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According to experts, so much glacier ice is lost in one year that it corresponds to the water consumption of the world’s population within 30 years. The preservation of glacier meltwater is essential for the climate, nature and people.
A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to pull thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers off the job in the United States and around the world. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency have moved swiftly to shutter USAID, AP is reporting.
Chile’s National Center for Artificial Intelligence (Cenia) has announced that it will coordinate a project, named LatamGPT to preserve Latin America’s multicultural identity. Cenia has the support of more than 30 institutions from Latin America and the Caribbean, and more than 60 experts from the region. The project will be launched in mid-2025, the Tico Times reported.
At least 773 people have been killed in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) largest city of Goma and its vicinity within a week, reports Al Jazeera. As always, the civil population carries the burden of the war between army troops and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who captured Goma last week.
The motto of the World Economic Forum 2025 ‘Collaboration for the intelligent age’ makes it clear: the fight against money laundering and financial crime through transparency and secure company identification.
Davos. – In the shadows of the global economy, criminal activities continue to thrive. The scale, sophistication, and impact of corporate fraud have reached unprecedented levels worldwide. The global economy is determined to confront these challenges head-on.
Under the theme “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age,” the World Economic Forum 2025 in Davos focuses on global cooperation and technological innovation. Among the key voices, Alexandre Kech, the newly appointed CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), demonstrates how the fight against financial crime can be revolutionized. GLEIF, a nonprofit organization founded by the Financial Stability Board of the G20, is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.
The Military Government of Mali accuses the Algerian leadership of “persistent interference” in its internal affairs. According to moroccoworldnews.com the Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf had stated that Mali’s military strategy was failing in the fight against terrorism and that a political solution would be necessary. “Mali neither seeks nor accepts lessons from Algeria, which, in recent history, conducted its fight against terrorism in full sovereignty,” the statement of the Mali Foreign Ministry said.
In December last year, the Malian government had summoned its ambassador to Algeria and accused Algiers to host meetings with “terrorists”, that are hostile towards Mali’s government.
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Berlin. – The citizens of the Central African nation Chad are voting on Sunday in parliamentary, regional and municipal elections for the first time in more than a decade. The military government had the elections delayed serveral times, due to «financial problems» and the Covid-19 pandemic. Opposition voices are sceptical whether the Central African country is really on a democratic path.
Officials in the capital N’djamena declared, that the election will formally end a three-year «transitional period» after the death of the former leader Idriss Deby, who died in the 2021. His son forcefully took over. Mahamat Idriss Deby was confirmed as the country’s president after an election in May.
Many opposition party members are boycotting the polls. They called them a «masquerade» and accused the Debry government and his «Patriotic Salvation Movement» (MPS) of trying to legitimise a «political dynasty».
Chad is one of Africa’s poorest countries, ruled by the Deby family since 1991. It is first of the coup-hit states in the Sahel region to hold elections. But human rights groups said without full opposition participation, the election could not be free and fair.
«It will be difficult to have a credible election without inclusivity,» Isa Sanusi, Amnesty International’s country director in Nigeria, told Al Jazeera. «That some are boycotting the election shows that there must be a review of the process and system to ensure that a level playing field is provided to accommodate all Chadians.»
The Elections
According to Al Jazeera,
The Transformers Party, as well as other opposition parties, are boycotting the elections. The argue that the vote will be neither free nor fair.
Drone strikes by the Military Regime have “killed eight Tuareg rebel leaders in the town of Tinzaouatine” in the north of Mali, africanews reports reffering to a rebel spokesman. It has been “the first time since the start of the rebellion in 2012, that so many Taureg leaders have been killed in a single attack,” the story reads.
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UNO braucht 2025 47 Milliarden US-Dollar für humanitäre Hilfe
Genf (epo.de). – Im kommenden Jahr sind rund 305 Millionen Menschen auf humanitäre Hilfe angewiesen, warnen die Vereinten Nationen. In einem globalen Appell für 2025 ruft die UNO die internationalen Geldgeber dazu auf, 47 Milliarden US-Dollar zur Verfügung zu stellen.
Das Geld werde benötigt, um Lebensmittel, Medikamente und andere Hilfsgüter für Menschen in 32 Ländern und Krisengebieten zur Verfügung zu stellen, so die UNO. Besonders bedürftige Länder sind der Sudan, Syrien sowie der Gazastreifen.
UNO-Nothilfekoordinator Tom Fletcher erklärte bei der Vorstellung des Appells in Genf, die Welt stehe in Flammen. Man werde sich darauf konzentrieren müssen, diejenigen zu erreichen, die es am nötigsten hätten. Für gut ein Drittel der Bedürftigen werde man realistischerweise keine Hilfe finanzieren können.
Flechter beklagte, von den für 2024 benötigten 50 Milliarden Dollar seien bis November nur 43 Prozent eingegangen. Dies sei eine der schlechtesten Quoten in der Geschichte der UNO.
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“Since 1972, the U.S Geological Survey Landsat Earth Observation satellites have been providing scientists and policy makers with up to date data on a range of features of Earth’s surface, and the picture being painted is a grim one. Earth’s surface is changing rapidly: polar ice caps are shrinking, highly biodiverse areas are being destroyed , and oceans are growing increasingly polluted, among a raft of other environmental changes.
However, given the volume and availability of data that satellites have captured informing us of the ongoing impacts of human activity on Earth’s surface, an important question has to be asked — why has this knowledge not led to large-scale environmental action?”
