ethiopia. The project also built the capacities of entrepreneurs and workers within the textile sector and strengthened the know-how of the Ministry of Industry of Ethiopia.

Photo: Dubai International ChamberAddis Abeba – Dubai International Chamber, a key entity under Dubai Chambers, has orchestrated Mars Food Industries’ foray into the Ethiopian market. This marks Mars Food Industries’ inaugural deal on the African continent, facilitated by the chamber’s support for exporting baby food products under its Miralac brand to Ethiopia. According to the press release by the Dubai International Chamber, “the collaboration culminated in a commercial cooperation agreement between Mars Food Industries and Tana Ekt Trading, with Dubai Chambers catalyzing this milestone.”“With the first shipment already en route to Ethiopia, Mars Food Industries remains poised for further expansion across Africa, supported by the Dubai International Chamber’s office in Addis Abeba,” reads the press release. The Dubai International Chamber presently maintains seven representative offices across the African continent, including in Ethiopia, Egypt, Ghana, and Kenya.

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) claimed on Tuesday that federal security forces have killed at least 45 civilians in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. The independent state body also alleged that the civilians had been killed for being supposedly affiliated with the ethnic Amhara armed group known as Fano. Fano emerged as a resistance group in 2015, claiming to fight against the alleged genocide happening against the Amhara people. After the end of the civil war with TPLF, the government headed by Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed failed to continue their alliance with Fano. The US also called for an investigation into the alleged murder of civilians in the Amhara region on Friday.

Haiti which is recovering from a recent spate of violent demonstrations demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister, grapples with violence once again. Hundreds of families have been steadily leaving their homes under heavy shootouts since Sunday as rival gangs fight for control of the capital Port-au-Prince. Onne Monday (Feb. 12), a fresh bout of gang violence had driven new families out of their homes. "They burned houses we don't know if our house was burned. “At least 806 people, not involved in the in the violent exchanges taking place, were killed, injured, or kidnapped in January," Marta Hurtado said.

The airline’s chief executive Mesfin Tasew said the facilities would “upgrade the airport experience of our passengers travelling to and from the city of Gode. It is also a step forward in the work we do to elevate our domestic airport facilities to a higher level”.

Climate activists are continuing their greatest-hits museum tour and have targeted Botticelli’s fifteenth century masterpiece The Birth of Venus at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Their curatorial choice is not lost on observers, with Botticelli’s work also depicting the subject of water, as Venus rises from the sea. The DigestProtestors crashed a talk at New York’s Jewish Museum Tuesday night, featuring Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky and the museum director James Snyder. [The Art Newspaper, France]The Center for Art & Advocacy has announced the six 2024 recipients of its Right of Return Fellowships. The idea to use the wood from the discarded boats to make instruments originally came from inmates trained as luthiers.

Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted former U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., giving a victory speech Tuesday night in a special election for a vacant House seat once held by former Republican Rep. George Santos , who was expelled from Congress in December. Chants of "You support genocide," "Stop supporting genocide" and "Ceasefire now"were heard from protesters in the crowd holding Palestinian flags. The crowd then drowned out the pro-Palestinian protesters by shouting "Suozzi! DEMS FLIP SEAT AS SUOZZI WINS CRUCIAL SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION IN NEW YORKSuozzi was projected Tuesday night to defeat Republican county lawmaker Mazi Pilip to win back his old job. When Suozzi is sworn in following Tuesday's special election, the Republican majority in the House slips to 219-213.

A truck crashed into several passenger vehicles in the Mediterranean province of Alexandria, Egypt, killing at least 15 people, the authorities announced on Wednesday. The accident, which occurred late on Tuesday in the district of Amreya, west of the city of Alexandria, also injured eight people, according to a police report. The truck crashed into four microbuses, a type of public transport minibus widely used in Egypt, according to the report. Ambulances rushed to the scene of the accident and transported the injured to hospitals, according to local media. Road accidents claim thousands of victims every year in Egypt, where transport safety leaves much to be desired.

“We live in days of Great Change, a shuffling of status and symbols,” Dr. Clyde Taylor wrote in 1973. That strong voice of the Black liberation movement took a final breath on January 24. Born Clyde Russell Taylor on July 3, 1931, in Boston, he was the youngest of eight children of his parents, Frank and E. Alice (Tyson) Taylor. It was there that he met several Black literary and political activists, including Toni Morrison and Amiri Baraka. Two years later, Taylor moved to San Francisco and married Martella Wilson.

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In the aftermath of a brutal two-year war that has scarred the Tigray region, Shewit and her sisters, who reside in a rented one-bedroom house, stand as a testament to resilience amidst despair. Students in the Tigray region are among the hardest hit by the drought. According to him, among the 23,000 students enrolled at 46 elementary and secondary schools in the district, 4,449 have dropped out. This adjustment is necessitated by the impracticability of accommodating students beyond the 5th grade due to such constraints. According to these experts, an additional 522 schools in the region remain under the control of Eritrean and Amhara forces, rendering them inaccessible to students in the region.